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| Romullo Newbie Brazil Joined 6049 days ago 20 posts - 30 votes Studies: English | Message 1 of 69 27 February 2009 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just wanna know what's the nicest looking script in your opinion; I could cite some that please me when I see them, even without knowing a single letter:
Hangul: simple and modern looking Tamil: it's like a graceful drawing Katakana/hiragana: minimalistic and much prettier than kanji but my favourite one is the kannada script, here's a random set of characters: ಅ ಆ ಇ ಈ ಉ ಊ ಋ ಎ ಏ ಐ ಒ ಓ ಔ ಅ೦ ಅಃ ಕ ಖ ಗ ಘ ಙ ಚ ಛ ಜ ಝ ಞ ಟ ಠ ಡ ಢ ಣ ತ ಥ ದ ಧ ನ ಪ ಫ ಬ ಭ ಮ ಯ ರ ಲ ವ ಶ ಷ ಸ ಹ ಳ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 69 27 February 2009 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm quite fond of the Georgian script: ქართული დამწერლობა
The Mongolian vertical script is also nice. I also quite like the Persian writing system - to look at, anyhow; I prefer my vowels clearly written out in Indo-European languages: الفبای_فارسی Devangari is also neat: देवनागरी. Thai's charming: อักษรไทย. The Inuktitut syllabary is quite fun-looking, full of rotational symmetry: ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖅ ᓄᑖᖅ Ge'ez has a cool, blocky look: ግዕዝ I agree with you about Tamil: தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி I can't think of a script I dislike the look of, actually, so I'll just post a link to Omniglot's page on writing systems instead of spending all evening on this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5884 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 3 of 69 28 February 2009 at 12:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I also enjoy the diversity of scripts, but so far have been able not to allow my fondness on them to drive my language learning choices and desires. For sure, this would bring me to a terrible wanderlust.
IF writing systems were my first reason to learn a language, among the languages I would like to study, in order of preference, they would be Georgian, Korean, Mandarin and Arabic. After these, not in order, Thai, Hindi/Sanskrit and Tamil. Of course, there are many other languages I would like to study, but none due to its writing system. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6016 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 69 28 February 2009 at 12:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Definitely Arabic&Sanskrit, no contest :)
To tell the truth I'm not that keen on the Korean one. Probably since I find it hard to learn it :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Romullo Newbie Brazil Joined 6049 days ago 20 posts - 30 votes Studies: English | Message 5 of 69 28 February 2009 at 12:59am | IP Logged | ||
If you're talking about the Korean language many on this forum would agree, but the script is right the opposite, it's regarded as the easiest and was designed to be so. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Romullo Newbie Brazil Joined 6049 days ago 20 posts - 30 votes Studies: English | Message 6 of 69 28 February 2009 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Divehi looks both arabic and indian
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| Emilia Newbie Italy Joined 6142 days ago 26 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 7 of 69 28 February 2009 at 1:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Hebrew, there is something calming about looking at those "squares".
Greek looks very "refined" too. Out of the scripts I can't read, I like Coptic very much. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Fat-tony Nonaglot Senior Member United Kingdom jiahubooks.co.uk Joined 6142 days ago 288 posts - 441 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto, Thai, Laotian, Urdu, Swedish, French Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian, Arabic (Written), Armenian, Pali, Burmese | Message 8 of 69 28 February 2009 at 2:17am | IP Logged | ||
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I have to say that many scripts look beautiful when they are "exotic" (once you get used to them Thai and
Devanagari, among others, are just "normal") but nastaliq arabic script is the most beautiful IMHO. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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