Timeline for How many people of the world does the "switch language" icon cover?
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| Apr 24, 2023 at 11:51 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I don’t know much about Arabic, so I can’t answer that. But although ʾalif is the first in the alphabet and possibly does have some sort of mental ‘priority’, I would think it’s probably not the best choice: its isolated form is just a vertical stroke, which is not very recognisable, iconographically. ⟨A⟩ of course has the added advantage that it’s one of the few shapes common to Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Perhaps ع ʿayn could work, being more distinct in shape and also the first letter of the word ‘Arab[ia/ic]’. | |
| Apr 24, 2023 at 5:27 | comment | added | James K | I think that is a choice for graphic designers, | |
| Apr 24, 2023 at 3:05 | comment | added | Nacht | @JanusBahsJacquet Which Arabic character should be chosen? Alif? Is that related to language in the same way that A is for English speakers (simply by being sequentially first, and thus learned by children first), or 文 is for Chinese speakers? Its shape seems somewhat non-descript to me, unfortunately. | |
| Apr 24, 2023 at 2:23 | vote | accept | Nacht | ||
| Apr 23, 2023 at 23:07 | comment | added | Nacht | Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for! | |
| Apr 23, 2023 at 11:38 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Arabic would surely be the way to go. Variations of the script is used nationally/officially for all variants of Arabic, as well as Urdu, Pashto, Farsi, Uyghur, secondarily for Malaysian Malay, and a slew of other, smaller languages. An Arabic letter shared by all variants would probably be meaningful to something like another 1.5 billion people. | |
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| Apr 22, 2023 at 19:38 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |