Orthography

An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis. Most national and international languages have an established writing system that has undergone substantial standardization, thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken language. These processes can fossilize pronunciation patterns that are no longer routinely observed in speech (e.g.

Extends: Orthography, [Applied linguistics](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Applied linguistics), Language, [Linguistics terminology](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Linguistics terminology)