Questions tagged [writing-systems]
A writing system is a system to record spoken language visible on a permanent medium.
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Does the Rejang language have a Latin orthography in use?
There is a Malayo-Polynesian language in Bengkulu, Indonesia with about 350,000 speakers called Rejang, Redjang, or Rejangese.
It has its own native Brahmic abugida.
But I'm wondering if it also ...
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A spectral analysis of Hebrew pronunciation, looking for source
I recently was shown this article that claims that the Hebrew alphabet, when viewed in what appears to be a spectrogram, the actual frequencies in which the letter hits creates a shape of the physical ...
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Possible methods of input for languages with a lot of diacritic characters
I'm afraid this question may be closed as off topic, but I am struggling to find a more applicable stack to ask this in.
I am in the very early stages of studying Babylonian, and I am struggling with ...
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Are there any words, morphemes, or particles in any Chinese / Sinitic languages or dialects which don't have a set Hanzi character?
I am pretty sure that some of the spoken varieties of modern Sinitic languages include words, morphemes, and/or particles which don't have a set written form.
Now I'm aware that some words or ...
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On Lao triphthongs / tones / orthography
Information on the Lao language is a bit patchy, especially when you start getting a little deeper and find gaps, inconsistencies, and contradictions in and between sources on the Internet.
Lao vowel ...
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Please help me identify this language (image) [closed]
I found this inscription on something I recently purchased, not sure what it is. Can you please help identify it?
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Origin of Alphabetic/Phonemic Scripts
Dixon (the Australianist) has claimed that the Phoenician/Canaanite script is the ultimate source of all known alphabetic (purely essentially-phonemic) scripts on Earth; all other scripts are not ...
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Was there an evolution of the Greek alphabet in the Middle East?
I recently visited Jordan and noticed that many mosaic are commented
with included text. The text seems mostly ancient Greek alphabet, but
it also contains non Greek characters such as C, obviously
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What was the most usual and most recent system of writing Korean without any hangul at all?
It's proving quite difficult to learn some of the facts about written Korean before hangul was given official status by the government.
We know that metal movable type printing was inventing in Korea ...
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Is Stephen Bax' partial decoding of the Voynich Manuscript plausible?
Having browsed Stephen Bax' paper "A proposed partial decoding of the Voynich script" (available here), as a scientist in the natural sciences (physics, mathematics), I find his proposed decoding of ...
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Can the Chinese script be used to record non-Chinese languages?
I know of at least 3 countries in the Sinosphere that have historically used the Chinese script (or scripts derived from it) - Vietnam, Korea, and Japan.
So how did it work? Did they use it to read ...
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Is there a long list of languages whose writing systems don't use spaces?
Some languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Khmer use writing systems that don't use spaces.
What are other such languages?
Is there a list of these languages?
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Number of languages without a writing system
Is there some data about how many languages exist with or without a writing system? Etnologue enumerates about 6800 living languages and for each language it registers writing systems the language ...
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Romanization - good or bad? [closed]
Thank you so much for all the replies. I'm new to this site and trying to find my way around here. I apologize if my question hadn't come across as properly phrased in accordance to policy this of ...
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Ideally phonemic writing systems? [duplicate]
I am looking for languages with writing systems that are almost completely ideally phonemic (i.e. no silent letters and an unambiguous one-to-one correspondence between the letters and the phonemes). ...
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If the Arabic script is suited to Arabic grammar, how do speakers of non-Semitic languages cope with it?
The Arabic script is an Abjad writing system or consonantal alphabet. Most letters stand for a consonant, and short vowels are usually not indicated (but can exceptionally be indicated with diacritic ...
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What is a term for the use of two scripts in writing?
What is the best term to describe the following sentence?
I live in ē¾å½.
I've heard the term macaronic used to describe a mix of languages that use Roman script, but is there a more specific term ...
