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Questions which apply solely or mostly to the written forms of languages as opposed to their spoken forms.
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Help identify unknown language
It's a Buddhist mantra Om mani padme hum in Sanskrit written in the Tibetan script.
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Most succinct written language
The number of the symbols a written language uses is inversely proportional to the length of the text in that language, the more symbols a language has, the shorter texts are. This is true for any not …
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What language is this and what does it mean in English?
Yes, it's English written in Tolkien's Tengwar, and the text is written with lots of mistakes and discrepancies, still it's obvious it is intended to be read as:
My heart is not whole, for you hol …
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Do written languages evolve along the lines of the script?
Russian is an example of such a language.
In Russian there are two distinct letters e and ё, after a consonant letter e is pronounced as ['e] and ё as ['o], the apostrophe means the preceding consona …
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Please help me identify this language (image)
@prash is right, that is Malayalam, and the text is upside down, it reads "mādhavi", മാധവി, which is most likely a female name.
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Possible methods of input for languages with a lot of diacritic characters
The easiest way to solve your problem is to create your own keyboard layout (it applies if you use MS Windows, or just google the phrase for other platforms). You can use Latvian keyboard layout as a …
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What languages are these?
Leftmost: Belarusian.
1st panel: Bulgarian, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Macedonian, Mongolian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian.
2nd panel: Hebrew, Uyghur, Urdu, Arabic, Pashto, Farsi, Tigrinya, …
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Are there languages where a change of character casing can lead to a different meaning of a ...
The Japanese Kana alphabets, Hiragana and Katakana, also have a similar distinction of their letters, big vs. small, but in Kana this distinction is used for quite a different purpose than marking the …
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How does one learn the meaning of a new symbol in Chinese?
It's very easy to find a Chinese character in a dictionary even if it isn's known to you and you don't know its pronunciation. Naturally, to do that you've got to know how to use Chinese dictionaries. …
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Would someone be able to identify this language and translate the text to english?
I rotated your image 180°. The letters are not Devanagari, they are Tibetan, and the language is Sanskrit, it is the famous Buddhist mantra Om mani padme hum, read about its meaning here: http://en.wi …
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Books on historical writing systems
There are many excellent books on the Turkic Runic script in Russian.For example:
The two fundamental books by Sergey Malov (1880–1957), a great Russian Turkologist, a brilliant expert on Turkic Runes …
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Is there a long list of languages whose writing systems don't use spaces?
In the Old Ethiopic language Ge'ez a double dot (:) was used to separate words. The Modern Amkharic language of Ethiopia also uses the double dot, although spaces are now used increasingly.
The Nasta …
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Beta vs eszett character difference
There are at least 2 features of eszett that differ it from beta:
the short dash-like horizontal stroke protruding to the left from the vertical spine of eszett, which is never present in beta;
the c …
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