Relating to a system of writing where symbols represent words that sound like their names, rather than individual sounds or meanings.
From Greek akron (peak, extremity) + phonē (sound), coined in the 19th century to describe ancient writing systems like early alphabets where letter names contained the sound they represented.
The Hebrew letter 'aleph' actually means 'ox'—and if you look at its ancient form, it kind of looks like an ox's head! Acrophonic systems are basically visual puns that became an alphabet.
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