What's your favorite alphabet?

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meifeng wrote:
If you have a Macbook, it's possible to add these languages, then you'll be able to input these languages. I don't know about @leosmith input methods, but I use hanyu pinyin to generate Chinese characters, and for Thai, you can show a Thai keyboard on Macs as well.

Yes, same here.

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I do really love Thai alphabet. It is artistic and symbolizes Thai art.

ฉันชอบอักษรไทย ดูเป็นศิลปะ เป็นสัญลักษณ์ศิลปะไทย

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I like the Thai alphabet as well, it looks very pretty. I do get a bit annoyed when certain advertisements try to make the Thai alphabet resemble the English alphabet (well, partly also because it makes it harder for me to read), e.g. when they make the ร look like R, instead of just ร

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Tarntawan wrote:
I do really love Thai alphabet. It is artistic and symbolizes Thai art.
ฉันชอบอักษรไทย ดูเป็นศิลปะ เป็นสัญลักษณ์ศิลปะไทย

The Thai alphabet is great as well, I too like it :) 

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Добро пожаловать в Комитет государственной безопасности. Посетители должны временно отдать свои паспорта. Наслаждайтесь своим пребыванием.


Cyrillic. Gotta love it.  

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Jess.PWinkler wrote:
There are so many different alphabets
http://aboutworldlanguages.com/writing-systems

I agree what a great link! I do not have a favorite but they are all so unique!

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Phillip.Laplana wrote:
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Cyrillic. Gotta love it. :slightly_smiling_face:

Одлична е кирилицата :D :D 

(I had to reply in cyrillic cause it's not often I get to use it on the internet haha :D )

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dragonsky wrote:
Phillip.Laplana wrote:
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Cyrillic. Gotta love it. :slightly_smiling_face:

Одлична е кирилицата :D :D
(I had to reply in cyrillic cause it's not often I get to use it on the internet haha :D )


Ah! You used Macedonian, though! What other languages use Cyrillic besides Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian.... ? Belarusian maybe?

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Bosnian-Croat-Serbian, widely used in Central Asia as well - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.

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Wow, I didn't know about Central Asia. I wonder how old this alphabet is.

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Phillip.Laplana wrote:
dragonsky wrote:
Phillip.Laplana wrote:
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Cyrillic. Gotta love it. :slightly_smiling_face:

Одлична е кирилицата :D :D
(I had to reply in cyrillic cause it's not often I get to use it on the internet haha :D )

Ah! You used Macedonian, though! What other languages use Cyrillic besides Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian.... ? Belarusian maybe?

I think most of ex Yugoslavia with the exception of Croatia and Slovenia. Couple of ex-USSR countries as well


meifeng wrote:
Bosnian-Croat-Serbian, widely used in Central Asia as well - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.

Thanks for sharing the info on some of the "asian ex-USSR" countries :)

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