acrophony

Japanese: acrophony
acrophony

… The names of the Northwest Semitic alphabets shown in the table are traditional names in Hebrew. The relationship between the name and the phonetic value of each letter is the so-called acrophony, in which the first sound of the name is the phonetic value, for example, 'āleph (bull) is ' and bēth (house) is b. And since Semitic words always begin with a consonant, according to this system all letters are written with only consonants. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "acrophony" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 表に掲げた北西セム文字の名称は,ヘブライ語における伝統的な名称である。各文字の名称と音価の関係は,いわゆる〈頭音〉方式acrophonyで,例えば’āleph(牡牛)は’,bēth(家)はbというように,名称の最初の単音を音価としている。そしてセム語の単語は必ず子音で始まるから,この方式によれば文字はすべて子音だけを表記することになる。…

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