Heterogram (linguistics)
A heterogram (also allogram ) in the understanding of linguistics and xenography (the customer of foreign writing systems) is a word or a syntagm whose spelling is transferred from one language (source language) to another (the target language) to become the equivalent of the target language to write. It is spelled “differently” than pronounced, in that the word or syntagm is written in the source language but pronounced the equivalent of the target language.
Heterograms play an important role in the writing of oriental languages of older historical epochs (e.g. Middle Persian ), while in modern times they occur in Western languages particularly when abbreviations are borrowed. For example, the Latin abbreviation “etc.” (“et cetera”) is still widely used when writing German texts, but is sometimes replaced by the German equivalent “and so on” when reading aloud; Similarly, in English the written abbreviation “ie” (for Latin “id est”) is regularly replaced in pronunciation by the English equivalent “that is”.
literature
- Brockhaus encyclopedia . Volume 1: A-APT. 19th edition. FA Brockhaus, Mannheim 1986, p. 393 sv allogram, heterogram .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Heterogram in the Universal Lexicon. Retrieved November 19, 2014 .