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What is the noun for orthographies?

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orthography
  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.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The English teacher emphasized the importance of orthography by teaching her students the correct arrangement of letters in words and helping them improve their spelling skills.”
      “In modern Paraguayan orthography, the nasal vowels are represented with the nasal tilde over the oral version of the vowel.”
      “The papyrus fragments consistently reflect the Boeotian orthography of the late 3rd cent.”
orthographer
  1. Someone who devises an orthography.
  2. (informal) Someone who is knowledgeable in spelling rules; someone who spells words correctly.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The World, Feb. 16, 1881 But who could possibly have supposed an orthographer loose!”
orthograph
  1. An orthographic projection.
orthographers
  1. plural of orthographer
orthographies
  1. plural of orthography
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Although nineteenth-century missionaries created orthographies and dictionaries for some of the languages, indigenous literature is mostly oral.”
      “Those orthographies made it possible to write Chinese phonetically and to write spoken Japanese terms that had no equivalent Chinese characters.”
      “His objective is to promote, wherever possible, standardization of orthographies across Nilo-Saharan.”
orthographs
  1. plural of orthograph
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