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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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And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in his orthography, or rather in his cacography.
In its orthography, German gives an initial capital letter to its nouns, a practice common in English until the mid eighteenth century.
The existence of a standardized orthography for either Yao or Makonde is unknown to us as of this writing.
The papyrus fragments consistently reflect the Boeotian orthography of the late 3rd cent.
This does not deny the importance of work by linguists on problems of orthography.
Thurstan Peter's transcript appears to be reasonably accurate as regards spelling and orthography.

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