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@mrmimeisfunny Жыл бұрын
You didn't mention that the reason Sequoyah's script looks like he was illiterate and just copied letters he thought looked nice. Was because he was illiterate and just copied letters he thought looked nice.
@DigawonisgiTsugalogaproject
Жыл бұрын
He wasn't completely illiterate, he could recognize some words spelled out, but not enough to understand how they function. He actually invented numerals first which were partially inspired by devengari in shape if I remember correctly. Then he developed the original "cursive" script. which had a big touch from Arabic but he had to change it to fit the printing press, sooooo Ꭰ is a Ꭱ is e etc etc etc etc. :)
@efectovogel8295
Жыл бұрын
Also because letters similar to the Latin ones were cheaper to print afaik
@landon8214
Жыл бұрын
@Yona I thought numbers were arabic? Not a linguistics nerd so wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong
@jaredwoods2361
Жыл бұрын
@@landon8214 you're correct, technically-- the above post meant that, when Sequoyah was creating his aplhabet, he started with the numbers first, then the letters. The Arabs still "invented" our number system... Although the Sumerians invented the "first" known number system.
@landon8214
Жыл бұрын
@@jaredwoods2361 ah that makes more sense
@lowellcunningham33322 жыл бұрын
The Mongolian script is pretty cool, but Tibetan is even cooler!
@thediaxd3747
2 жыл бұрын
You meant arabic? 😎 مشالله
@fanaticofmetal
2 жыл бұрын
@@thediaxd3747 It's a cool script but not even near to the ones in the vid
@nydap5506
Жыл бұрын
Their spelling tho
@msruag
Жыл бұрын
@@thediaxd3747 it's spelled "ماشاء الله" lmao
@tanjunjie5588
Жыл бұрын
I love Mongolian script too it looks cool and relatively easy to write! Tibetan, well as per mentioned the spelling rule is hard to get your head around at first but there are certain rules to stop it from going TOO wild, so... with some practice, it's good.
@Zapatero0782 жыл бұрын
10) 0:12 Gothic 9) 0:52 Katakana 8) 1:17 Futhorc 7) 1:48 Brahmi 6) 2:08 Armenian 5) 2:55 Ancient South Arabian 4) 3:24 Canadian Syllabic 3) 3:56 Cherokee 2) 5:02 Ogham 1) 5:37 HENTAIGANA 🐙🐙🐙
@sandrocottusrex7108
Жыл бұрын
(১) বাংলা
@ElectrostatiCrow
Жыл бұрын
What are you doing step alphabet?
@ChaseTOM4
Жыл бұрын
1 หาว
@RagTheOne721
Жыл бұрын
hentai means evolution
@Zapatero078
Жыл бұрын
@@RagTheOne721 yeah, "change of stage"
@benseac Жыл бұрын
My personal favorite is Georgian, followed closely by Hangul. I recently came across the Canadian script a few months ago and really like how it looks.
@caroline10081
Жыл бұрын
The Inuit languages are official languages in Nunavut, a Canadian northern territory. In the south, I often hear land acknowledgements when we gather. For example, the last conference I went to, we were on the land of the Anishinaabe Peoples and the Haudenosaunee Peoples. There is an official definition of "Indian" in Canada which refers to the aboriginal peoples. People from India are called South Asians. I am an immigrant to Canada.
@DubmanicGetFlazed
Жыл бұрын
Mkhedruli absolutly Goat hands down aesthetic
@honeycomblord9384
7 ай бұрын
Georgian looks like it came straight from Middle Earth, and I love it for that.
@L1M.L4M Жыл бұрын
I think IPA is interesting, mostly because almost every sound that can be made by a human has a symbol.
@livedandletdie
Жыл бұрын
Not really, there's a lot of sounds that require a lot of symbols. Even such a simple word as Swedish Oro(anxiety) is weird in IPA [²ɯᵝːrɯᵝː] the only simple part is the r. I'm from Sweden and I can't say it. Well I don't speak standard Swedish so perhaps that's why...
@jonasarnesen6825
Жыл бұрын
What about Whisteling in languages?
@L1M.L4M
Жыл бұрын
@@jonasarnesen6825 does it have a script?
@jonasarnesen6825
Жыл бұрын
@@L1M.L4M I don't know. But it's a possible feature to be included. I'd also be amazing being capable of phonetically reading whistle tones in languages or languages which basically are made up by whistling. And to not include such when trying to contain all sounds a language can have is langosism.
@SmolYui
Жыл бұрын
isn't one of the whistling languages spanish? in the canary islands if i remember
@kaengurus.sind.genossen2 жыл бұрын
I agree, we should bring back the Gothic script
@hanskotto8630
2 жыл бұрын
The Gothic alphabet is actually used by the modern gothic revival community. The use of the so called Ahsabairka is sadly hindered by Unicode not supporting a lowercase and the lack of quality fonts out there.
@jangamecuber
2 жыл бұрын
*𐌲𐍉𐌸𐌹𐌺
@voxtur__7
Жыл бұрын
And the Anglo-Saxon runes!!
@Emily-ox6yn Жыл бұрын
In my opinion, one of the most underrrated writing systems is Mandombe. It's used to write 4 of the languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Kokongo, Tshiluba, Lingala, and Swahili. I really like how geometric its characters are, and the way it's constructed. It was invented in the 1970's by one guy who claimed that it was revealed to him in a dream. I recommend looking it up, the story behind it is really interesting!
@artlover5060
Жыл бұрын
I looked it up and it's absolutely mesmerizing.
@Emily-ox6yn
Жыл бұрын
@@artlover5060 It really is isn't it? Glad someone else appreciates it!
@chinmayjoshi3592 Жыл бұрын
My top ten most favourite scripts: 10. hangeul script: It is by all standards, the best writing system for the korean language and the best writing system ever devised. 9. aramaic script: the compact, flowing and mystical aesthetic is unmatched. I personally think it is the best abjad there is. 8. tengwar: the elven script developed by JRR Tolkien. Enough said. 7. Ancient greek script: Just something about the fluidity of the alphabets. Also the diacritics and the terminal sigma. 6. The latin script: far more versatile than people give it credit for. It has stood the test of time. 5. Hentai-kana: Fell in love with this one after seeing a calligraphy video on meiji era names of girls in japanese. It just looks brilliant, each syllable is a work of art. 4. Balinese: the unusual mix of regularity and flow. It feels free flowing and constrained at the same time. It is simply a well formed script. 3. cursive cyrillic: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 2. Devanagari: It is simple personal bias, and also the fact that it can be used for almost every Indian language without much modification. 1.5!!! Cursive bichig: It is art. See it. 1. Modi: a compact CURSIVE abugida (direct descendant of devanagari). Also the original script for my mother tongue.
@Aditya-te7oo
Жыл бұрын
Chinmay Joshi I guess you are a native Marathi speaker.
@livedandletdie
Жыл бұрын
Cursive Cyrillic is cursed as f. ш л и ж х щ ц й pretty much look the same... So one gets a headache when looking at it.
@chinmayjoshi3592
Жыл бұрын
@@livedandletdie not if you don't understand it though 😛 , and I actually have tried making con-scripts myself, and it is a serious pain to come up with cursive forms. So I pretty much revere anything cursive, or any script that looks flowy now.
@1amarsandhu
Жыл бұрын
Modi and Gurmukhi are actually better than Devanagri, they both have better cursive flow and Gurmukhi was actually designed to handle the sounds found in all Indian languages, Arabic, Farsi and the tones that are found in Punjabi which is the only tonal Indo European language.
@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN
Жыл бұрын
Korean? 😂😂😂😂. That bish only made for the Korean language, can not write any other language where as scripts like Russian or the Roman alphabet can be used by numerous languages
@pentelegomenon11752 жыл бұрын
I think that Tironian notes is an interesting script, it started out as a normal shorthand but due to being in use for a very long time it actually became a prestige script of sorts, at its peak it had 13 thousand symbols and was used for actual published books with a cleaned-up orthography, and its "&" symbol became widely adopted. I also really like cuneiform, because a language made of indentations in clay seems ridiculously useful to me, you can literally write with no ink or paper and erase letters by just rubbing them out with your finger, and due to having no lines it can be extremely compact, an experienced cuneiform writer could grab a fistful of clay and write like 30 lines of text on it using only a reed stylus. Also, there are these devices called wax tablets that were commonly used in Western civilization from ancient Greek times up until the 1800s, they were like two small picture frames containing a soft wax and binded together like a little book that you could open up and write in using a stylus, similar to a small portable whiteboard; however this took a lot of skill due to Europe's reliance on Phoenician-derived line scripts, I'm actually amazed that we didn't invent our own home-grown cuneiform during this time period. And I would argue that cuneiform is superior even for the ink-and-paper medium: imagine if you had little stamp pads on your fingers representing the different cuneiform marks and you typed letters directly onto the page, so we wouldn't even need to invent pens in order to write, and I bet it's much faster than a pen. We do actually have a modern cuneiform-like script which is called Braille, but it's used only by blind people which is probably why it looks so unattractive (btw I have no doubt that some blind people in ancient Sumeria could read cuneiform, since it's just a series of holes in a clay surface). Speaking of which, imagine if we did all write in Braille, we could read text without even looking at it. And a Kindle wouldn't even need a screen, it could just be a machine with a bunch of dots that pop up, and you can drag your finger across the dots to read while you watch a movie or something. So I kind of like Braille, but I feel that it needs some fixing to be a great script.
@sullivanbell2397
Жыл бұрын
Novel
@tcoren1
Жыл бұрын
Sanskrit looks pretty awesome
@qwertyTRiG
Жыл бұрын
The Tironian et survives in Ireland and Scotland.
@williamwolffgang
Жыл бұрын
@@qwertyTRiG TIL.
@BIG_BADASS5 ай бұрын
I think you missed a few... The Sinhalese letter ඝ (gha) Sinhalese letter ස (sa) Sinhalese letter ය (ya) Sinhalese letter ය්රී (yree) Sinhalese letter ධ (dha) Sinhalese letter ධි (Dhi) Sinhalese letter ධ්රි (Dhri) Sinhalese letter ට්ඨි (tthi) Sinhalese letter ඣ (jha) Sinhalese letter ඞ (Hard 'Da') Sinhalese letter ඩි (Hard 'Di') Sinhalese letter ශ්ර (shra) Sinhalese letter ශ්රී (shree) Sinhalese letter භ (bha) Sinhalese letter භ්ර (bhra) Sinhalese letter ඝ්රා (ghra) Sinhalese letter ක්රි (kri) Sinhalese leter බ (ba) යීධ්ඨිධ්රිසිධිඞට්ඨිජ්කිඣඣස්ක්ස්ය්රී
@BIG_BADASS
5 ай бұрын
ඞ⃤ඩා⃝ඞ⃞ඩා⃟ඞ⃠ඩා⃢ඩාඞ☺︎꫞
@nunyabiznes33 Жыл бұрын
Hangeul is basically a successful constructed script and I love it for that. I also like runes, I read about them in a divination book and just waiting for a trip to the countryside to collect stones for them.
@arta.xshaca
Жыл бұрын
Hangeul to Chinese scripts is like how AI is to humanity.
@D__Ujjwal
9 ай бұрын
This video is about cool looking, not about successful scripts. What do you think of devnagri script, it is also very organised and easy to use
@mollof78932 жыл бұрын
Canadian Script is the coolest because it's used in the Arctic!
@haydend.maniac227
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed it’s cool *happy canadian noises.mp4
@user-mp2tk3pw6j
Жыл бұрын
@@haydend.maniac227 I’m trying to convert it to Sm’algyax and Michif.
@Zultzify
Жыл бұрын
i live near places that have signs in maliseet. god i wish i could learn it!
@jadsel Жыл бұрын
Sequoyah's original Tsalagi syllabary looked very different, and you might want to check that out too. The version still in use came about basically from sending it to the printer's. They could either create totally new type based on his more complex squiggly-looking script, or slightly modify a bunch of characters they already had and go from there. So, the cheaper and easier option won out. At least one pic is available online of a handwritten copy attributed to Sequoyah from a museum collection, showing the original longhand and print forms together. Not much resemblance between them. I actually think the OG version looks way cooler.
@lampboy926 Жыл бұрын
My favourites (Mostly on aesthetic purpose): 10) Latin writting 9) Georgian script 8) Hebrew alphabets 7) Devanagari script 6) Mongolian script 5) Tibetan script 4) Egyptian hieroglyphs 3) Yi script 2) Chinese characters 1) Hangeul (Korean script, which is my motherland's script)
@Brybao
Жыл бұрын
Yi script is strange since it looks a lot like bronze script characters
@RizalBudiLeksono
Жыл бұрын
what is "hindu" script?
@user-mc8wg6qq3b
Жыл бұрын
@@Deepak_Dhakad he probably meant Devanagari one
@RizalBudiLeksono
Жыл бұрын
@@user-mc8wg6qq3b ah okay tq
@lampboy926
Жыл бұрын
Apologies for my misconception. The "Hindu script" was meant for Devanagari script 😅
@niky6266 Жыл бұрын
I'm extremely bias bc I'm a native Russian speaker, so my number 1) is Cyrillic. My favourite alphabet based on it: Serbian Cyrillic and Chukchi Cyrillic 2) Demotic is so PRETTYYY +Egyptian hieroglyphics. I love them. 3) Every Indian script. I love them all 4) Semitic scripts. I love how they represent their root system + they're beautiful 5) Thai
@cazwalt9013
Жыл бұрын
Since you love Cyrillic you should've at least included greek too since it's based on greek
@Jacob.D.
Жыл бұрын
I am a Chinese speaker so I may get biased too. So my #1 is: Russian Cyrillic #2, Mongolian Cyrillic #3, Kazakh Cyrillic ...
@niky6266
Жыл бұрын
@@Jacob.D. Beautiful!
@willyorgy4677
Жыл бұрын
I really like Cyrillic because at least in Russian, the language I’m learning, the lower cases tend to be the same height except for letters like б. It makes it look really neat because they seem like they fit in their own square.
@niky6266
Жыл бұрын
@@willyorgy4677 yeah, true! ❤️
@wyntyrr2 жыл бұрын
No, the coolest writing system is the one and only… *ITHKUIL MORPHOPHONOLOGICAL ABUGIDA*
@fanaticofmetal
2 жыл бұрын
Beside jokes, Tai Viet needs some recognition, it's so elegant
@hypnoskales7069 Жыл бұрын
"Katakana is significantly simpler than hiragana" - that's like saying that upper case letters are significantly simpler than lowercase letters or that one font of the latin alphabet is significantly simpler than another font
@craigime
Жыл бұрын
😂
@nehcooahnait7827
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I knew he would probably bring that kinda stupid argument… tsk
@jordanwardan7588
Жыл бұрын
idk cause katakana is literally simpler than hiragana in that it is made from parts of kanji rather than entire kanji themselves. I had a problem with hentaigana even as a joke being called its own writing system, when all it is is hiragana that didnt make the cut after the 1900 spelling reform. like it's literally the inverse of a writing system lol its a system of what not to write. the literal translation of hentaigana 変体仮名 is "variant/changed body kana" and is a more apt comparison to your comment than katakana imo
@user-mx1rb2vz3v Жыл бұрын
I've watched a video about japanese's writing systems and that sparkled my curiosity, it's been 200 days since I've been studying it non-stop, hiragana looks cute, katakana looks badass and kanji look difficult, the perfect pick for a new language to learn
@beedle5562 жыл бұрын
In cherokee he didn’t make that syllabus. His was all cursive looking but the americans changed it for the news press.(i’m cherokee)
@kinjoko Жыл бұрын
My top 10 favourite scripts: 10) Thai 9) Cyrillic 8) Latin 7) Armenian 6) Sitelen Pona 5) Hanzi (Traditional) 4) Zhuyin 3) Hangeul 2) Katakana 1) Greek
@voskiastudios1936
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cyrillic is awesome
@369tayaholic5
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! We do use traditional Hanzi and Zhuyin in my country
@cosmicqueso3570
Жыл бұрын
ευχαριστώ! όπως αποκαλώ την ελληνική γλώσσα, τον πατέρα της δυτικής γραφής!
@sbclaridge
Жыл бұрын
I'm a huge fan of the Greek alphabet myself. I love the lowercase forms of the letters; they look smoother and sleeker than Latin lowercase characters. I wonder why more languages don't use the Greek alphabet? The only major language to use the Greek alphabet today is Greek itself, but there are some other minor languages spoken in and near Greece that do use the Greek alphabet as well (Arvanitika and Tsakonian mainly), and historically other languages in the eastern Mediterranean region did use the Greek alphabet. I should note that Arvanitika is a dialect of of the Albanian language spoken inside of Greece; otherwise, Albanian uses the Latin alphabet.
@cosmicqueso3570
Жыл бұрын
@@sbclaridge the Greek language has historically not been manipulated to fit other phonetic systems, and given it only has 24 letters total, many languages today can’t fit their sound inventories effectively within even an altered Hellenic script
@qwertyTRiG Жыл бұрын
Sutton SignWriting should be in there. It's really cool. Very distinctive, and also straightforward to read (though I find it harder to write). And it renders a whole massive group of previously unwritten languages writable.
@alexilonopoulos31652 жыл бұрын
I like the aesthetics of N’ko. I have a conscript based on it
@gamermapper
Жыл бұрын
Looks like Arabic that is made to be non cursive lol
@cadynextdoorr Жыл бұрын
5:33 i was hoping you’d mention hangeul. absolute best writing system
@Spectral_RotD2 жыл бұрын
I spent alot of time creating a writing system that I thought was cool. What I didn't think about is how I am going to remember them...
@h-Qalziel Жыл бұрын
Ogham was also used in Scotland to write Pictish. Some of the lines went in different directions to the Irish Ogham scripts but that's just them wanting to be different. Also, since Pictish has gone extinct it's the only examples of what the language was like apart from place names!
@BeneathTheBrightSky Жыл бұрын
Georgian has a nice aesthetic.
@0815Snickersboy Жыл бұрын
I'd like to add some honorable mentions. - Boring Latin (English that does have no special letters) - Spiced up Latin (Like German which has the original latin plus cool bonus letters such as ä ö ü and ß) - Arabic (It looks cool but it is to tiny on computer screens) - Latin++ (The Polish one where they used latin letters but added cool stuff for every letter to work with their language) - Cyrillic (іт юст лукс реалли ґуд анд алсо гас латін леттерс) - Georgian (Looks gorgeous )
@Swastikanothookcross
Жыл бұрын
arabic doesn't look cool. it's trash
@lightflatwhite
10 ай бұрын
as a Pole, THANKS YOU also our language is pretty hard tho
@alrob9301 Жыл бұрын
Þe Engliſh language has þe cooleſt writing ſyſtem if ȝou chuſe to uſe all þe bells & whiſtles þat were ſterilized out by þe printing preſs. It miȝt be odd at firſt, but I find þat þis ſtyle features much more diſtinct overall word ſhapes þan ſtandard orþography. More aſcenders & deſcenders to ſet words apart from each oþer. Plus, þe letter Þ looks really cool, & þis alſo allows Y to act only as a vowel.
@egbront1506
7 ай бұрын
You include ȝogh but no love for ƿynn?
@cheesuschrist4473
6 ай бұрын
I am against the inclusions of long s and the thing that looks like the number 3, but other than that i agree
@elenafari_ Жыл бұрын
my personal favourite is georgian, i love how all the letters look like cute pretzels also as a Guatemalan I'm proud to say we learned how to read mayan numerals at school. it works for nothing but saying "oh, there says 5898" whenever you see ancient stuff at museums, but it's still a dope ability ig
@Pixel_Forge_ Жыл бұрын
I personally love old Norse, it’s not particularly cool to look at, but it sound awesome when spoken.
@cupcakkeisaslayqueen Жыл бұрын
I got so happy when you said Cherokee its one of my favorite writing systems im learning the language!
@canko152 жыл бұрын
You and nativlang are the best linguistics/languages related KZread channels, period
@mimimusa7572 жыл бұрын
As a native Arabic speaker , i love the Arabic script so much , even though alot of westerns always underestimate it by saying it looks like spaghetti whatever , which i see no connection ع ث ل م ن ط ك ي س ش ض و ذ ح ز أ . But as matter of fact it's a very beautiful elegant and the no western script in my opinion comes close to the beauty of Arabic script , especially the Arabic calligraphy is something beyond beautiful . Also u did not have to put the war criminal George bush , he indeed liked the arab to the point of doing war crimes in iraq , that was so insensitive
@a.v.j5664
2 жыл бұрын
Georgian is more beautiful
@mimimusa757
2 жыл бұрын
@@a.v.j5664 that is your opinion . In my opinion Arabic is more beautiful .
@a.v.j5664
2 жыл бұрын
@@mimimusa757 👍
@BeneathTheBrightSky
Жыл бұрын
I agree. Spaghetti doesn't have dots.
@samgyeopsal569
Жыл бұрын
So what if it looks like spaghetti? Spaghetti is good
@yourfellowasian06 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for including Sinhala as an honourable mention (even if it’s a little sus).
@AndIChoseToSpeakFAX2 жыл бұрын
4:29 Amogus said hi
@rvat20032 жыл бұрын
Omg I also love all these scripts. Well maybe just all in existence 😭
@freealter Жыл бұрын
Arabic not being on here is not only apostasy but also a savage underrating of a massively widespread and awesome script
@cumcumcum148 Жыл бұрын
My favourite alphabet is georgian alphabet. It looks super cool, a lot of circles and cute in general
@realutahraptor Жыл бұрын
For Me 10) Greek Alphabet 9) Glagolithic 8) Cypriot 7) Phoenician 6) Archaic Greek 5) Linear A 4) Runic 3) Cuneiform 2) Old Italic 1) Linear B
@rimostle Жыл бұрын
Pretty sad you didn't mention the Tifinagh script its objectively pretty cool.
@RobCamp-rmc_0
Жыл бұрын
Right? If you’re into the Canadian script, why not Tifinagh?
@MemphiStig3 ай бұрын
Right there near the end, and I had to listen several times to be sure, you said number one was "used in Japan until the *earlieth* *twenty* century." That's an easy one to miss. It almost got by me. It's not the usual verbal gaff. Cool video. Haven't heard of some of these. Will have to do some research on them.
@sae2705 Жыл бұрын
I'm glad Mongolian got a special mention at least, I am trying to learn both the language and script and I think it's pretty neat. But some of my own special mentions would go to Phags-pa, Telugu and Georgian. They all look pretty cool IMO. "Hello" in Telugu: హలో "Hello" in Georgian: გამარჯობა I'd show Phags-pa, but I don't think it's supported. And looking at some of the ones on your list, I thought trying to learn Cyrillic was bad enough with Latin-looking letters that sound nothing like the Latin.
@manganesegoblin981 Жыл бұрын
It is criminal that Burmese didn't make it.
@pre-debutera6941 Жыл бұрын
Georgian deserves a spot
@candle61837 ай бұрын
"you want fries with that?" me asf in Cherokee: "G"
@Frahamen Жыл бұрын
I'll add Sundanese. Sure it's mostly replased by the Latin script but it looks like, and I say it totally out of love, how it looks like a generic science fiction "Alienese" script.
@baianomgtow98412 жыл бұрын
Is there any exotic writing system like the one from Kēlen? (I know it's a colang but i just want to know if there is a system near the Kēlen one)
@ConnorQuimby
2 жыл бұрын
I think Maya is actually one of the closest. More so in that it's just super complicated but in a neat way
@baianomgtow9841
2 жыл бұрын
@@ConnorQuimby Thanks, i'm going to research about it
@therajaofashbourne8483 Жыл бұрын
the brahmi script evolved into Siddham an Tibbetan in the east of the subcontinent, which both look insanely cool (also Sylheti Nagri is probs the most underrated south asian script imo lol)
@learnurduwithsara1068 Жыл бұрын
Aethetically I found Hentiagana to be the most apealing.
I think the Georgian alphabet is very cool-looking.
@silverstar8868 Жыл бұрын
Finally, a video talking about how really cool some scripts are
@zakuro8532 Жыл бұрын
My latin handwriting uses fixed symbols for common abbreviations and specific variants of letters wich are word/sentence-position-dependent.
@seneca983 Жыл бұрын
I'm glad that hangul got at least a mention.
@alephomega955 Жыл бұрын
Georgian is also quite cool. It derived from the Greek alphabet as well!
@iksRoald Жыл бұрын
Have you looked at SignWriting? It can write any sign language, and with some ectentions, it van also write dancing, scate boarding and much more. Remember, language is not just speech, signed laguges are languages too, and they can be written. And they do have some cool gramatical features
@boi905 Жыл бұрын
Can’t believe Devanāgari didn’t make the list.
@floridaman318 Жыл бұрын
Celtiberian is pretty neat. It encodes in a single glyph 2 allophonic letters. Like k and g for example, being the same letter.
@theredknight9314 Жыл бұрын
As someone who has also studied Japanese, I prefer hiragana because it’s more loopy and noodle like and is easier to write in and remember and make look nicer.
@graffiti9145 Жыл бұрын
5:49 the WHAT gana?
@artugert Жыл бұрын
How is Chinese Hanzi not even mentioned? In my opinion, it is by far the coolest script in history.
@mjolninja9358 Жыл бұрын
Abugidas, Abjads and Logographic scripts are my favorites.
@seilaessecanalnvaitervideo6414 Жыл бұрын
i see by your number one,you're a man of culture as well
@Weeping-Angel Жыл бұрын
I learned about the Yi people and their script is so cool. Impossible to read though😂
@stratospheric37 Жыл бұрын
sorry but at 5:33 what does natural writing system mean? I wanna know
@AsylumDaemon Жыл бұрын
you guys should look at old turkic script. you'll gonna love it
@PoopickАй бұрын
Awesome video, thanks for making it. How exactly is katakana simpler than hiragana? Its like having the same syllabery but twice in 2 different fonts. Also i like hiragana, katakana is barely used compared to hiragana.
@LS-go1kx Жыл бұрын
5:36 Amogus?
@theidioticbgilson14662 жыл бұрын
𒅴𒂠!
@haydend.maniac227
2 жыл бұрын
BRUH
@jangamecuber
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, B. Gilson
@Zapatero078
2 жыл бұрын
Your mom
@lampboy926
Жыл бұрын
Cuneiform!
@niky6266
Жыл бұрын
Love you
@wynnexed Жыл бұрын
I personally really like Hangul, Ge'ez, and Arabic
@potatoes2721 Жыл бұрын
I've been teaching myself some hentai gana recently. the history behind it is really cool and I want to delve into more of the old manyougana poetry that came from chinese educated japanese poets. also funny name.
@hoi-polloi18632 жыл бұрын
Hmm... no love for good ol' fashioned cursive Latin alphabet? I've always really liked that one, and am sad that few people use it anymore.
@theweirdwolf1877
Жыл бұрын
Few people in America that is. Pretty much everyone else uses it
@hoi-polloi1863
Жыл бұрын
@@theweirdwolf1877 Side-note, have you ever seen Cyrillic cursive? It's a trip!
@user-qq8ry3rr4k Жыл бұрын
I hoped for glagolithic to be on the list
@n0us. Жыл бұрын
I'm a sucker for indian and generally central asian area scrips(even though hindi and begali look completely different from tamil and stuff). Also I love cursive scripts like arabic and mongolian(does that count? idk). Also Oghams super cool great choice for number 2
@livedandletdie
Жыл бұрын
Ogham contrasts so hard against all the cursive scripts that it's hard to not love Ogham.
@SugoDiGatto
Жыл бұрын
தமிழ் is so cool and weirdly easy to learn, abugidas are amazing! Just take a look at knot, butterfly, cow riding a snake, and inductor with a trailer: இ ஐ ஊ ணை, also circles: ஃ ... and then there's kshau: க்ஷௌ
@feather1229
Жыл бұрын
I suggest Malayalam script, you can write almost everything in the script
@salumtheconlang29532 жыл бұрын
laugh in Chinese Characters
@shirokun4742
Жыл бұрын
Hey use mask
@virtuousvibes2852 Жыл бұрын
But seriously, hentaigana is a really beautiful script. Gives that really traditional/archaic feel you know.
@hammou13122 жыл бұрын
I like Tifinagh (See my name? Pretty cool.)
@manlymannysmanymediocremem70262 жыл бұрын
you should check out the samaritan hebrew script, it has diacritics that are just arabic letters and a letter called tit
@grahamh.4230 Жыл бұрын
These are good ones, but Tifinagh (also called the Berber or Amazigh script) and Tibetan (basically Devanagari, but 100 times better) are an easy top two for me. Also, Georgian script > every other Greek derived script.
@oivinf Жыл бұрын
I know you sorta glossed over it by mentioning Brahmi script but I think this video needs at least an honorable mention for THAI! Admittedly the way it functions is lowkey a little dumb, but it looks absolutely beautiful if you ask me
@katynewt2 ай бұрын
Thought Georgian and Hangul would've made the list. They're certainly some of the tidiest writing systems out there. Also, Katakana is only slightly simpler than Hiragana. 😑
@amazingfireboy18482 ай бұрын
I don't know anything about Thai or Hindi other than I really like their letters lol. I also like that smiley-face letter in Japanese.
@rolfmelheim7902 Жыл бұрын
The coolest is by far Chinese because of its long history and all the meaningful information inside each character.
@Rajv44200 Жыл бұрын
Maple syrup on naan got me rolling....🤣🤣🤣😂
@sadmaizie84932 жыл бұрын
No Cyrillic? SAD!
@ConnorQuimby
2 жыл бұрын
I already made a cyrillic video
@professionellerkanal4947
2 жыл бұрын
Cyrillic bad
@txdorovaa
Жыл бұрын
@@professionellerkanal4947 сирилик гуд
@professionellerkanal4947
Жыл бұрын
@@txdorovaa ارابيك باتار
@enqrbit Жыл бұрын
The Ge'ez abugida is still used in Eritrea and Ethiopia. The Ge'ez language is not spoken anymore and is only used by the Church.
@frtzkng3 ай бұрын
It is conjectured that all future human scripts will converge towards Armenian, with how symbols with similar shapes are already found frequently in other scripts
@Zeyede_Siyum Жыл бұрын
3:12 what do you mean was? It is still the most used writing system in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
@marcomartinez1843 Жыл бұрын
For me, my favorite writing systems are: 1. Katakana (and Hiragana) 2.Syriac 3.Cyrillic 4.Baybayin (which might be borrowed from Bhrami script)
@Knightmare20185 ай бұрын
I really think Georgian should have had a place on the list. Very cool script, I’ve copied/taken inspiration from it often
@YuutaShinjou113 Жыл бұрын
Sequoyah's Cherokee alphabet has an Amogus for "hi".
@randomguy65562 жыл бұрын
Ok ive been makeing a con lang. And got my sounds and all. Then decided to make a writing system. And my writing system looks like ogham.
@osker Жыл бұрын
Devanagari script is SO beautiful
@christopherellis2663 Жыл бұрын
Tifinagh and Georgian 🇬🇪
@utubekullanicisi11 ай бұрын
Fun fact: The word 'caracal' that's also used in its scientific name 'caracal caracal' is borrowed from the Turkish name for caracal 'karakulak', which means black ear.
@gegart016 ай бұрын
Կոննոր Քուիմբի, ապրես 😊
@alitopdemir722 Жыл бұрын
Check the Georgian alphabet as well
@vaiyt10 ай бұрын
My personal favorite that didn't make this list is Tifinagh.
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You didn't mention that the reason Sequoyah's script looks like he was illiterate and just copied letters he thought looked nice. Was because he was illiterate and just copied letters he thought looked nice.
@DigawonisgiTsugalogaproject
Жыл бұрын
He wasn't completely illiterate, he could recognize some words spelled out, but not enough to understand how they function. He actually invented numerals first which were partially inspired by devengari in shape if I remember correctly. Then he developed the original "cursive" script. which had a big touch from Arabic but he had to change it to fit the printing press, sooooo Ꭰ is a Ꭱ is e etc etc etc etc. :)
@efectovogel8295
Жыл бұрын
Also because letters similar to the Latin ones were cheaper to print afaik
@landon8214
Жыл бұрын
@Yona I thought numbers were arabic? Not a linguistics nerd so wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong
@jaredwoods2361
Жыл бұрын
@@landon8214 you're correct, technically-- the above post meant that, when Sequoyah was creating his aplhabet, he started with the numbers first, then the letters. The Arabs still "invented" our number system... Although the Sumerians invented the "first" known number system.
@landon8214
Жыл бұрын
@@jaredwoods2361 ah that makes more sense
The Mongolian script is pretty cool, but Tibetan is even cooler!
@thediaxd3747
2 жыл бұрын
You meant arabic? 😎 مشالله
@fanaticofmetal
2 жыл бұрын
@@thediaxd3747 It's a cool script but not even near to the ones in the vid
@nydap5506
Жыл бұрын
Their spelling tho
@msruag
Жыл бұрын
@@thediaxd3747 it's spelled "ماشاء الله" lmao
@tanjunjie5588
Жыл бұрын
I love Mongolian script too it looks cool and relatively easy to write! Tibetan, well as per mentioned the spelling rule is hard to get your head around at first but there are certain rules to stop it from going TOO wild, so... with some practice, it's good.
10) 0:12 Gothic 9) 0:52 Katakana 8) 1:17 Futhorc 7) 1:48 Brahmi 6) 2:08 Armenian 5) 2:55 Ancient South Arabian 4) 3:24 Canadian Syllabic 3) 3:56 Cherokee 2) 5:02 Ogham 1) 5:37 HENTAIGANA 🐙🐙🐙
@sandrocottusrex7108
Жыл бұрын
(১) বাংলা
@ElectrostatiCrow
Жыл бұрын
What are you doing step alphabet?
@ChaseTOM4
Жыл бұрын
1 หาว
@RagTheOne721
Жыл бұрын
hentai means evolution
@Zapatero078
Жыл бұрын
@@RagTheOne721 yeah, "change of stage"
My personal favorite is Georgian, followed closely by Hangul. I recently came across the Canadian script a few months ago and really like how it looks.
@caroline10081
Жыл бұрын
The Inuit languages are official languages in Nunavut, a Canadian northern territory. In the south, I often hear land acknowledgements when we gather. For example, the last conference I went to, we were on the land of the Anishinaabe Peoples and the Haudenosaunee Peoples. There is an official definition of "Indian" in Canada which refers to the aboriginal peoples. People from India are called South Asians. I am an immigrant to Canada.
@DubmanicGetFlazed
Жыл бұрын
Mkhedruli absolutly Goat hands down aesthetic
@honeycomblord9384
7 ай бұрын
Georgian looks like it came straight from Middle Earth, and I love it for that.
I think IPA is interesting, mostly because almost every sound that can be made by a human has a symbol.
@livedandletdie
Жыл бұрын
Not really, there's a lot of sounds that require a lot of symbols. Even such a simple word as Swedish Oro(anxiety) is weird in IPA [²ɯᵝːrɯᵝː] the only simple part is the r. I'm from Sweden and I can't say it. Well I don't speak standard Swedish so perhaps that's why...
@jonasarnesen6825
Жыл бұрын
What about Whisteling in languages?
@L1M.L4M
Жыл бұрын
@@jonasarnesen6825 does it have a script?
@jonasarnesen6825
Жыл бұрын
@@L1M.L4M I don't know. But it's a possible feature to be included. I'd also be amazing being capable of phonetically reading whistle tones in languages or languages which basically are made up by whistling. And to not include such when trying to contain all sounds a language can have is langosism.
@SmolYui
Жыл бұрын
isn't one of the whistling languages spanish? in the canary islands if i remember
I agree, we should bring back the Gothic script
@hanskotto8630
2 жыл бұрын
The Gothic alphabet is actually used by the modern gothic revival community. The use of the so called Ahsabairka is sadly hindered by Unicode not supporting a lowercase and the lack of quality fonts out there.
@jangamecuber
2 жыл бұрын
*𐌲𐍉𐌸𐌹𐌺
@voxtur__7
Жыл бұрын
And the Anglo-Saxon runes!!
In my opinion, one of the most underrrated writing systems is Mandombe. It's used to write 4 of the languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Kokongo, Tshiluba, Lingala, and Swahili. I really like how geometric its characters are, and the way it's constructed. It was invented in the 1970's by one guy who claimed that it was revealed to him in a dream. I recommend looking it up, the story behind it is really interesting!
@artlover5060
Жыл бұрын
I looked it up and it's absolutely mesmerizing.
@Emily-ox6yn
Жыл бұрын
@@artlover5060 It really is isn't it? Glad someone else appreciates it!
My top ten most favourite scripts: 10. hangeul script: It is by all standards, the best writing system for the korean language and the best writing system ever devised. 9. aramaic script: the compact, flowing and mystical aesthetic is unmatched. I personally think it is the best abjad there is. 8. tengwar: the elven script developed by JRR Tolkien. Enough said. 7. Ancient greek script: Just something about the fluidity of the alphabets. Also the diacritics and the terminal sigma. 6. The latin script: far more versatile than people give it credit for. It has stood the test of time. 5. Hentai-kana: Fell in love with this one after seeing a calligraphy video on meiji era names of girls in japanese. It just looks brilliant, each syllable is a work of art. 4. Balinese: the unusual mix of regularity and flow. It feels free flowing and constrained at the same time. It is simply a well formed script. 3. cursive cyrillic: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 2. Devanagari: It is simple personal bias, and also the fact that it can be used for almost every Indian language without much modification. 1.5!!! Cursive bichig: It is art. See it. 1. Modi: a compact CURSIVE abugida (direct descendant of devanagari). Also the original script for my mother tongue.
@Aditya-te7oo
Жыл бұрын
Chinmay Joshi I guess you are a native Marathi speaker.
@livedandletdie
Жыл бұрын
Cursive Cyrillic is cursed as f. ш л и ж х щ ц й pretty much look the same... So one gets a headache when looking at it.
@chinmayjoshi3592
Жыл бұрын
@@livedandletdie not if you don't understand it though 😛 , and I actually have tried making con-scripts myself, and it is a serious pain to come up with cursive forms. So I pretty much revere anything cursive, or any script that looks flowy now.
@1amarsandhu
Жыл бұрын
Modi and Gurmukhi are actually better than Devanagri, they both have better cursive flow and Gurmukhi was actually designed to handle the sounds found in all Indian languages, Arabic, Farsi and the tones that are found in Punjabi which is the only tonal Indo European language.
@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN
Жыл бұрын
Korean? 😂😂😂😂. That bish only made for the Korean language, can not write any other language where as scripts like Russian or the Roman alphabet can be used by numerous languages
I think that Tironian notes is an interesting script, it started out as a normal shorthand but due to being in use for a very long time it actually became a prestige script of sorts, at its peak it had 13 thousand symbols and was used for actual published books with a cleaned-up orthography, and its "&" symbol became widely adopted. I also really like cuneiform, because a language made of indentations in clay seems ridiculously useful to me, you can literally write with no ink or paper and erase letters by just rubbing them out with your finger, and due to having no lines it can be extremely compact, an experienced cuneiform writer could grab a fistful of clay and write like 30 lines of text on it using only a reed stylus. Also, there are these devices called wax tablets that were commonly used in Western civilization from ancient Greek times up until the 1800s, they were like two small picture frames containing a soft wax and binded together like a little book that you could open up and write in using a stylus, similar to a small portable whiteboard; however this took a lot of skill due to Europe's reliance on Phoenician-derived line scripts, I'm actually amazed that we didn't invent our own home-grown cuneiform during this time period. And I would argue that cuneiform is superior even for the ink-and-paper medium: imagine if you had little stamp pads on your fingers representing the different cuneiform marks and you typed letters directly onto the page, so we wouldn't even need to invent pens in order to write, and I bet it's much faster than a pen. We do actually have a modern cuneiform-like script which is called Braille, but it's used only by blind people which is probably why it looks so unattractive (btw I have no doubt that some blind people in ancient Sumeria could read cuneiform, since it's just a series of holes in a clay surface). Speaking of which, imagine if we did all write in Braille, we could read text without even looking at it. And a Kindle wouldn't even need a screen, it could just be a machine with a bunch of dots that pop up, and you can drag your finger across the dots to read while you watch a movie or something. So I kind of like Braille, but I feel that it needs some fixing to be a great script.
@sullivanbell2397
Жыл бұрын
Novel
@tcoren1
Жыл бұрын
Sanskrit looks pretty awesome
@qwertyTRiG
Жыл бұрын
The Tironian et survives in Ireland and Scotland.
@williamwolffgang
Жыл бұрын
@@qwertyTRiG TIL.
I think you missed a few... The Sinhalese letter ඝ (gha) Sinhalese letter ස (sa) Sinhalese letter ය (ya) Sinhalese letter ය්රී (yree) Sinhalese letter ධ (dha) Sinhalese letter ධි (Dhi) Sinhalese letter ධ්රි (Dhri) Sinhalese letter ට්ඨි (tthi) Sinhalese letter ඣ (jha) Sinhalese letter ඞ (Hard 'Da') Sinhalese letter ඩි (Hard 'Di') Sinhalese letter ශ්ර (shra) Sinhalese letter ශ්රී (shree) Sinhalese letter භ (bha) Sinhalese letter භ්ර (bhra) Sinhalese letter ඝ්රා (ghra) Sinhalese letter ක්රි (kri) Sinhalese leter බ (ba) යීධ්ඨිධ්රිසිධිඞට්ඨිජ්කිඣඣස්ක්ස්ය්රී
@BIG_BADASS
5 ай бұрын
ඞ⃤ඩා⃝ඞ⃞ඩා⃟ඞ⃠ඩා⃢ඩාඞ☺︎꫞
Hangeul is basically a successful constructed script and I love it for that. I also like runes, I read about them in a divination book and just waiting for a trip to the countryside to collect stones for them.
@arta.xshaca
Жыл бұрын
Hangeul to Chinese scripts is like how AI is to humanity.
@D__Ujjwal
9 ай бұрын
This video is about cool looking, not about successful scripts. What do you think of devnagri script, it is also very organised and easy to use
Canadian Script is the coolest because it's used in the Arctic!
@haydend.maniac227
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed it’s cool *happy canadian noises.mp4
@user-mp2tk3pw6j
Жыл бұрын
@@haydend.maniac227 I’m trying to convert it to Sm’algyax and Michif.
@Zultzify
Жыл бұрын
i live near places that have signs in maliseet. god i wish i could learn it!
Sequoyah's original Tsalagi syllabary looked very different, and you might want to check that out too. The version still in use came about basically from sending it to the printer's. They could either create totally new type based on his more complex squiggly-looking script, or slightly modify a bunch of characters they already had and go from there. So, the cheaper and easier option won out. At least one pic is available online of a handwritten copy attributed to Sequoyah from a museum collection, showing the original longhand and print forms together. Not much resemblance between them. I actually think the OG version looks way cooler.
My favourites (Mostly on aesthetic purpose): 10) Latin writting 9) Georgian script 8) Hebrew alphabets 7) Devanagari script 6) Mongolian script 5) Tibetan script 4) Egyptian hieroglyphs 3) Yi script 2) Chinese characters 1) Hangeul (Korean script, which is my motherland's script)
@Brybao
Жыл бұрын
Yi script is strange since it looks a lot like bronze script characters
@RizalBudiLeksono
Жыл бұрын
what is "hindu" script?
@user-mc8wg6qq3b
Жыл бұрын
@@Deepak_Dhakad he probably meant Devanagari one
@RizalBudiLeksono
Жыл бұрын
@@user-mc8wg6qq3b ah okay tq
@lampboy926
Жыл бұрын
Apologies for my misconception. The "Hindu script" was meant for Devanagari script 😅
I'm extremely bias bc I'm a native Russian speaker, so my number 1) is Cyrillic. My favourite alphabet based on it: Serbian Cyrillic and Chukchi Cyrillic 2) Demotic is so PRETTYYY +Egyptian hieroglyphics. I love them. 3) Every Indian script. I love them all 4) Semitic scripts. I love how they represent their root system + they're beautiful 5) Thai
@cazwalt9013
Жыл бұрын
Since you love Cyrillic you should've at least included greek too since it's based on greek
@Jacob.D.
Жыл бұрын
I am a Chinese speaker so I may get biased too. So my #1 is: Russian Cyrillic #2, Mongolian Cyrillic #3, Kazakh Cyrillic ...
@niky6266
Жыл бұрын
@@Jacob.D. Beautiful!
@willyorgy4677
Жыл бұрын
I really like Cyrillic because at least in Russian, the language I’m learning, the lower cases tend to be the same height except for letters like б. It makes it look really neat because they seem like they fit in their own square.
@niky6266
Жыл бұрын
@@willyorgy4677 yeah, true! ❤️
No, the coolest writing system is the one and only… *ITHKUIL MORPHOPHONOLOGICAL ABUGIDA*
@fanaticofmetal
2 жыл бұрын
Beside jokes, Tai Viet needs some recognition, it's so elegant
"Katakana is significantly simpler than hiragana" - that's like saying that upper case letters are significantly simpler than lowercase letters or that one font of the latin alphabet is significantly simpler than another font
@craigime
Жыл бұрын
😂
@nehcooahnait7827
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I knew he would probably bring that kinda stupid argument… tsk
@jordanwardan7588
Жыл бұрын
idk cause katakana is literally simpler than hiragana in that it is made from parts of kanji rather than entire kanji themselves. I had a problem with hentaigana even as a joke being called its own writing system, when all it is is hiragana that didnt make the cut after the 1900 spelling reform. like it's literally the inverse of a writing system lol its a system of what not to write. the literal translation of hentaigana 変体仮名 is "variant/changed body kana" and is a more apt comparison to your comment than katakana imo
I've watched a video about japanese's writing systems and that sparkled my curiosity, it's been 200 days since I've been studying it non-stop, hiragana looks cute, katakana looks badass and kanji look difficult, the perfect pick for a new language to learn
In cherokee he didn’t make that syllabus. His was all cursive looking but the americans changed it for the news press.(i’m cherokee)
My top 10 favourite scripts: 10) Thai 9) Cyrillic 8) Latin 7) Armenian 6) Sitelen Pona 5) Hanzi (Traditional) 4) Zhuyin 3) Hangeul 2) Katakana 1) Greek
@voskiastudios1936
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cyrillic is awesome
@369tayaholic5
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! We do use traditional Hanzi and Zhuyin in my country
@cosmicqueso3570
Жыл бұрын
ευχαριστώ! όπως αποκαλώ την ελληνική γλώσσα, τον πατέρα της δυτικής γραφής!
@sbclaridge
Жыл бұрын
I'm a huge fan of the Greek alphabet myself. I love the lowercase forms of the letters; they look smoother and sleeker than Latin lowercase characters. I wonder why more languages don't use the Greek alphabet? The only major language to use the Greek alphabet today is Greek itself, but there are some other minor languages spoken in and near Greece that do use the Greek alphabet as well (Arvanitika and Tsakonian mainly), and historically other languages in the eastern Mediterranean region did use the Greek alphabet. I should note that Arvanitika is a dialect of of the Albanian language spoken inside of Greece; otherwise, Albanian uses the Latin alphabet.
@cosmicqueso3570
Жыл бұрын
@@sbclaridge the Greek language has historically not been manipulated to fit other phonetic systems, and given it only has 24 letters total, many languages today can’t fit their sound inventories effectively within even an altered Hellenic script
Sutton SignWriting should be in there. It's really cool. Very distinctive, and also straightforward to read (though I find it harder to write). And it renders a whole massive group of previously unwritten languages writable.
I like the aesthetics of N’ko. I have a conscript based on it
@gamermapper
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Looks like Arabic that is made to be non cursive lol
5:33 i was hoping you’d mention hangeul. absolute best writing system
I spent alot of time creating a writing system that I thought was cool. What I didn't think about is how I am going to remember them...
Ogham was also used in Scotland to write Pictish. Some of the lines went in different directions to the Irish Ogham scripts but that's just them wanting to be different. Also, since Pictish has gone extinct it's the only examples of what the language was like apart from place names!
Georgian has a nice aesthetic.
I'd like to add some honorable mentions. - Boring Latin (English that does have no special letters) - Spiced up Latin (Like German which has the original latin plus cool bonus letters such as ä ö ü and ß) - Arabic (It looks cool but it is to tiny on computer screens) - Latin++ (The Polish one where they used latin letters but added cool stuff for every letter to work with their language) - Cyrillic (іт юст лукс реалли ґуд анд алсо гас латін леттерс) - Georgian (Looks gorgeous )
@Swastikanothookcross
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arabic doesn't look cool. it's trash
@lightflatwhite
10 ай бұрын
as a Pole, THANKS YOU also our language is pretty hard tho
Þe Engliſh language has þe cooleſt writing ſyſtem if ȝou chuſe to uſe all þe bells & whiſtles þat were ſterilized out by þe printing preſs. It miȝt be odd at firſt, but I find þat þis ſtyle features much more diſtinct overall word ſhapes þan ſtandard orþography. More aſcenders & deſcenders to ſet words apart from each oþer. Plus, þe letter Þ looks really cool, & þis alſo allows Y to act only as a vowel.
@egbront1506
7 ай бұрын
You include ȝogh but no love for ƿynn?
@cheesuschrist4473
6 ай бұрын
I am against the inclusions of long s and the thing that looks like the number 3, but other than that i agree
my personal favourite is georgian, i love how all the letters look like cute pretzels also as a Guatemalan I'm proud to say we learned how to read mayan numerals at school. it works for nothing but saying "oh, there says 5898" whenever you see ancient stuff at museums, but it's still a dope ability ig
I personally love old Norse, it’s not particularly cool to look at, but it sound awesome when spoken.
I got so happy when you said Cherokee its one of my favorite writing systems im learning the language!
You and nativlang are the best linguistics/languages related KZread channels, period
As a native Arabic speaker , i love the Arabic script so much , even though alot of westerns always underestimate it by saying it looks like spaghetti whatever , which i see no connection ع ث ل م ن ط ك ي س ش ض و ذ ح ز أ . But as matter of fact it's a very beautiful elegant and the no western script in my opinion comes close to the beauty of Arabic script , especially the Arabic calligraphy is something beyond beautiful . Also u did not have to put the war criminal George bush , he indeed liked the arab to the point of doing war crimes in iraq , that was so insensitive
@a.v.j5664
2 жыл бұрын
Georgian is more beautiful
@mimimusa757
2 жыл бұрын
@@a.v.j5664 that is your opinion . In my opinion Arabic is more beautiful .
@a.v.j5664
2 жыл бұрын
@@mimimusa757 👍
@BeneathTheBrightSky
Жыл бұрын
I agree. Spaghetti doesn't have dots.
@samgyeopsal569
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So what if it looks like spaghetti? Spaghetti is good
Thanks for including Sinhala as an honourable mention (even if it’s a little sus).
4:29 Amogus said hi
Omg I also love all these scripts. Well maybe just all in existence 😭
Arabic not being on here is not only apostasy but also a savage underrating of a massively widespread and awesome script
My favourite alphabet is georgian alphabet. It looks super cool, a lot of circles and cute in general
For Me 10) Greek Alphabet 9) Glagolithic 8) Cypriot 7) Phoenician 6) Archaic Greek 5) Linear A 4) Runic 3) Cuneiform 2) Old Italic 1) Linear B
Pretty sad you didn't mention the Tifinagh script its objectively pretty cool.
@RobCamp-rmc_0
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Right? If you’re into the Canadian script, why not Tifinagh?
Right there near the end, and I had to listen several times to be sure, you said number one was "used in Japan until the *earlieth* *twenty* century." That's an easy one to miss. It almost got by me. It's not the usual verbal gaff. Cool video. Haven't heard of some of these. Will have to do some research on them.
I'm glad Mongolian got a special mention at least, I am trying to learn both the language and script and I think it's pretty neat. But some of my own special mentions would go to Phags-pa, Telugu and Georgian. They all look pretty cool IMO. "Hello" in Telugu: హలో "Hello" in Georgian: გამარჯობა I'd show Phags-pa, but I don't think it's supported. And looking at some of the ones on your list, I thought trying to learn Cyrillic was bad enough with Latin-looking letters that sound nothing like the Latin.
It is criminal that Burmese didn't make it.
Georgian deserves a spot
"you want fries with that?" me asf in Cherokee: "G"
I'll add Sundanese. Sure it's mostly replased by the Latin script but it looks like, and I say it totally out of love, how it looks like a generic science fiction "Alienese" script.
Is there any exotic writing system like the one from Kēlen? (I know it's a colang but i just want to know if there is a system near the Kēlen one)
@ConnorQuimby
2 жыл бұрын
I think Maya is actually one of the closest. More so in that it's just super complicated but in a neat way
@baianomgtow9841
2 жыл бұрын
@@ConnorQuimby Thanks, i'm going to research about it
the brahmi script evolved into Siddham an Tibbetan in the east of the subcontinent, which both look insanely cool (also Sylheti Nagri is probs the most underrated south asian script imo lol)
Aethetically I found Hentiagana to be the most apealing.
My 10 [not counting Latin, obvious biases there] 10. Hebrew 9. Thai 8. Elvish 7. Deseret 6. Sanskrit 5. Arabic 4. Greek 3. Kartvelian (Georgian) 2. Cyrillic 1. Hangul
@Swastikanothookcross
Жыл бұрын
sanskrit is a language not script
The Georgian script is my favorite
I think the Georgian alphabet is very cool-looking.
Finally, a video talking about how really cool some scripts are
My latin handwriting uses fixed symbols for common abbreviations and specific variants of letters wich are word/sentence-position-dependent.
I'm glad that hangul got at least a mention.
Georgian is also quite cool. It derived from the Greek alphabet as well!
Have you looked at SignWriting? It can write any sign language, and with some ectentions, it van also write dancing, scate boarding and much more. Remember, language is not just speech, signed laguges are languages too, and they can be written. And they do have some cool gramatical features
Can’t believe Devanāgari didn’t make the list.
Celtiberian is pretty neat. It encodes in a single glyph 2 allophonic letters. Like k and g for example, being the same letter.
As someone who has also studied Japanese, I prefer hiragana because it’s more loopy and noodle like and is easier to write in and remember and make look nicer.
5:49 the WHAT gana?
How is Chinese Hanzi not even mentioned? In my opinion, it is by far the coolest script in history.
Abugidas, Abjads and Logographic scripts are my favorites.
i see by your number one,you're a man of culture as well
I learned about the Yi people and their script is so cool. Impossible to read though😂
sorry but at 5:33 what does natural writing system mean? I wanna know
you guys should look at old turkic script. you'll gonna love it
Awesome video, thanks for making it. How exactly is katakana simpler than hiragana? Its like having the same syllabery but twice in 2 different fonts. Also i like hiragana, katakana is barely used compared to hiragana.
5:36 Amogus?
𒅴𒂠!
@haydend.maniac227
2 жыл бұрын
BRUH
@jangamecuber
2 жыл бұрын
Hello, B. Gilson
@Zapatero078
2 жыл бұрын
Your mom
@lampboy926
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Cuneiform!
@niky6266
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Love you
I personally really like Hangul, Ge'ez, and Arabic
I've been teaching myself some hentai gana recently. the history behind it is really cool and I want to delve into more of the old manyougana poetry that came from chinese educated japanese poets. also funny name.
Hmm... no love for good ol' fashioned cursive Latin alphabet? I've always really liked that one, and am sad that few people use it anymore.
@theweirdwolf1877
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Few people in America that is. Pretty much everyone else uses it
@hoi-polloi1863
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@@theweirdwolf1877 Side-note, have you ever seen Cyrillic cursive? It's a trip!
I hoped for glagolithic to be on the list
I'm a sucker for indian and generally central asian area scrips(even though hindi and begali look completely different from tamil and stuff). Also I love cursive scripts like arabic and mongolian(does that count? idk). Also Oghams super cool great choice for number 2
@livedandletdie
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Ogham contrasts so hard against all the cursive scripts that it's hard to not love Ogham.
@SugoDiGatto
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தமிழ் is so cool and weirdly easy to learn, abugidas are amazing! Just take a look at knot, butterfly, cow riding a snake, and inductor with a trailer: இ ஐ ஊ ணை, also circles: ஃ ... and then there's kshau: க்ஷௌ
@feather1229
Жыл бұрын
I suggest Malayalam script, you can write almost everything in the script
laugh in Chinese Characters
@shirokun4742
Жыл бұрын
Hey use mask
But seriously, hentaigana is a really beautiful script. Gives that really traditional/archaic feel you know.
I like Tifinagh (See my name? Pretty cool.)
you should check out the samaritan hebrew script, it has diacritics that are just arabic letters and a letter called tit
These are good ones, but Tifinagh (also called the Berber or Amazigh script) and Tibetan (basically Devanagari, but 100 times better) are an easy top two for me. Also, Georgian script > every other Greek derived script.
I know you sorta glossed over it by mentioning Brahmi script but I think this video needs at least an honorable mention for THAI! Admittedly the way it functions is lowkey a little dumb, but it looks absolutely beautiful if you ask me
Thought Georgian and Hangul would've made the list. They're certainly some of the tidiest writing systems out there. Also, Katakana is only slightly simpler than Hiragana. 😑
I don't know anything about Thai or Hindi other than I really like their letters lol. I also like that smiley-face letter in Japanese.
The coolest is by far Chinese because of its long history and all the meaningful information inside each character.
Maple syrup on naan got me rolling....🤣🤣🤣😂
No Cyrillic? SAD!
@ConnorQuimby
2 жыл бұрын
I already made a cyrillic video
@professionellerkanal4947
2 жыл бұрын
Cyrillic bad
@txdorovaa
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@professionellerkanal4947
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The Ge'ez abugida is still used in Eritrea and Ethiopia. The Ge'ez language is not spoken anymore and is only used by the Church.
It is conjectured that all future human scripts will converge towards Armenian, with how symbols with similar shapes are already found frequently in other scripts
3:12 what do you mean was? It is still the most used writing system in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
For me, my favorite writing systems are: 1. Katakana (and Hiragana) 2.Syriac 3.Cyrillic 4.Baybayin (which might be borrowed from Bhrami script)
I really think Georgian should have had a place on the list. Very cool script, I’ve copied/taken inspiration from it often
Sequoyah's Cherokee alphabet has an Amogus for "hi".
Ok ive been makeing a con lang. And got my sounds and all. Then decided to make a writing system. And my writing system looks like ogham.
Devanagari script is SO beautiful
Tifinagh and Georgian 🇬🇪
Fun fact: The word 'caracal' that's also used in its scientific name 'caracal caracal' is borrowed from the Turkish name for caracal 'karakulak', which means black ear.
Կոննոր Քուիմբի, ապրես 😊
Check the Georgian alphabet as well
My personal favorite that didn't make this list is Tifinagh.
Spongebob lookin dude 💀 good video 👍