The Khmer alphabet was formed from an alphasyllabary - Abugida script, a script which combines both letters from an alphabet and syllabic characters, during the 6th century. Khmer script has Brahmic origins and contains thirty three consonants, all with inherent vowels, which is written from left to right.
The Korean language is written in Hangul script, which originates from the Chinese Hanja script. The alphabet consists of twenty four letters which are written horizontally from left to right. Korean is spoken by around 63 million people and is the official language of both North and South Korea. The Mongolian language uses the Uyghur script in it's written form, which is a cursive alphabet of syllabic structure, which is written from left to right in vertical columns, from top to bottom, the only vertically written language in the world to do so.
Uyghur script evolved from the classic Mongol language during the thirteenth century when it was based on Chinese characters, although modern Mongolian now uses the Cyrillic alphabet. Mongolian is spoken by around six million people in central Asia and is the official language of Mongolia. Myanma, more commonly known as Burmese, is a Brahmic language which uses the Abugida Script in it's written form. The script consists of thirty three letters and four digits which are written from left to right.
The Nepalese language is written in Devengari script, which originates from the ancient Sanskrit script. The Devengari script uses around one hundred basic letter forms which are all syllabic and written from left to right.
Nepali is spoken by around thirteen million people in Bhutan, Myanmar and India and is the official language of Nepal. Pashtu is the main language spoken in Afghanistan. The language in it's written form uses the Naskh script derived from Arabic. The language has forty five letters and is written horizontally from right to left.
Pashtu is spoken by around sixty million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The written form of Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, an alphabet originally formed from classical Greek. The Cyrillic alphabet has forty eight letters which are written horizontally from left to right, which has both upper and lower case letters.
Russian is spoken by around one hundred and forty four million people and Cyrillic script is used in eight Slavic languages and eleven non Slavic languages. Russian is the official language of Russia and one of the six official languages of the UN. Sanskrit is the forerunner of most written forms of Indian languages and is derived from the fourth century Brahmi or Indic scripts.
Sanskrit uses a modern day Devengari script which is used as the liturgical language of the Hinduism religion and the scholarly language of Jainism and Buddhism. At two thousand years old Tamil is the world's longest surviving, classical language which still remains in it's authentic and original form. Tamil is a language of the Dravidian language group which uses the Brahmi script in it's written form. Tamil script consists of thirty letters which are written horizontally from left to right.
Tamil is spoken by around 85 million people as the national language of Sri Lanka, one of the official languages of Singapore and as a minority language in India and Malaysia. The Tibetan language is written in an alphasyllabic - Abugida script which originates from the ancient Indic script. The alphabet consists of thirty five letters which are written from left to right. If you allow proper names, the town in central Massachusetts: Worcester.
Why is P silent in pneumonia? Often silent letters in English are actually diacritic letters. This means that rather than being pronounced, they change the pronunciation of another syllable.
Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home What countries use symbols instead of letters? Ben Davis May 16, What countries use symbols instead of letters? Which language does not use an alphabet? The script for Khmer, the national language of Cambodia, has a lot of angled hooks on its top, like little hands gesturing "Goodbye! Its letters have lots of lovely little loops, and some have bigger flatter loops on top too.
Most of its letters have one tight little loop at the end, as though they're tied Thai'd to something. Vietnamese used to use it; Korean still does in some contexts; and Japanese uses it too, but augments it with two other writing systems.
There are actually two versions of the Chinese characters now; in the People's Republic of China, some characters have been simplified, while in Taiwan and some other places, the traditional forms remain. It shows up often because it's an important grammatical particle pronounced "no". It's round, which Chinese characters never are. It's part of the hiragana character set, which is unique to Japanese. It stands for the sound "tsu. It is designed to indicate the shape and position of the lips and tongue for the different sounds that combine into a syllable.
Look for characters made up of combinations of circles, straight lines, and upward points. Mongolian: Mongolian tends to use the Cyrillic alphabet now, but you might still see the Mongolian script on signs, books, CDs, and similar display items.
It is extremely distinctive, because it is written vertically, top to bottom, and with a line down the right side. It's vaguely reminiscent of very sharp Arabic writing turned on its side, or the mane of a wild horse.
What you may not know is that it is used by many other languages, most of which are not even related to Arabic. Turkish used to be written with the Arabic script too, but now it uses a version of Latin. Since these languages all have different sound systems to Arabic, they have added and modified characters that can tell you right away what language you're looking at — that is, if you're familiar with the Arabic script.
If you're not, it might be too much to get a grip on, especially since each character has four different forms depending on where it is in a word.
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