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| jbbar Senior Member Belgium Joined 5798 days ago 192 posts - 210 votes  Speaks: English | Message 9 of 69 28 February 2009 at 2:17am | IP Logged | ||
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Devanagari ranks very high on my "list." Out of all Indian writing systems that I know of, I do find it the most appealing to the eye. Gujarati looks fairly nice to me as well. On the other hand, I don't like Tamil and Malayalam at all. No offense.
I feel the same way about Hebrew as Emilia; I would describe it as harmonious. Arabic generally looks gracious but it does depend on the type of calligraphy used. I don't like Kufi much but Persian style is great. However, I think that the best of them all is the Eastern Syriac or "Nestorian" script. It looks somewhere in between modern Naskh-style Arabic and Hebrew square script. Very beautiful. Korean script in traditional calligraphy is very nice to look at but it looks rather plain to me in most modern fonts. I also like Lao quite a lot. Looks better than Thai and Khmer to me. Oh, does anyone else here love Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs? ;) jbbar Edited by jbbar on 28 February 2009 at 2:18am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Frisco Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6854 days ago 380 posts - 398 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 10 of 69 28 February 2009 at 3:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Hieratic and Carolingian miniscule are a couple of my favorites from the past. Modern ones that I like are Armenian and Georgian.
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| john234 Newbie United States Joined 6375 days ago 15 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 69 28 February 2009 at 5:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I find the Burmese script aesthetically pleasing. A block of Burmese text makes me think of bubbles rising in an aquarium.
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| formiko Nonaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6209 days ago 848 posts - 855 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Esperanto, Indonesian, Yoruba, Cherokee, Russian, German, French Studies: Mandarin, Ancient Greek | Message 12 of 69 28 February 2009 at 6:02am | IP Logged | ||
Same with me. I learned a bit of Burmese for a missionary trip, but not the writing system, since it would take too long.All the words look the same! But I love Armenian, Georgian, Aramaic and Tibetan the best. Korean is too blocky, like katakana. But the best is Javanese and Balinese. I get all gooshy when I see it.:) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Qinshi Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5751 days ago 115 posts - 183 votes Speaks: Vietnamese*, English Studies: French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 13 of 69 28 February 2009 at 7:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Personally I love the Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic and Devanagari scripts alot. However, my favourite would have to be the Tibetan script which is aesthetically pleasing.
ཀ ཁ ག ང ཅ ཆ ཇ ཉ ཏ ཐ ད ན པ ཕ བ མ ཙ ཚ ཛ ཝ ཞ ཟ འ ཡ ར ལ ཤ ས ཧ ཨ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5807 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 14 of 69 28 February 2009 at 7:59am | IP Logged | ||
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My favourite is Devanagri, but I also like Kannada, Tibetan, Hanzi/Kanji, Arabic and Georgian.
Hebrew and Tamil are also nice, because they have a "futuristic look", expecially in some letterings. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5902 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 15 of 69 28 February 2009 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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it seems not to rank very high with most but I like cyrillic
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| theallstar Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5800 days ago 81 posts - 85 votes Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 16 of 69 28 February 2009 at 3:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd have to say I love the Japanese script a lot, even though at first it seems like such a mess of four different ways of writing :) Besides Japanese I love Korean, Mandarin and Cyrillic.
For me the script of a language is a major reason for wanting to learn it... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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