Which alphabet do you find the most beautiful and why?

[curiousnorway]

Please explain why. : ) #Alphabet #Beautiful #Language

Chinese

Arabic

Russian

Greek

Sanskrit

Myanmar (Burmese)

Other (Explain what and why)

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My favorite alphabets is Arabic, Sanskrit and Chinese. : )

[Zorax]

Chinese, Japanese and Korean are the most beautiful in my opinion, but I also like Sanskrit and Arabic.
I like Russian too, but I kinda prefer old Slavic Glagolitic script:

http://www.ancientscripts.com/images/gl_ocs.gif

I'd also like to add Celtic Ogham script:

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Runic alphabet from Scandinavia is nice too:

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Don't forget about ancient Mayan script, weird but quite interesting:

www.ancientscripts.com/images/maya_syllabary_2.gif

And finally, the Inca script also known as Quipu, made out of knotted strings of cotton:

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[Zorax]

Thanks for the MHO

[NineBreaker]

They're all great, but my absolute favorite is Arabic calligraphy. Why? Because of zoomorphic calligraphy.

They're all great, and Sanskrit is my 2nd favorite because of how the letters in one word are connected by one line. One of the reasons why I love the Arabic script is that it's letters are usually connected at well.

[tsunayoshi]

Chinese, Arabic and Japanese I guess. Well I'm Chinese myself so I may be biased, but I just like the Chinese language a lot, there's no particular reason why.

[curiousnorway]

It's not biased at all to like the Chinese language. I doubt you're liking it because of your nationality alone. Aesthetically wise it's very beautiful and many foreigners are adoring it as well.

[tsunayoshi]

Well it's definitely pleasant to know many foreigners appreciate the Chinese language! Another reason is probably because each Chinese character has its own meaning and story behind how it's written! 😊

[curiousnorway]

It's not uncommon for people in the tattoo community to get a tattoo in either Chinese, Japanese or Arabic.

[1derfulguy]

Went to China last year, visited this guy who lived in a historical building and had a calligraphy studio upstairs. He made me a banner for free. Everyone was so nice. Amazing country.

[tsunayoshi]

@1derfulguy that's great! I wish I had the chance to see it too.

[1derfulguy]

Well, if you're ever in Huili, Sichuan, you could stop by :)

[Plumy]

I think any alphabet writing can look beautiful depending on the calligraphy 🖋

[InTimoreDei]

So hilarious when girls get Arabic tattoos on their wrists written in a boring typeface as if they took it from Google translate. Arabic calligraphers can write it so nice.

[Plumy]

I like calligraphy writings from renaissance era, they are so beautiful, with long traits and full-bodied
www.bellascrittura.eu/.../1WP_20160320_009.jpg

[InTimoreDei]

Love it!

[xZoeyx]

Greek. I'm so used to seeing Arabic that I'm kinda tired of it lol

[pingiluv]

I think Japanese or Korean or Arabic

[Lucidi]

agreed, Korean looks beautiful

[Wolframium]

I wanted to go with latin, since latinum is the best language ever, but I decided to go with Greek, since it's largely represented in math and physics, and I have bi boner for them.
I would like to construct my own, though. 32 basic letters, 16 of them with modification. This in normal and capital. Then 12 numbers, since base-12 si superior in every way, so thats 12 numbers and another 12 small, for decimals. That's total 120 symbols, after that anothers like comma, dot, and so on. No decima separator though. No need. :-) Thousand separator would be space, so again, no need.

[Anonymous]

Chinese is just dreadful. I work in a neuroscience lab with all Chinese people. I’m literally the only non-Chinese person (I’m American).

We usually label our things with Chinese characters, since they’re often easier to fit onto smaller items (e. g. test tubes and pipettes).

For example, when we have to label what time of day a rat is born, we use “早” for “morning,” since the Chinese character is much more space-efficient for tagging purposes.

Though, I do have to say, Chinese characters can look very beautiful if written calligraphically. The complexity is somewhat hypnotic. Lol.

[mrsatori]

Tibetan's wonderful. Just looking at it is meditation by itself. As to Sanskrit, it looks quite beautiful, but the curves of the Bengali script are what I really adore. I couldn't find a decent picture of it, but you may check out Bengali Wikipedia to catch a glimpse of it.

[tartaarsaus]

I like the history of the Hebrew alphabet. I also like that it was pretty much a dead language, and then revitalised in the state of Israel. It can look weird af though. But I'll go for the Hebrew alphabet because of the above reasons.

[JimRSmith]

Greek and Arabic, I think, because of the shapes of the letters. They are less blocky than the others.

[Pocahontas2000]

Russian? Really? Language is beautiful, but alphabet? Nahh

[Naydyonov]

the alphabet is a masterpiece, Hello!!

[Pocahontas2000]

@Naydyonov Not really. At least compared to my alphabet It's nothing special. But Russian language is very melodic and one of my fa ourites definitely.

[Naydyonov]

lel, but the old one is quite interesting

[Pocahontas2000]

@Naydyonov I don't know the old one though.
By the way, that's a Georgian script and that's what I call a masterpiece :)
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[Pocahontas2000]

@CuriousNorway Georgian alphabet- that's my answer on your question.

[Naydyonov]

True dat

Do you know Georgian or Russian?

[Pocahontas2000]

@Naydyonov I know both, Georgian and Russian. I am Georgian myself.

[Naydyonov]

Great

In Tbilisi?

[Pocahontas2000]

@Naydyonov yep. My home city ^_^ How about ya?

[Naydyonov]

Рядом с Торонто сити 😎
Haven't been to Georgia

[Pocahontas2000]

@Naydyonov cool. Are you going to visit it someday?

[Naydyonov]

Don't know, probably should.

My mother says that the food was quite good, though that was in like 1980 😃

[Pocahontas2000]

@Naydyonov It's still good haha

[Naydyonov]

how'd you learn Russian?

[Pocahontas2000]

@Naydyonov Russian is taught in schools and also mom is very good at it, so she helped me at studying. Many people who were born in Soviet era speak fluent Russian and I often watch movies in Russian too.

[Naydyonov]

What movies for example?

[Pocahontas2000]

@Naydyonov European ones that are not in English, I always watch their Russian translated versions. Also watch Russian movies, just yesterday saw Dvizhenie Vverh

[Naydyonov]

The movie about Soviet basketball?
(Get a Russian keyboard :) )

[Pocahontas2000]

@Naydyonov Yep. I liked it a lot. I don't get along woth Russian keyboard xD

[Naydyonov]

You're just a lazy bum :)

[Pocahontas2000]

@Naydyonov ahahaha that's exactly me typing on Russian keyboard
www.gifbin.com/.../...on_the_computer_keyboard.gif

[Naydyonov]

Poor child

[egyptiangirl]

That's not Arabic language I think it's Urdu and yes the alphabet looks the same but It's not Arabic.

[clampfan101]

Where’s Japanese? The only one that comes close is Chinese.

[curiousnorway]

Couldn't add more polls because of GAG.

[clampfan101]

Aha.
Anyway, I think Japanese and Chinese look like art.

[curiousnorway]

Agree.

[clampfan101]

Unfortunately, that part of what makes learning Japanese half as translating Egyptian pyramids. lol

[bubblybex]

I don't really like them that much they seem kinda chunky i like the English alphabet better

[SirRexington]

These are letters and not words?

Man I'm glad I speak English.

[ItsMeJT]

I like how the phoenician alphabet wasn't an option

[NineBreaker]

The Tifinagh Alphabet is a dependent of Phoenician through the South Arabian Musnad script. I think it's the only living alphabet that resembles the Phoenician the most.

[ItsMeJT]

Interesting! Thank you kind sir ima check that out

[NineBreaker]

I mean "like* the South Arabian Musnad".

[NineBreaker]

No prob. 👍

[Shimy]

I love Korean alphabet, I don't know maybe because it look somewhat geometric

[Nina12346]

I like Korean , chinese, Japanese, Hindi. It looks cool and awesome when someone writes it.

[Dxk007]

Why no English in this poll🤔
I'll go with greek in this one.

[InTimoreDei]

English isn't an alphabet. English uses the Latin alphabet.

[Dxk007]

Well, Sanskrit and Tamil are the first spoken languages so, Latin would have taken its words from it.

[InTimoreDei]

Oldest SPOKEN language, yes, so it has nothing to do with writing an alphabet. But the oldest written languages are Sumerian and Irish Gaelic.

[Dxk007]

Well, alphabet comes is a part of the language.
And, I'll ask u to get your facts right.

[InTimoreDei]

Some languages were spoken first and an alphabet developed later.

[Rojaasu]

Japanese it seems so elegant especially on my cooking knives

[Anonymous]

I like the western one, Japanese katakana and Russian.

[Kakaile]

Im learning Arabic because its so beautiful :)

[Anonymous]

Georgian alphabet. The letters look like heart shape.

[Whatthefluff]

They're all sort of cool. I'm going with Arabic.

[jimyee]

No English? Cursive English is very beautiful.

[InTimoreDei]

English isn't an alphabet. English uses the Latin alphabet.

[jimyee]

Either way you don't have the Latin alphabet. However modern cursive English is very different that any forms of cursive used in old Latin so cursive English would be under it's own heading.

[InTimoreDei]

Well, yes, in a way it is in its own heading. It's still the latin alphabet though. Just a different typeset/typeface such as "ronde" which is a cursive typeset from 1878 developed in France.

[SweedyPie]

Arabic.. For the way it flows! Then Korean

[ladsin]

I've always liked Kanji.

[hasrett]

Voted for Greek just because I know it.

[Patrickjv]

Latin alphabet.

[Patrickjv]

Easy to learn and most coherent

[TheUglyMonk]

Chinese is the easiest to learn.

[Patrickjv]

Yeah no

[curiousnorway]

I've heard that the Chinese grammar isn't very difficult to learn, but that remembering the signs and pronunciation is.

[ultimega]

Japanese katakana and kanji

[omgjassy]

My own.

[curiousnorway]

Which one is that?

[omgjassy]

Jk I like Chinese and Arab.

[Flower-petal]

Sanskrit and Arabic are beautiful to me

[weirdwriter79]

Greek looks freaking awesome.

[weirdwriter79]

Curious, you got me How to speak Greek. It's hard.

[standardguy]

The modern hebrew alphabeth is lacking -- why?

[Elenor-1]

Arabic it’s just beautiful

[βιυεsκγs]

I love Arabic and Greek😍😍

[tartaarsaus]

The choice for the Greek alphabet was probably not hard considering your name

[βιυεsκγs]

Haha I clicked Arabic tho ngl xD

[tartaarsaus]

Why tho?

[βιυεsκγs]

I want to learn Arabic xD

[tartaarsaus]

Lol why do you wanna learn Arabic? I agree it sounds like a nice language and looks nice

[TheUglyMonk]

It is a pain in the ass to learn.

[tartaarsaus]

@TheUglyMonk I imagine all the dialects are a pain in the ass

[TheUglyMonk]

@tartaarsaus You should always focus on learning only one dialect and be pro in it, you'll learn the rest in no time afterwards.

[tartaarsaus]

That makes sense. My grandma could speak 4 Arabic dialects if I'm not mistaken

[TheUglyMonk]

@tartaarsaus I could speak most of them but I understand all of them, they are really easy to learn and there's no huge difference.

[βιυεsκγs]

Wow, which nationality are you:)

[TheUglyMonk]

The Mother of All Arab Countries, Egypt.

[βιυεsκγs]

@TheUglyMonk wow I love Egypt 😍😍😍

[ScarletAngelic]

Japanese

[misaqi-s-fan]

I think Thai😍

[martsa]

Japanese

[mikayla106]

greek

[LittlePrince85]

Russian.

[AlexEfron]

Greek then Arabic

[Fauzillic_Bolt]

Greek, by far.

[Rosewanda]

Italian.

[That2kKid21]

Greek

[That2kKid21]

I said greek just because of the font if that's what you wanna call it

[Anonymous]

Russian is so cool.