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What is an orthography?

What is an orthography? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The study of correct spelling according to established usage.
  2. The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
  3. Spelling; the method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols.
  4. (architecture) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.
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Immediately after their arrival in 1820, the missionaries studied the Hawaiian language, analyzed it, and in 1826 established its orthography.
The name of the organization created to further Basic, the Orthological Institute, echoes such terms as orthodoxy, orthography, and orthoepy.
The combination of alphabetic orthography and Google is an interesting new tool for language identification!
The WASPT has several sections, including reading comprehension, vocabulary, orthography and stress mark, and writing composition.
Thurstan Peter's transcript appears to be reasonably accurate as regards spelling and orthography.
This does not deny the importance of work by linguists on problems of orthography.

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