Meaning of orthotactics | Babel Free

Definitions

The restrictions a language applies to the positions and patterns of graphemes in written words.

uncountable

Examples

“The orthotactics of Spanish usually use the letter u after the letter g to signal a hard g, whereas the orthotactics of Italian usually use the letter h for that purpose.”

“The name a chung is a late, secondary invention of probable non-Tibetan origin, and is therefore not found in the Tibetan texts on orthography and orthotactics' […]”

“[…] orthotactics defined as abstracting permissible and probable letter sequences, patterns, and positions in written words […]”

CEFR level