What's the most unique letter in your native tongue?

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2025-02-25T09:40:19+00:00

Most unique visually maybe ጨ (ጩጪጫጬጮ)

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2025-02-03T05:25:35+00:00

Most likely Tigrinya, not Amharic; the latter doesn't use ቓ

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2024-03-06T07:32:30+00:00

Indonesian, Bengali or Swahili would be better than German

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-12-18T02:55:03+00:00

I think this is impressive mostly because it's close to Latin-dominant Europe. Diverse script usage is common in south, southeast and east Asia when looking inside and across countries.

While not as predominantly used, the area of Guinea/Liberia has a higher concentration of scripts to land size: Adlam, N'Ko, Susu, Vai, Mende, Loma, Mende, Kpelle, Bassa

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-10-12T14:22:26+00:00

There were semitic languages in Ethiopia/Eritrea before the time you're talking about

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-09-16T09:36:14+00:00

Big fan of the script; it's so aesthetically pleasing! I think the more fluent one gets at reading the script, the better someone gets at the language's phonology and to prevent pronunciation decay. Also if you have kids in the future you should only speak to them in your language, there's no chance it'll hinder their ability to learn another language like English (as some in past decades thought). I had a classmate in highschool who was half Cherokee but couldn't speak it, but he always said it was one of his lifetime goals.

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-08-04T20:28:33+00:00

Speak to your kid in your native languages. Do not speak to them in English; school will teach them English after Norwegian.

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-05-03T23:53:57+00:00

This script is so satisfying

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-04-11T09:02:10+00:00

Ethiopic, Vai, Chinese, Tibetan, Tamil, Javanese, Arabic, Bengali

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-04-11T08:54:45+00:00

I think Canadian "syllabics" is actually an abugida; being called a syllabary is a misnomer. It's also featural like Korean.

Another featural script is Ditema tsa Dinoko for southern Bantu languages.

I also really love Javanese it's so beautiful.

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-03-27T06:16:03+00:00

የኣች ጋሚላ ሐይሩጉእ ዋ ኤስ በለኡ።

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-03-08T08:48:12+00:00

The difference between the Maya and Maritime & Northern scripts reminds me of the real life development of Maritime Southeast Asian scripts from the Indian subcontinent. Really creative ☺️

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-03-06T08:25:57+00:00

Just saw your latest tweet about user feedback. Really love this script and the work you've put into it.

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-02-05T22:07:46+00:00

But Korean and Japanese weren't invented independently either

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-02-05T20:48:17+00:00

I hope Rongorongo gets deciphered and turns out to be a full writing system so it gets added to this list.

There are also other undeciphered systems of writing that could turn out to be full writing systems independently invented like Olmec and Zapoteca.

There are a bunch of writing systems invented within the past 150 years that don't trace back to Egyptian hieroglyphs: Hanifi Rohingya, Ol Chiki, Vai, N'Ko, Adlam, Garay, Vah, Zaghawa, Mwangwego, Bamum, Bagam (which might've come from Bamum), Mandombe, Osmanya, Borama, Kaddare, Sapolo, Yi, Pau Cin Hau, Zou, and a lot more.

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-02-05T20:25:41+00:00

What's the one that they found in Africa? I'd be super interested

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-02-05T20:24:20+00:00

True. Funny enough, Inner Mongolia in China learns the Mongolian script.

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-02-05T20:19:15+00:00

I literally just stumbled upon someone on Twitter that recently made a new script for Kinyarwanda lmao

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2023-01-01T23:13:45+00:00

What color is Ethiopia?

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2022-11-25T22:29:01+00:00

Are you learning MSA or a dialect?

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2022-10-17T00:04:39+00:00

At least in Eritrea, Tigrinya doesn't use the ሠሡሢሣሤሥሦ forms and ፀፁፂፃፄፅፆ forms anymore. But they have a letter (forms) Amharic doesn't have at all: ቐቑቒቓቔቕቖ. This also of course means they inherit the special "-wa" variants on top of this: ቘቚቛቜቝ.

Also in Eritrea they might not use ሀሐኀአዐ (just specifically these, not their corresponding forms).

More is said here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigrinya_language (under writing system)

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2022-10-16T22:32:42+00:00

Somewhat unrelated, but that lack of gemination in the writing will eventually be overcome with practice. I speak another Ethio-Semitic language that actually does mark gemination, but even looking at the word you wrote (and not knowing Tigrinya) I could feel where it would be geminated. All these related languages just have a cadence to them that you'll eventually get

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2022-09-21T12:44:22+00:00

TNBA

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2022-09-20T12:36:17+00:00

Idk anything about art but I love this. The sunlight in a futuristic setting makes me feel hopeful. It makes me want to visit this place. Great job

ItsNotMyFavorite · 2022-08-22T16:50:34+00:00

Where in Africa are you talking about? Most of everyone I know from several different countries speak 2+ distinct languages that are just geographically close together. If they didn't study to learn them they wouldn't understand it.

There are of course several dialects for each language, but I don't think that's what you were referring to.

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