What is the CRAZIEST Alphabet in the Universe?

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    I am a hyperpolyglot gigachad alpha male who is so attractive. I speak so many languages that it isn't even fathomable by the average monolingual beta. If you are a monolingual beta, you should be looking forward to my book.
    These are the craziest alphabets in the whole universe.

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  • @LanguageSimp
    @LanguageSimp  Год назад +1120

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  • @Williamatics
    @Williamatics Год назад +1258

    I'm surprised you never mentioned the Cherokee alphabet, which was created by a man who had seen the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets but could read neither.

    • @wilh3lmmusic
      @wilh3lmmusic Год назад +71

      Cherokee uses a syllabary*

    • @AllenYangZzz
      @AllenYangZzz Год назад +66

      *American and Russian alphabets

    • @katakana1
      @katakana1 Год назад +59

      ​@@wilh3lmmusic Linguists only invented that word as propaganda to save their career

    • @peregrination3643
      @peregrination3643 Год назад +7

      I was thinking about that too. It's like that priest guy did a peak half-assed alphabet creation. And there's no consistent relationship between similar sounds and their shapes.

    • @user6122
      @user6122 Год назад +7

      @@peregrination3643 how dare you disrespect the Mormon Language. It is my native language and English is very hard for me (sorry for bad English). and Mormonism idk insert the rest of the joke here I'm tired.

  • @browny1969
    @browny1969 Год назад +1428

    we all know the best alphabet on the planet is Ancient Albanian Hand Signs

  • @VehemenceOfTheDemigods7712
    @VehemenceOfTheDemigods7712 4 месяца назад +15

    7:42
    "One, Two, skip a few, 99"
    Hah, same as Animaniacs when Yakko counts to 100

  • @3_14pie
    @3_14pie 6 месяцев назад +10

    "American alphabet" was the most american thing I heard today

  • @albertvonhabsburg
    @albertvonhabsburg Год назад +276

    The american alphabet is very popular, it even used in ancient roman empire as its standard alphabet for the official language.

    • @alphacraft2370
      @alphacraft2370 Год назад +1

      Pls stfu😂

    • @Aligartornator13
      @Aligartornator13 11 месяцев назад +25

      You know how they say: If english was good enough for Jesus it's good enought for America.

    • @unhappyrefrain2924
      @unhappyrefrain2924 11 месяцев назад +7

      how tf is it the ‘american alphabet’ that’s not a thing 😵😵😵

    • @unhappyrefrain2924
      @unhappyrefrain2924 11 месяцев назад +5

      it’s the ENGLISH alphabet, bc it’s from the ENGLISH language 💀

    • @RahulVerma-iv8ph
      @RahulVerma-iv8ph 11 месяцев назад +11

      😅. There is nothing called American alphabet, it's the latin alphabet

  • @user-mh6pz8rq9d
    @user-mh6pz8rq9d Год назад +1222

    What really amazes me that Russian "ю" and Japanese "ゆ" make the same sound. It's an absolutely crazy coincindence

    • @juliatorre8803
      @juliatorre8803 Год назад +179

      fish letters the sequel

    • @pi_da_ras17
      @pi_da_ras17 Год назад +8

      Я кроме конничива, Хаджиме машта, татакае, аригато, сумимасэн, ганбарэ, каваи, неко, гоменасай, нани ничего не знаю... А ну ещё 日本語が分かりません。

    • @hearingninja
      @hearingninja Год назад +120

      Maybe not a coincidence? This might be a stupid idea, but since Russia and Japan are actually pretty close geographically there’s a chance that they might have influenced each other’s writing system to a small degree

    • @rizkyadiyanto7922
      @rizkyadiyanto7922 Год назад +188

      ​@@hearingninja russians reached siberia only until like 18th century.

    • @user-mh6pz8rq9d
      @user-mh6pz8rq9d Год назад +22

      @a rhombic dodecahedron yu

  • @thatprogramer
    @thatprogramer 6 месяцев назад +10

    Oreo's were invented in 1912? same year all those people died on the Titanic! I guess they were so exited for the launch that they forgot to pilot the boat.

  • @PC_Simo
    @PC_Simo 7 месяцев назад +7

    @Language Simp Linear B (of Bronze Age Greece) is a pretty wild one: They have jerry cans, ankhs, undermined skyscrapers, undermined birdhouses, people, people, who’ve stuck a fork in an electrical outlet, and a bunch of American letters; to name just a few. I seriously recommend checking it out. 😮

  • @Clock_Man_2763
    @Clock_Man_2763 Год назад +463

    As a Georgian, I’m glad that Georgian Alphabet is also mentioned here, I can confirm how weird and scribbly it looks and guess what, it’s not our only Alphabet, we LITERALLY have like 3 Alphabets, Asomtavruli (ႠႱႭႫႧႠႥႰႳႪႨ), Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli (მხედრული) but we only use Mkhedruli currently now, we also have removed letters that we used to have in Georgian language like ჱ, ჲ, ჳ, ჴ and ჵ, these letters are still used in other Kartvelian languages like ჲ in Mingrelian, Svan and Laz, there are also additions like the F sound letter (ჶ), the Georgian Schwa (ჷ) and glottal stop which looks like a reversed Georgian y looking letter ყ (ჸ)… 🇬🇪

    • @g0rebunii
      @g0rebunii Год назад +17

      You are so cool:_D..!I wish I knew that language 😭

    • @Clock_Man_2763
      @Clock_Man_2763 Год назад +36

      @@g0rebunii
      It looks a little alien to foreigners but you can still learn the based Khachapuri language if you want 🇬🇪😎✊

    • @kiryuze6527
      @kiryuze6527 Год назад +5

      mec var kartveli

    • @jeremitriusmcstevenson1612
      @jeremitriusmcstevenson1612 Год назад +10

      I learned the Georgian alphabet and I can’t stop mixing up ნ and მ

    • @pi_da_ras17
      @pi_da_ras17 Год назад +2

      This is crazy. They look kinda уй. Cool though

  • @etruscanetwork
    @etruscanetwork Год назад +289

    Fun fact:
    The Vai syllabary was invented in about 1833 in Liberia by Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukɛlɛ, who was inspired by a dream to create a writing system for the Vai language. In 1854 a German philologist, S. W. Koelle, met Duwalu Bukele while researching the Vai language. He was told that in Bukele's dream a tall, venerable-looking white man in a long coat appeared and said "I am sent to you by other white men ... I bring you a book." Bukɛlɛ was then shown many signs, but couldn't remeber them when he woke up, so he made new signs with some friends.
    Another theory is that the Vai syllabary was inspired by the Cherokee syllabary. A number of Cherokee emigrated to West Africa in the early 19th century. One of them, Austin Curtis, married a Vai woman from an influential family and became a Vai chief. It is possible that he was involved in some ways with the creation of the Vai syllabary.
    The syllabary proved popular with the Vai and by the end of the 19th century most of them were using it. In 1962 the Standardization Committee at the University of Liberia standardized the syllabary. A Vai version of the New Testament in the Vai script was published in 2003.

    • @powerstar350
      @powerstar350 Год назад

      Yo wtf

    • @axelleenan3801
      @axelleenan3801 Год назад +7

      Sorry for my ignorance, but there ever been Cherokee in Africa!? Like, Cherokee aren't North American native indigenous? How did they ended up in Africa? Transported to be slaves or something?

    • @EggBenis
      @EggBenis Год назад +12

      @@axelleenan3801 iirc it was the result of various explusions, kinda like the trail of tears

    • @MonBean17-tu5os
      @MonBean17-tu5os Год назад +10

      nice profile picture😁kijetesantakalu

    • @alphabetfanthecreator
      @alphabetfanthecreator Год назад

      🤓

  • @maurolionelmisjuegosyo940
    @maurolionelmisjuegosyo940 6 месяцев назад +9

    6:35 the fact that he says it’s from American Georgia instead of Asian Georgian XD

  • @domgamez5158
    @domgamez5158 7 месяцев назад +15

    3:17
    Yeah... tottaly a good seat☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

  • @aeedgee0153
    @aeedgee0153 Год назад +127

    Traditional Mongolian. It's written up to down unlike all languages. And letters look AMAZING as heck. And doesn't have too much circles.

    • @wanari.
      @wanari. Год назад +5

      i agree with you on that. classical chinese looks like that as well, just not as pretty.

    • @jfun1338
      @jfun1338 11 месяцев назад +7

      Just like Manchu language

    • @wanari.
      @wanari. 11 месяцев назад +13

      @@jfun1338 manchu and mongolian actually use almost the same script

    • @Istoeumapemba
      @Istoeumapemba 10 месяцев назад +2

      It's literally Arabic written at an angle of 90°.

    • @ahmadsantoso9712
      @ahmadsantoso9712 9 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah the traditional Mongolian script is super duper amazing awesome fascinating.

  • @DangDatsCrazy
    @DangDatsCrazy Год назад +425

    I always thought that " д " from Cyrillic looked the craziest but after open-mindedly watching this video, I still think that " д " looks the craziest AND creepiest.

  • @trexcath
    @trexcath 5 месяцев назад +2

    The Ge'ez script used by the Amharic and Tigrinya languages (which are spoken in Ethiopia) looks pretty wild. Same with cuneiform writing and even more so with the Tibetian alphabet, which, when romanized, will melt your brain. You should also see the Cree syllabary system

  • @beijingwazzup2374
    @beijingwazzup2374 6 месяцев назад +15

    4:51 “lets teleport to Palestine for a nice Vacation”
    Sorry I suppose to feel sad and shouldn’t have laugh this hard

  • @Plee.
    @Plee. Год назад +93

    I love how you are explaining some languages in the most gen Z way possible

    • @kenziemostyn8395
      @kenziemostyn8395 11 месяцев назад +3

      ëëë wwww haha

    • @RahilPelichev
      @RahilPelichev Месяц назад +1

      Cringe

    • @Plee.
      @Plee. Месяц назад +1

      @@RahilPelichev why'd you comment then 🤨

  • @InsaaniatDost
    @InsaaniatDost 6 месяцев назад +2

    ❤ you looks very lovely.
    😊😊😊
    and reason for round circle letters of south and southeast asia, is
    they used to write on dry banana leafs, ,
    straight lines may torn them apart....

  • @sabbysky
    @sabbysky 3 месяца назад +1

    I'm learning Akkadian and Sumerian right now, love the Cuneiform symbols!
    Sumerian is proving to be crazy though, tons of ways to read the same symbols. So it's always a mess trying to find the right combination that makes up real words and a sentence.

  • @um_internacionalista
    @um_internacionalista Год назад +46

    Each time you said “american alphabet” I felt stabbed

    • @real.siberian
      @real.siberian 9 месяцев назад +5

      😂 I didn’t notice. Is there an American language also?

    • @ahmadsantoso9712
      @ahmadsantoso9712 9 месяцев назад +3

      Why? Don't you know there is Americanish?

    • @teresa_wiggins_gallery
      @teresa_wiggins_gallery 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@ahmadsantoso9712 You. Need. to. Learn. American-ISH.

  • @chammy2812
    @chammy2812 Год назад +112

    I’m surprised you didn’t mention the Cree syllabary. They just rotate all their letters instead of using vowels

    • @VeryNotExtraordinary
      @VeryNotExtraordinary 11 месяцев назад +7

      I need to learn about this now because what

    • @hey7514
      @hey7514 10 месяцев назад

      db
      qp

    • @Hydrazinium
      @Hydrazinium 10 месяцев назад +1

      I think they do the same in Inuktitut

    • @aremxlle
      @aremxlle 9 месяцев назад

      100th like

  • @LubovTumchik
    @LubovTumchik 6 месяцев назад +5

    8:30 what kind of a syllable-verb-noun-pronoun is that? big fan of that

  • @sebastiendumais4246
    @sebastiendumais4246 5 месяцев назад +3

    Not mentioned, but I like the Inuktitut Syllabary (each character is a full syllable)...... Not a super fan of Korean, but LOVE their alphabet, I think it's the most ingenious and properly adapted to its language.
    Favourite --> Japanese :) I just think it looks beautiful..... (for the same reason people like the color blue... so no reason :) )

  • @IHateTheE.X.I.T.
    @IHateTheE.X.I.T. 10 месяцев назад +162

    Timestamps:
    0:01 Intro
    0:26 The Egyptian Hieroglyphs 🇪🇬
    1:25 The Latin Alphabet 🇻🇦
    1:35 The German Alphabet 🇩🇪
    2:09 The Swedish Alphabet 🇸🇪
    2:23 The Slavic Alphabets 🇷🇺
    3:11 The Serbian Alphabet 🇷🇸
    3:41 The Greek Alphabet 🇬🇷
    4:34 The Sinhalese Alphabet 🇱🇰
    4:51 The Arabic Alphabet 🇵🇸
    5:37 The Hebrew Alphabet 🇮🇱
    5:49 The Thai Alphabet 🇹🇭
    6:02 The Cambodian Alphabet 🇰🇭
    6:11 Albania With Voting 🇦🇱
    6:17 The Burmese Alphabet 🇲🇲
    6:28 The Georgian Alphabet 🇬🇪
    6:34 Zooming Into The Georgian State 🇺🇲
    7:04 The Armenian Alphabet 🇦🇲
    7:21 The Hangul Alphabet 🇰🇷
    7:42 The 3 Japanese Alphabets 🇯🇵
    7:51 His Shirt Got Changed 👕
    7:57 Back To The 3 Japanese Alphabets 🇯🇵
    8:25 The Mandarin Alphabet🇨🇳
    8:53 The Mi'kmac Hieroglyphics 🇨🇦
    9:13 The Tifinagh Alphabet 🇲🇦
    9:45 The Vai Alphabet 🇸🇱 🇱🇷
    10:14 The Lugaboob Language ?
    Edit 1: ok paleonnerd I Changed It
    Edit 2: It's Not American Anymore It's Latin OK

    • @mariamidevadze
      @mariamidevadze 10 месяцев назад +1

      Georgia 🇬🇪

    • @susanbing1695
      @susanbing1695 10 месяцев назад +8

      Wtf is the lugaboob It’s probably fake but I wish it wasn’t

    • @mugtaba9805
      @mugtaba9805 10 месяцев назад +3

      Tifinagh is my favourite

    • @paleonerd9702
      @paleonerd9702 10 месяцев назад +3

      It’s the American alphabet not the English.

    • @Ivy30
      @Ivy30 10 месяцев назад +2

      Should've added the simlish alphabet, from any game of the Sims franchise, because even if it's not easy to make a coherent sentence in simlish as the language is actually just mostly basic words, the alphabet it's very inspired by the Hebrew alphabet, and it's pretty cool

  • @pawel.uszakow
    @pawel.uszakow 11 месяцев назад +36

    The church-slavonic cyrillic alphabet has a lot of interesting features. There are 3 different systems of writing: poluustav, vyaz and skoropis. Poluustav was used as a main script in books, it has a lot of diacritics and acronyms for holy words. Vyaz was used for the titles and represents the ligatures of multiple cyrillic characters. Skoropis was used for handwriting.

    • @mearbye
      @mearbye 10 месяцев назад +7

      Old Russian(and Slavic) literature tradition is very cool and underrated

    • @friendlyrobotasmr
      @friendlyrobotasmr Месяц назад

      @@mearbye its old bulgarian language buddy

  • @searchingforasecret
    @searchingforasecret 8 месяцев назад

    i love your vids lmao

  • @calculatedchad4368
    @calculatedchad4368 7 месяцев назад +5

    the go to palestine for a nice vacation didnt age well

  • @mcdoos7390
    @mcdoos7390 8 месяцев назад +42

    Fun fact: in arabic the letters ب ، ت ، ث ,-Which they sound like "t", "b" , "th" accordingly , were before 708 AD with no dots so it's up to you to understand what letter is which depending on the context...glad they added the dots : )

    • @amoggoma430
      @amoggoma430 8 месяцев назад

      I learned arabic when I was in a school, idk if the ث pronounced "th", I always thought it sounds like "ts". or it is just transliteration thing.

    • @vorqoo
      @vorqoo Месяц назад +1

      ​@@amoggoma430it's pronounced as "th" as in think. But in transliteration especially by Indonesians, it is written as "ts" for ث because of the existence of "th" in writing which is the letter ط.

    • @naly8428
      @naly8428 Месяц назад

      ​@@vorqooNope th is ظ but th (not like the) can be ث

    • @reereh8065
      @reereh8065 23 дня назад

      Fun fact: no one asked

    • @mcdoos7390
      @mcdoos7390 23 дня назад

      @@reereh8065 you forgot the emoji of someone who confidently smiles with cool sunglasses

  • @Thronecrusher
    @Thronecrusher Год назад +37

    Самый безумный алфавит - это когда люди делают свои ники из всех этих рандомных букв, которые похожи на их буквы.

    • @Remir_
      @Remir_ Год назад +3

      Да, например "Дimoн4ik"

    • @ghostinshellshock
      @ghostinshellshock 11 месяцев назад

      это литспик

  • @j7ndominica051
    @j7ndominica051 6 месяцев назад +3

    In France they have more accented letters unless the string is capitalized, and they magically turn into regular letters. The A-ring-above letter is a Stargåte. That's a strange lowercase Beta in a more-or-less Times typeface. The Psy looks like a candle holder. Most of these foreign alphabets recycle similar shapes for different letters that are hard to tell apart. The Indian alphabet looks like the letters have been hung to dry on a clothes line.

    • @FlopgamingOne
      @FlopgamingOne Месяц назад

      French accented letters don't turn into regular letters when capitalized, wdym?

  • @Zuzo_theboy
    @Zuzo_theboy 7 месяцев назад +5

    German goofy words "Ä Ü Ö ß" yoo 9:17 Θ on nutshell

  • @MikasCreationsWasTaken
    @MikasCreationsWasTaken 11 месяцев назад +78

    As a Serbian the fact you covered our own alphabet is really funny.
    If you guys didn't know these are the sounds our specific letters make.
    Љ - ly, normie letter (ль)
    Њ - ny (or ñ), a bit different (нь)
    Ћ - light cousin of Ч (чь)
    Џ - dzh, a Д and a Ж combined
    Ђ - dj, a letter not even satan can grasp (џь)
    Ј - seriously we just took the american J and turned it into a Й
    Hope that sums it up! (Btw, we also use the American alphabet, we just like our Cyrillic more.)

    • @StrategySphere
      @StrategySphere 11 месяцев назад +15

      For me as a Russian speaker who uses Cyrillic, this makes perfect sense.

    • @ReallyEpikUsername
      @ReallyEpikUsername 11 месяцев назад +6

      Since you're a serbian... Im gonna ask you a question
      is kosovo a country?

    • @MikasCreationsWasTaken
      @MikasCreationsWasTaken 11 месяцев назад +8

      @@ReallyEpikUsername I don't care about that. I'm not into politics.

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@MikasCreationsWasTaken Сърбин, комуто не го е грижа за Косово?

    • @MikasCreationsWasTaken
      @MikasCreationsWasTaken 11 месяцев назад +8

      @@HeroManNick132 I don't give a shit about politics, and I don't give a shit on whether or not Kosovo is a country. I'm just someone on the internet who wants to have fun and watch and create content.

  • @samsultales
    @samsultales 8 месяцев назад +80

    0:01 That alphabet "FOK" Got me💀

  • @NickAndriadze
    @NickAndriadze 5 месяцев назад +1

    *6:29* As a Georgian myself this section was a really good surprise :>

  • @Le_Ocelot
    @Le_Ocelot 6 месяцев назад +1

    As someone who is from Georgia (the state) I can confirm we have lots of circles in our writing

  • @StardustAnlia
    @StardustAnlia Год назад +48

    The languages written in my sketchbooks are my favorites. For liturgy, we have Anlai which consists of iconic symbols like chinese, but they're pronounced as a stack of pictures of your mouth, like korean. Next, you have Anguli which is those Anlai symbols, but with American and Hebrew words thrown in in an alphabet halfway between the Anlai mouth pictures and the American alphabet. It's used to define new words in Anlai covertly.

    • @Weeping-Angel
      @Weeping-Angel 9 месяцев назад +1

      That’s so cool. I wish I could see what it looks like.

  • @kiara23422
    @kiara23422 Год назад +47

    I hope I can be Language Simp's boyfriend one day

  • @MenelionFR
    @MenelionFR 9 дней назад

    As a blind polyglot, I enjoyed your letter descriptions!

  • @visitantx
    @visitantx Месяц назад +1

    Bro called that random island amongus island💀

  • @RedPandas3111
    @RedPandas3111 8 месяцев назад +28

    My brother, you deserve 30 million subscribers, your content is worth paying for keep up the good work !

  • @GusukeshhsKun2002
    @GusukeshhsKun2002 Год назад +24

    5:56 That letter ง ACTUALLY means snake.

  • @merakisayed
    @merakisayed 6 месяцев назад +3

    Interestingly the Kannada Language has two letters that also look like among us characters, the ಡ and ಢ 😀😃.

  • @KoghomFaamae
    @KoghomFaamae 28 дней назад

    Whats a Syllabary? In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.
    A symbol in a syllabary, called a syllabogram, typically represents an (optional) consonant sound (simple onset) followed by a vowel sound (nucleus)-that is, a CV or V syllable-but other phonographic mappings, such as CVC, CV- tone, and C (normally nasals at the end of syllables), are also found in syllabaries. A writing system using a syllabary is complete when it covers all syllables in the corresponding spoken language without requiring complex orthographic / graphemic rules, like implicit codas (⟨C1V⟩ ⇒ /C1VC2/), silent vowels (⟨C1V1+C2V2⟩ ⇒ /C1V1C2/) or echo vowels (⟨C1V1+C2V1⟩ ⇒ /C1V1C2/). This loosely corresponds to shallow orthographies in alphabetic writing systems. True syllabograms are those that encompass all parts of a syllable, i.e., initial onset, medial nucleus and final coda, but since onset and coda are optional in at least some languages, there are middle (nucleus), start (onset-nucleus), end (nucleus-coda) and full (onset-nucleus-coda) true syllabograms. Most syllabaries only feature one or two kinds of syllabograms and form other syllables by graphemic rules.
    Syllabograms, hence syllabaries, are pure, analytic or arbitrary if they do not share graphic similarities that correspond to phonic similarities, e.g. the symbol for ka does not resemble in any predictable way the symbol for ki, nor the symbol for a. Otherwise, they are synthetic, if they vary by onset, rime, nucleus or coda, or systematic, if they vary by all of them.[citation needed] Some scholars, e.g., Daniels, reserve the general term for analytic syllabaries and invent other terms (abugida, abjad) as necessary. Some systems provide katakana language conversion, Hiragana and Katakana both are Syllabaries, Cherokee, Vai, and Yi syllabary are also syllabaries, Cypriot also uses a Syllabary. the English-based creole language Ndyuka, Xiangnan Tuhua, and the ancient language Mycenaean Greek (Linear B). In addition, the undecoded Cretan Linear A is also believed by some to be a syllabic script, though this is not proven.

  • @chloversp5799
    @chloversp5799 Год назад +91

    personally i like the alphabet that was seen in the beta versions of slavic languages from croatia - the Glagolitic alphabet.
    it seems really cool however im sad that the devs removed it before release in favour for the cyrillic alphabet. id love to see it brought back into full release.

    • @smileyface3956
      @smileyface3956 Год назад +11

      As a human who was spawned in croatia I can gurantee you that when I become a dictator I will bring back the glagolitic alphabet

    • @netkv
      @netkv Год назад +6

      glagolitic was originally made in moravia by greeks

    • @simontollin2004
      @simontollin2004 Год назад +2

      ​@@netkv the ethnicity of cyrill and methodius is unkown, all that we know is that they spoke slavic language fluently since they codified what we now call church slavonic

    • @metallizard88
      @metallizard88 Год назад +2

      @@smileyface3956 reading this thread as a bulgarian hurts my soul

    • @smileyface3956
      @smileyface3956 Год назад +2

      @@metallizard88 you can be my pupet in bulgaria

  • @julbombning4204
    @julbombning4204 Год назад +58

    Now rank the writing systems in a tier list!

    • @_sandy_
      @_sandy_ 11 месяцев назад +2

      great idea

  • @dogekid7
    @dogekid7 6 месяцев назад +3

    4:07 i think it was made to look like a trident 😂

  • @debmalyalodh1
    @debmalyalodh1 5 месяцев назад +2

    7:45 Kanji is a freaking Indian drink I'm not kidding.

  • @holdingpattern245
    @holdingpattern245 Год назад +44

    In actuality though, I think the ancient Sumerian script is a contender for the weirdest. Even if you ignore that it's the first script ever, it's done in a similar style to hieroglyphs, where they try to combine smaller pictograms to make bigger words in a way that's so awkward that they would often need to include clues to help the readers figure out the meaning, but they also had to do this in a script where you could only draw golf tees.

    • @imperialist4862
      @imperialist4862 10 месяцев назад +1

      The first script was phonecian

    • @holdingpattern245
      @holdingpattern245 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@imperialist4862phoenician came from egyptian

    • @user-gp6kt4yl8f
      @user-gp6kt4yl8f 9 месяцев назад +1

      Phoenician was the first phonetic script. Arabic alphabet is easy to learn because it is pretty logical. Same logical is celtic alphabet with lines and stripes(think they call it ogamic)

  • @ALAINLEONGJIANXIANGMoe
    @ALAINLEONGJIANXIANGMoe Год назад +17

    1. ŋ
    What it's called: Eng.
    Who uses it: Many African languages (e.g., Bambara, Bemba, Dinka, Ewe, Ewondo, Fula, Ganda, Maasai, Nuer, Shilluk, Tuareg, Wolof), several North American languages (e.g., Nuu-Chah-Nulth, O'odham), and a few others.
    What it stands for: The "ng" sound as in "sing."
    Where it comes from: The letters n and g merged; it was designed by a typographer in 1619.
    In English: We should have started using it as soon as it was invented, because we need the darn thiŋ. But it only shows up in pronunciation guides.
    2. ɔ
    What it's called: Open o.
    Who uses it: Mainly African languages from several linguistic families; e.g., Aja, Akan, Bambara, Dinka, Ewe, Ewondo, Nuer, Shilluk, Twi.
    What it stands for: The vowel sound you hear before the "r" in "or"; or, in some accents of English, in words such as "caught."
    Where it comes from: The International Phonetic Alphabet. It was made by turning the letter c 180 degrees.
    In English: The English alphabet has never had a place fɔr it, except in some pronunciation guides.
    3. þ
    What it's called: Thorn.
    Who uses it: Icelandic.
    What it stands for: The consonant you hear at the beginning of "thin."
    Where it comes from: The Elder Futhark runic alphabet. It was borrowed by Old English and Old Norse because the Latin alphabet didn't have a letter for the sound.
    In English: This used to be an English letter. It and the letter eth (ð) stood for the sounds at the starts of "thin" and "this," and were often used interchangeably. (Icelandic also uses ð, just for the consonant you hear at the beginning of "this.") Why did we stop using it? Because Europeans didn't use it, and European-trained scribes didn't like it. When we got moveable type, the letter sets didn't include it. For a while the letter y was used to stand in for it, as in ye for þe (yes, the word the - it was not pronounced "ye"), but finally th won out.
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    4. ƿ
    What it's called: Wynn.
    Who uses it: Old English did.
    What it stands for: "W."
    Where it comes from: Those runes again. Notice that this letter lacks the ascender you see on þ, and the bottom of the loop angles down like in a y rather then up as in a p.
    In English: The letter w has only been its own letter for a few hundred years. Before that, languages that needed it often used uu or vv (which used to be the same letter - u was just a variant form of v, and both were used for the sounds we now write u and v), but Old English scribes decided it made more sense to borrow a proper distinct letter for it. But it fell out of use. In fact, today even in modern printings of Old English texts the letter w is used, because ƿ looks too much like p. Wynn? More like can't win!
    5. ƕ
    What it's called: Hwair.
    Who uses it: Gothic did, but no one has spoken Gothic for about 1200 years.
    What it stands for: "Hw."
    Where it comes from: The letters h and v merged.
    In English: Although we used to have hw (or hƿ) all over the place - respelled now as wh - we never used this letter. Don't know ƕy not!
    6. ƣ
    What it's called: Gha.
    Who uses it: various Turkic languages used to; they've all replaced it with other letters now.
    What it stands for: Usually a voiced velar fricative - which is like the "ch" in German "ach" but voiced.
    Where it comes from: A modified version of a handwritten q.
    In English: We've never even thought about using this letter. English did used to have the sound it stands for, but it used a different letter for it.
    7. ȝ
    What it's called: Yogh.
    Who uses it: No one now, but English and Scots used to.
    What it stands for: A voiced velar fricative (see above) or the "y" sound, usually.
    Where it comes from: A handwritten form of g.
    In English: At first, English didn't need this letter; then it did, so it used it. Then it replaced the letter with gh because of those darn Europeans (see þ, above). Then it stopped using the sound. Meanwhile, Scots, also under the influence of European letter sets, replaced the letter with z, giving rise to names like Dalziel (pronounced like "deal"), Menzies (pronounced like "mingis"), and Kenzie (which used to be pronounced like "ken ye").
    8. ʒ
    What it's called: Ezh.
    Who uses it: Some kinds of Sami, which is spoken in Norway and a bit of Russia; also, some African languages.
    What it stands for: In the International Phonetic Alphabet, this stands for the "zh" sound you hear in "pleasure" and "Zhivago," but Sami uses it for a "dz" or "j" sound.
    Where it comes from: A handwritten form of the letter z.
    In English: We've had the sound in our language ever since we borrowed it from French, but we treaʒure our leiʒure too much to exert the effort to use a new letter for it.
    9. ʔ
    What it's called: Glottal stop.
    Who uses it: Mostly North American languages (e.g., Klallam, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Chipewyan).
    What it stands for: The sound between the vowels in "oh-oh" and "uh-uh," and the sound we usually make in place of the "t" in "button" - and that Cockneys (among others) regularly replace "t" with in many places.
    Where it comes from: A development of the form of an apostrophe to look pretty much like a question mark without a dot; it's the symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for this sound.
    In English: Where we need to represent this sound explicitly, we usually just use an apostrophe. So do many languages. But apostrophes are used for so many other things… Do I think we'll ever start using this in normal written English, though? Nuʔ-uh.

    • @piperpotts1969
      @piperpotts1969 Год назад +1

      How long did this take to write

    • @mugtaba9805
      @mugtaba9805 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@piperpotts1969 Hours or 0-59 minutes

    • @marwaqoura7804
      @marwaqoura7804 4 месяца назад

      6.Is used in Arabic too with the same sound غ

  • @ovsena_kasa
    @ovsena_kasa 4 месяца назад

    3:12 explenation of Serbian letters
    љ-soft l
    њ-soft n, similar to Spanish Ñ
    ђ-soft d
    ћ-soft ch or even soft t
    џ-combination of d and zh sounds

  • @IcheeCOTC
    @IcheeCOTC Месяц назад

    I've made an entire script for the language you speak in this video. it's got a snake, a husk of corn, and a diamond that doesn't even make a sound

  • @OrangeBunt
    @OrangeBunt Год назад +11

    7:33 Thanks for censoring, I do not allow profanity in my house. I can 100% not hear this swear word

  • @Zestieee
    @Zestieee Год назад +44

    "History is in the past for a reason."
    One of the most inspiring quotes ever 🙏🏻

  • @jankystreams3337
    @jankystreams3337 5 месяцев назад +1

    The best part of this video is how the censor sounds don't actually censor his curse words

  • @Cool_kid_the_real
    @Cool_kid_the_real 8 месяцев назад +1

    I like how his eyes practically broke in the thumbnail

  • @geo3098
    @geo3098 Год назад +18

    Thank you for mentioning Georgian Alphabet - 6:28 - მადლობა, რომ ახსენე ქართული ანბანი (isn't it beautiful )

  • @musabsrt
    @musabsrt Год назад +35

    5:21 Your pronunciation of the letter ح has improved greatly, as it has for all the letters, good work! I look forward to see you speak the language as a native and me to master English!

    • @deutschesmanutter1395
      @deutschesmanutter1395 Год назад +1

      No not really. It sounds like ه

    • @Z_dzrx
      @Z_dzrx Год назад +1

      ​@@deutschesmanutter1395 I guess you're right, it still kinda sounds like ه but it definitely got better because before he couldn't even pronounce ح

    • @musabsrt
      @musabsrt Год назад +4

      @@deutschesmanutter1395 And this is it! The key of pronouncing the letter ح is to avoid overexerting yourself and straining your throat. Instead, focus on learning the language as a whole and practicing with native speakers on a regular basis. With time and consistent effort, you'll find that your pronunciation will naturally become more like that of a native speaker.

    • @mthecatholic1481
      @mthecatholic1481 Год назад +1

      That's just like the sound of Villagers in Minecraft.

    • @oosha2000
      @oosha2000 Год назад +1

      That's called the soft h and it's like sighing in Arabic.

  • @JamesTheCreatorisback
    @JamesTheCreatorisback Месяц назад +1

    As a Cyrillic Script fan...
    3:12 is dzhe
    3:19 the left is dje Ђ and right is nje Њ, the j is pronounced as y except the Ђ
    3:30 the right is tshe Ћ
    I'm a Cyrillic Script fan

  • @stevenottomanyi154
    @stevenottomanyi154 4 месяца назад +4

    I enjoy your videos and your humor, but I would like to humbly offer a small correction: "ä," "ö," and "ü" are not considered separate letters in the German alphabet. However, letters with diacritics are considered separate letters in some languages, like Hungarian, where the letters a, á, e, é, i, í, o, ó, ö, ő, u, ú, ü, and ű are all considered to be separate letters.
    It seems strange, I know, but it helps to think of it like this: in Hungarian, the letter “á” is really no more a letter “a” with a mere accent than is the letter “m” merely an “n” with an extra leg. And could you speak a bit faster? It makes uptake of videos quicker and, unfortunately, You Tube does not go higher than double speed.

  • @babilobaid5306
    @babilobaid5306 Год назад +16

    5:30 "extremely beautiful writing" proceeds to show news about isis

    • @EditorZyldy
      @EditorZyldy Год назад +3

      Damn really?

    • @wayacrazy.
      @wayacrazy. Год назад +1

      I do not speak it so I wouldn’t know

    • @EditorZyldy
      @EditorZyldy 11 месяцев назад +1

      @somtbling5019 wow that is insane

  • @pedroproglhof598
    @pedroproglhof598 10 месяцев назад +7

    You could mention the Quipo that ancient Incas used for comunication. Btw nice videos! As an austrian, rly apreciate the german flag mentions! Lol Cheers from Brazil

  • @undekagon2264
    @undekagon2264 6 месяцев назад +1

    I like Ge'ez, Modi lipi, Assyriac, Mongol and Glogolithic, maybe Tibetan too. They all look so call. And surely all Indian (Brahmi derived) scripts for all of the many Indian languages dead or alive. all very, very cool

  • @Flocano
    @Flocano 4 месяца назад

    The sga (standard galactic alphabet) aka Minecraft enchantment table language has got to be on the top

  • @MCEnthusiastYT
    @MCEnthusiastYT 9 месяцев назад +13

    "the American alphabet" alternate title: "The US plagiarizes the Latin alphabet"
    (I get the joke but still)

  • @yaroslavromanyuk5669
    @yaroslavromanyuk5669 Год назад +24

    Mongolian script, for sure. It's like Arabic, but vertical instead of backwards. Awesome shit.

    • @Saladid
      @Saladid Год назад +1

      How does it appear in yt comments?

    • @yaroslavromanyuk5669
      @yaroslavromanyuk5669 Год назад +6

      @@Saladid
      Ok, let me check. I copied some vertical Mongolian text.
      ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠦᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠰᠣᠨᠢᠨ ᠮᠡᠳᠡᠭᠡ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠰᠦᠯᠵᠢᠶ᠎ᠡ
      Horizontally.

    • @AllenYangZzz
      @AllenYangZzz Год назад

      @@Saladid You must turn ur head left down 90 degrees to read it

    • @dumbbol4657
      @dumbbol4657 Год назад +1

      ​@@yaroslavromanyuk5669so, upsidedown arabic

    • @damian_madmansnest
      @damian_madmansnest Год назад

      @@Saladid Because you cannot add special markup to display text vertically, you have to turn your head 90° to read it in comments.

  • @Destrixio
    @Destrixio 2 месяца назад +1

    3:00 -- Hey, Pokemon fan here. Have you ever heard of T form Unown? Yeah...

  • @lapiswolf2780
    @lapiswolf2780 Месяц назад

    1:23 I do remember the American Empire and it's American pantheon. Rulers of the Classical world. I heard the American Empire had trouble the Parthian Empire.

  • @SoicBR
    @SoicBR Год назад +17

    4:41 calling these non-amongus letters is misinformation. They clearly resemble an Among Us character twerking

    • @Syiepherze
      @Syiepherze Год назад +4

      I'm Sri Lankan and honestly I was thinking the same LOL

    • @Abypar
      @Abypar Год назад +1

      Shake that ass like me shaking rn

  • @undivisible
    @undivisible Год назад +44

    i can't believe you said cyrillic lacks pizzazz I get rock solid everytime I see ы

    • @eulalawrence2559
      @eulalawrence2559 Год назад +4

      Ыыыыыыы

    • @julianwitkowicz9783
      @julianwitkowicz9783 Год назад +4

      Как в Тыве и Монголии: "ыыргаээыыгхэээы"

    • @undivisible
      @undivisible Год назад

      @@julianwitkowicz9783 это реално?

    • @undivisible
      @undivisible Год назад

      @@eulalawrence2559 ыыыыыыыыыы

  • @Pball101reviews
    @Pball101reviews 25 дней назад +1

    9:13 bruh the tifinagh letter YAZ it’s looks like a familiar Hong Kong railway logo

  • @Roblox13345
    @Roblox13345 26 дней назад

    my craziezt alphabet is
    1. ʒ What it's called Ezh
    2. þ What it's called Thorn
    3. ɔ What it's called Open o
    4. ƿ What it's called Wynn
    5. ƕ What it's called Hwair
    6. ȝ What it's called Yogh
    7. ʔ
    8.ƣ What it's called Gha and you can also find it on your keyboard! (ONLY MOBILE)

  • @thecerealprovider3831
    @thecerealprovider3831 11 месяцев назад +9

    i LOVE this guy's sense of humour
    its just goofy
    languagesimp is cool

  • @wuwoww
    @wuwoww Год назад +12

    For phonetic writing system, it's [meaning]→[pronunciation]→[writing].
    i.e. you first decide how to call a thing, then use an alphabet to write down how you pronounced it.
    For Logogram writing systems, it's [meaning]→[writing]→[pronunciation].
    i.e. you first decide how to write down a thing, the meaning stands, different groups of people pronounce them differently.
    For example the character 雪 pronounce as [xue] in Chinese, [yuki] in Japanese, [nun] in Korean.
    Chinese characters (also Kanji) is not alphabet. Because alphabets are representing sounds.
    Mandarin do use Latin letters alphabet in Pinyin, which is phonetic writing system for Mandarin.

    • @aer0a
      @aer0a Год назад +1

      Technically an alphabet has to have symbols for vowels and consonants

  • @dingledorthXVII
    @dingledorthXVII 7 месяцев назад +1

    As a proud Pennsylvanian, I can confirm we speak that last language on a daily basis. I know that it could be hard to understand, but it’s so easy after you learn it. Trust me!

  • @yafyafyaf
    @yafyafyaf 4 месяца назад +1

    I think the craziest one is Abkhaz. Spoken in Abkhazia, a state in Georgia.

  • @HeisenbergFam
    @HeisenbergFam Год назад +77

    "im attracted to every woman and man" this man has enough love to give to +8 billion people on the planet

    • @Ironclone
      @Ironclone Год назад

      He's attractive not attracted, one could only dream to be attractive in the eyes of a hyperpolyglot gigachad alpha male.

    • @thelollykitty
      @thelollykitty Год назад +10

      non binary people:

    • @doslittleduendes2569
      @doslittleduendes2569 Год назад +1

      Think i seen u before, u are the chemist teacher right?

    • @Janeage
      @Janeage Год назад +29

      He is attractive, not attracted. He focuses on languages he doesn't have time for love

    • @Krokrodyl
      @Krokrodyl Год назад +10

      attractive*

  • @dayanbalevski4446
    @dayanbalevski4446 Год назад +9

    Bulgarian is the simplest and most straightforward of the Cyrillic alphabets. It is also the place of origin for the Cyrillic alphabet.

  • @drawuniverse11
    @drawuniverse11 Месяц назад +1

    The lugaboob alphabet is truly the craziest alphabet

  • @OMGtheelevenpizzasarestanding
    @OMGtheelevenpizzasarestanding 8 месяцев назад +1

    just imagine alphabet lore with this alphabet

  • @Lunamanka
    @Lunamanka Год назад +24

    2:27 It's kinda true. In early 18th century cyrillic alphabet was redisigned by Peter the Great to make it look more -latin- american

  • @TheCCBoi
    @TheCCBoi Год назад +15

    4:42 my favorite letters: twerking spring breaker slapping their booty.

  • @is_idk
    @is_idk 21 день назад +1

    6:10 Javanese aksara: bet

  • @markosvizaniaris4722
    @markosvizaniaris4722 20 дней назад

    If you are wondering of what "Ξ" is in greek, it's into making the "x" sound.

  • @hibaaj358
    @hibaaj358 Год назад +63

    As a Berber, I really appreciate you mentioning the tifinagh alphabets in your videos!

    • @julianwitkowicz9783
      @julianwitkowicz9783 Год назад +5

      Yeah, glad he mentioned it. Though unfortunately all the informations I could find seem to confirm that the alphabet practically fell out of use among the berbers in modern times

    • @hibaaj358
      @hibaaj358 Год назад +12

      @@julianwitkowicz9783 honestly, kind of. Because in our country (Morocco), our first language is arabic and tamazight/tashelhit (Berbers' language), and Berbers are the original people of Morocco, but not all of Moroccans can speak it or understand it. And the problem is, we don't even teach tashlehit/tamazight in schools nowadays (expect in few regions (ex : Agadir..etc )). Also to mention that most of the elder population are illiterate, so they can speak it, but doesn't know how to write or read tifinagh... Fortunately, there are tv channels that are dedicated to broadcast movies/series in tamazight/tashelhit with arabic subtitles, and educational programs teaching the language.
      Sorry for long comment, but I tried my best to answer your question and explain the situation in here (Morocco). Btw, Berbers were not only in Morocco, they were in North African/Maghrebin countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya), but they are a lot of words differences (but still same letter ofc).

    • @RaineySteelwing
      @RaineySteelwing Год назад +2

      ​@@hibaaj358 oh thanks for explaining, it was a very curious thing to read!

    • @ramzidz6150
      @ramzidz6150 Год назад +4

      🇩🇿ⵣ

    • @RaineySteelwing
      @RaineySteelwing Год назад +1

      @@ramzidz6150 Ж

  • @Purwapada
    @Purwapada Год назад +39

    p.s my username is written in the gigachad javanese script
    also the various Mongolian scripts look cool.
    not to mention cuneiform which uses rebus and pictograms which is made by pressing sticks into smartphone shaped squares of clay.
    'Ditema tsa Dinoko' in South Africa looks like a bunch of triangle shaped flags and is really cool. Other weird african ones are 'Edo' script looks like little multi-coloured lamb chops. And the 'Mandombe' script looks like a greek labarynth in birds eye view.

    • @loveurself764
      @loveurself764 Год назад +1

      I agree

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada Год назад

      I just found out about something called 'lusona' I dont even know if it is classed as a writing system but it's cool AF

    • @daniellin5373
      @daniellin5373 Год назад +3

      The Hanunó'o script writing from below to the top really surprises me. And the Avoiuli writing system looks like a bunch of knots that i got when i put my earphone into my bag/pocket 😂

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada Год назад +1

      @@daniellin5373 oh wow

    • @tribaounidadedonstania
      @tribaounidadedonstania Год назад

      PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO TYPE JAVANESE 😭😭

  • @---OVO
    @---OVO 2 месяца назад +1

    As an Russian, i can confirm that Americans and other western people will not understand the letters "ь,ю,я,ы,ж,ч"

  • @bryantheutuber
    @bryantheutuber 7 месяцев назад

    do u know if im seeing the 3 stack words i saw a word that is like an trident that so tricky

  • @Gigagamerrays
    @Gigagamerrays Год назад +6

    my favorite writing system is probably the Edo script which uses colors to distinguish between sounds, basically you can have the same shape but a different color and it's a different sound

  • @pythocality8269
    @pythocality8269 11 месяцев назад +12

    I am flattered that you didn't say anything about the Sugondese language, it is so distinct and unique! The first letter of the alphabet is pronounced as zsch, and the alphabet is a reworked alien alphabet.

    • @culome
      @culome 11 месяцев назад

      Sugondese

  • @maxtaylor3745
    @maxtaylor3745 3 месяца назад +1

    Came for the content, stayed for the MCR rep

  • @arcticgrayling3368
    @arcticgrayling3368 6 месяцев назад +1

    Ancient mongolian script is pretty crazy, it needs attention

  • @saathvikbogam
    @saathvikbogam Год назад +12

    "You've got the letters that look like *Pokémons* "
    Bro just insulted the entire pokémon community by calling the plural "pokémons".

  • @springlink3188
    @springlink3188 Год назад +9

    8:23 If you stare at this long enough, you can see a guy sitting on the toilet to the right, with the bathroom toiletries behind them, then the big letter I is the wall, and on the other side of the door is someone whose head looks like a tree walking towards the foreground.

  • @annatiagounidou
    @annatiagounidou 5 месяцев назад +1

    Well... As a greek man i can say TRULY that the hardest language is GREEK.

  • @BentleyBrock111
    @BentleyBrock111 5 месяцев назад +1

    i just saw a ad and it had bad words

  • @alephomega955
    @alephomega955 Год назад +14

    2:04 I'm learning German, and I think the ä makes the /ɛ/ sound, sort of like the e in friend (in American English only). Otherwise, it makes the /æ/ sound, which is an in-between of /a/ (like a as in apple in some dialects of English) and /ɛ/. So, in short, you basically made the right sound

    • @the_odd_cat553
      @the_odd_cat553 3 месяца назад

      As a German, the „Ä“ only makes either „ɛ“, „ɛː“ (or depending on dialect sometimes „eː“)

    • @alyanahzoe
      @alyanahzoe Месяц назад

      æ? 😂😂😂

    • @alephomega955
      @alephomega955 Месяц назад

      @@alyanahzoe yes, æ

  • @wikwiki
    @wikwiki 8 месяцев назад +6

    4:56
    hello. Actually I am from Iran . A Persian country in the Middle East. Persian , or Farsi alphabet is similar to Arabic alphabet but we have some more letters . like "ژ" that has si sound in some words like vision , or "گ" that has /g/ sound .

  • @EyeofHorus-no5te
    @EyeofHorus-no5te 3 месяца назад

    as a pennsylvanian, it's kinda' weird seeing a language spoken in my home state be the most weirdest language, yet i am honored.

  • @michaelmuller1433
    @michaelmuller1433 Год назад +10

    Ю - that‘s not a fish, THAT is a fish: ゆ (and both the Russian and the Japanese fish are pronounced yu, fascinating)

    • @atsukorichards1675
      @atsukorichards1675 11 месяцев назад

      I think Japanese "fish" isn't pronounced as "yu". It (魚) is read as "uo", "sakana" or "gyo."

    • @michaelmuller1433
      @michaelmuller1433 11 месяцев назад

      @@atsukorichards1675 I was talking about the hiragana ゆ that looks like a fish. Not about the actual kanji for fish. 😄

    • @atsukorichards1675
      @atsukorichards1675 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@michaelmuller1433 oh, I see. But, alas, I can never see ゆ as a fish because I have seen and used it as a character/letter for a long time. (Though it makes me think of a bath, especially a public bath and Onsen/hot springs, for this letter is also for "湯/yu/hot water.")