Most Beautiful Written Language? (deal, Asian, history)

[Mahhammer]

Pop Quiz! What determined why Arabic was historically written right to left while the roman alphabet left to right?
Cookie for whoever answers correctly, and maybe for witty answers

[jhas]

Originally Posted by ohhwanderlust

Tibetan

tibetan is like the hipster Devanagari

[jtur88]

Finnish is the most beautiful-looking language that uses the Roman alphabet, using a very limited variety of letters and a lot of umlauts.

Suomi on kaunein näköinen kieltä käyttävät latinalaisia aakkosia, että käyttämällä hyvin vähän erilaisia kirjaimia ja paljon ääkkösiä.

When I was a stamp collector, and hanled lots of corners of envelopes and other posal stationary, I was alwasy amazed at the uniformity of handwriting within a country. I could tell at a glance whether an envelope was addressed by a German, French, English, or whatever nationality. Penmanship was very rigorously taught in the schools a century ago, and all children were forced to write in longhand exactly the same way, in conformity with the way it was taught in their particular country.

I think, without a doubt, the ugliest alphabet is the one recently devised for use in the indigenous languages of theNorth American arctic:

ᐱᒋᐊᕐᖕᓂᕐᖕᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅ ᑕᕝᕙᓃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅᓗ ᒎᑎᒦᑉᐳᖅ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅᓗ ᒎᑎᐅᕗᖅ. ᑖᓐᓇ ᐱᒋᐊᕐᖕᓂᕐᖕᒥᑦ ᒎᑎᒦᑉᐳᖅ; 3ᓱᓇᓕᒫᑦᓯᐊᑦ ᑖᑦᓱᒨᓇ ᐱᓐᖑᖅᑎᑕᐅᓯᒪᕗᑦ; ᑖᑦᓱᒪᓗ ᐊᓯᐊᒍᑦ ᐱᓐᖑᖅᑎᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᖃᓐᖏᓚᖅ

[odanny]

Chinese, hands down. And not the simplified Chinese, but the traditional.

[Bettafish]

Originally Posted by

There is many separate high level communication languages in ultimate human expression. My favorite languages usually have infinite depth in written, and spoken version, and able to involve endless intellectual stimulation, including professional thinking, and high variety entertainment. Tons of those eloquent sophisticated, and magnificent languages exist in Europe, Asia, Americas, Africa, and Oceania.

French, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Polish, Croatian, Swedish/Norwegian/Danish, English, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Russian, Turkish, Hindi, Vietnamese, Thai, and Georgian are all wonderful, endlessly interesting prominent languages on Planet Earth.


I believe in written version, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Georgian, Thai, Khmer, Hindi Indian, Arabic, South Slavic far East Slavic Cyrillic (Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian), and French, Czech, Malay, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Polish, and Vietnamese (French-Vietnamese languages said are all ironically in Latin writing system version of communication. Although, they all usually feel extremely different, and separate from each other depending on language combination in reference of official identification) are all especially beautiful, high amount of in depth rhythm, and mystical languages of interest.



Noteworthy Innovative Google Representative samples in some of those languages, in original reference of Google Translator Language Switching Service, 5 for Now, Same Exact Paragraph of Words In Different Languages

French- Il ya beaucoup de langues de communication de haut niveau séparées dans l'expression ultime de l'homme. Mes langues préférés ont généralement une profondeur infinie à l'écrit, et la version parlé, et capable d'impliquer la stimulation intellectuelle sans fin, y compris la pensée professionnelle, et de divertissement de haute gamme. Tonnes de ces langues sophistiqués, et de magnifiques éloquents existent en Europe, Asie, Amériques, Afrique, et en Océanie.

Georgianარსებობსმრავალიცალკეულიმაღალიდონისკომუნიკაციაენებზესაბოლოოადამია
ნისგამოხატვის.ჩემისაყვარელიენებზე, როგორცწესი,აქვსუსასრულოსიღრმისდაწერილიდანათქვამივერსია,
დაშეუძლიაჩართვაგაუთავებელიინტელექტუალურისტიმულაცია,მათშორისპროფესიულია
ზროვნებისდამაღალიმრავალფეროვანიგასართობი.ტონაიმმჭერმეტყველიდახვეწილიდაბრწყინვალეენისარ
სებობდესევროპის, აზიის,ამერიკის, აფრიკისდაოკეანეთის.

Mandarin Chinese 有一個在人類的終極表達很多不同的高層次的溝通語言。我最喜歡的語言通常有無限的深度以書面，口頭和版本，並且能夠參與無休止的智力刺激，包括專業的思維，和高綜藝娛樂節目。在歐洲，亞洲，美洲，非洲和大洋洲存在的那些口若懸河成熟，華麗的語言噸。

Malay- Terdapat banyak bahasa komunikasi tahap tinggi berasingan dalam ungkapan manusia muktamad. Bahasa kegemaran saya biasanya mempunyai kedalaman tak terhingga dalam ditulis, dan versi yang disebut, dan dapat melibatkan rangsangan intelektual yang tidak berkesudahan, termasuk pemikiran profesional dan pelbagai hiburan yang tinggi. Tan yang fasih bahasa canggih, dan megah wujud.

Czech Tam dispozici je řada samostatných komunikačních vysoké úrovni jazyků v konečném lidského výrazu. Moje oblíbené jazyky obvykle mají nekonečnou hloubku v písemné a mluvené verzi, a mohli zapojit nekonečné intelektuální stimulace, včetně odborného myÅ¡lení a vysoké odrůdy zábavy. Tuny těchto výmluvných sofistikovaných a nádherným jazyky existují v Evropě, Asii, Severní a Jižní Americe, Africe a Oceánii.


Why is the original poster not including Georgian, Thai, and Khmer in available poll options?

The Chinese translation is totally crap.

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by jtur88

ᐱᒋᐊᕐᖕᓂᕐᖕᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅ ᑕᕝᕙᓃᓚᐅᖅᐳᖅ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅᓗ ᒎᑎᒦᑉᐳᖅ, ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅᓗ ᒎᑎᐅᕗᖅ. ᑖᓐᓇ ᐱᒋᐊᕐᖕᓂᕐᖕᒥᑦ ᒎᑎᒦᑉᐳᖅ; 3ᓱᓇᓕᒫᑦᓯᐊᑦ ᑖᑦᓱᒨᓇ ᐱᓐᖑᖅᑎᑕᐅᓯᒪᕗᑦ; ᑖᑦᓱᒪᓗ ᐊᓯᐊᒍᑦ ᐱᓐᖑᖅᑎᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᖃᓐᖏᓚᖅ[/b]

I know, yuck. Looks like wingdings. Lol.

[rent.in.nyc]

Arabic for me, definitely.

[rent.in.nyc]

Originally Posted by 2e1m5a

I've always loved how Arabic writing looks but also Hebrew and Cambodian.

I agree with Arabic!

[erasure]

And I always thought that this kind of writing looks cool;

[marlaver]

Georgian alphabet is pretty dope IMO: