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1. Abugida

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   Abugidas are prevalent across South, Southeast, and parts of East Asia, as well as in the Horn of Africa. The classification of a script as an abugida rather than an alphabet or syllabary is sometimes problematic, leading to common miscategorizations in introductory texts.
   For example, the Hangul script of Korean is frequently cited incorrectly as an abugida due to the visual grouping of its components into syllable blocks. However, Hangul is structurally a true alphabet where vowel and consonant letters are freely combined within the block, a system often termed a *featu…