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Q: What fraction of English alphabet is the set of vowels?
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What 5 of these plus 21 of another thing make up a common set?

The 5 are regular vowels, and with 21 consonants create the alphabet.


Why is the Greek alphabet so different from the English alphabet?

Hieroglyphics have one set of characters (among many) that represent phonetic consonant sounds, similar to the Latin alphabet. The difference is, the Hieroglyphic "alphabet" has no vowels, other than semivowels such as W and Y. The Hieroglyphic alphabet also contains a set of characters that each represent 2 consonants, and another set that represent 3 consonants. There are also thousands of characters that represent whole words.


What does each word in the alphabet mean?

Clarification needed. An alphabet is a complete set of letters in a language. The English alphabet is ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. This is not in the word 'computer'. If you are asking what the letters in the word 'computer' stand for--they stand for sounds and units of meaning in the English language.


What does each alphabet mean in the word computer?

Clarification needed. An alphabet is a complete set of letters in a language. The English alphabet is ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. This is not in the word 'computer'. If you are asking what the letters in the word 'computer' stand for--they stand for sounds and units of meaning in the English language.


What are not well defined of a set?

Elements that have to be defined by personal judgement. Such as the set ofgreat songs is not well-defined. But the set of the English alphabet is well-defined.


How did the alphabet originate?

The first semi-phonetic writing system was a set of 24 symbols used in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. The Phoenicians were the first to use only phonetic symbols. They had an alphabet of 22 consonants, but the vowels were not written. The Greeks were the first use us phonetic symbols for all the sounds of a language (the first pure alphabet)


How many 4 letter combinations containing 3 consonants and 1 vowel can be made from this set if all the letters reload in a combination must be unique?

Assuming the mathematical definition of "combination" (ie unordered sets) and the standard 26 letter Latin Alphabet as used by English: There are 5 vowels and 21 consonants, giving: For each vowel: a choice of 3 consonants from 21, giving 5 x 21 C 3 = 5 x (21x20x19)/(3x2x1) = 6650 combinations [Other languages have different size alphabets and different vowel/consonants (eg Welsh, which uses the Latin Alphabet characters, has 7 vowels and 23 consonants.)] If you have a subset of the full Latin Alphabet, or another Alphabet, then you'll need to supply the set of letters for which you wish an answer.


How do you write a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z in Russian?

In your question you list the Latin alphabet, the set of 26 letters used by several languages including English. Present-day Russian is written in a version of the Cyrillic alphabet (develped by Saint Cyril) with about 32 letters. There are more than 5 vowels because vowels have both a "hard" and a "soft" sound. There were additional letters that were once used, but were eliminated in the early 20th Century. There are also other languages using the alphabet that might not have exactly the same set of letters. You can see the shapes of the letters by gong to wikipedia.org and searching for "Russian alphabet" (for the letter set used specificaly in Russian) or "Cyrillic Script" (for more samples, including some used by languages other than Russian).


What is the seventh letter in the Chinese alphabet?

There is no alphabet in the Chinese language, unlike English or even Korean or Japanese (and even Korean and Japanese have no set order for their 'alphabet'), as Chinese language is simply written with different strokes put together. You might find websites that give you the way English alphabets might be written in Chinese, phonetic-wise, but that is only how we would pronounce English alphabets in Chinese phonetically, and not the Chinese alphabet. :)


What are not well defined elements of a set?

Elements that have to be defined by personal judgement. Such as the set ofgreat songs is not well-defined. But the set of the English alphabet is well-defined.


What does it mean to say that set A is a subset of set B?

It means that everything in Set A in part of Set B An example would be: Set A = The Vowels in the alphabet = (A, E, I , O , U) Set B = All the letters in the Alphabet = (A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) As all of the elements (parts) in Set A are also found in Set B along with others, Set A is said to be a Sub Part of Set B


What is a set of letters that can be used to form words in written language?

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