What is the CRAZIEST Alphabet in the Universe?

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    I am a hyperpolyglot gigachad alpha male who is so attractive. I speak so many languages that it isn't even fathomable by the average monolingual beta. If you are a monolingual beta, you should be looking forward to my book.
    These are the craziest alphabets in the whole universe.

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  • @LanguageSimp
    @LanguageSimp  11 місяців тому +1092

    This video was filmed and edited 95% before I went to the hospital. Still taking it relatively easy, but I'm already doing so much better. It is wild how some people actually thought I was joking about having medical issues lol. Thanks for all the kind words and encouragement to those who believed me!
    I'm working hard to finish The Hyperpolyglot Handbook which will be the ultimate language learning guide that will change human history forever. Stay tuned.

    • @Duck_that_edits
      @Duck_that_edits 11 місяців тому +18

      Aww get well soon❤❤

    • @fonsie_games
      @fonsie_games 11 місяців тому +5

    • @Orthodoxan
      @Orthodoxan 11 місяців тому +19

      Get well Vladdy Daddy

    • @sohami2533
      @sohami2533 11 місяців тому +18

      শীঘ্রই সুস্থ হয়ে উঠুন

    • @Droflix
      @Droflix 11 місяців тому +3

      Dude, god luck!

  • @Williamatics
    @Williamatics 11 місяців тому +1184

    I'm surprised you never mentioned the Cherokee alphabet, which was created by a man who had seen the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets but could read neither.

    • @wilh3lmmusic
      @wilh3lmmusic 11 місяців тому +70

      Cherokee uses a syllabary*

    • @AllenYangZzz
      @AllenYangZzz 11 місяців тому +65

      *American and Russian alphabets

    • @katakana1
      @katakana1 11 місяців тому +57

      ​@@wilh3lmmusic Linguists only invented that word as propaganda to save their career

    • @peregrination3643
      @peregrination3643 11 місяців тому +7

      I was thinking about that too. It's like that priest guy did a peak half-assed alphabet creation. And there's no consistent relationship between similar sounds and their shapes.

    • @user6122
      @user6122 11 місяців тому +6

      @@peregrination3643 how dare you disrespect the Mormon Language. It is my native language and English is very hard for me (sorry for bad English). and Mormonism idk insert the rest of the joke here I'm tired.

  • @user-mh6pz8rq9d
    @user-mh6pz8rq9d 11 місяців тому +1077

    What really amazes me that Russian "ю" and Japanese "ゆ" make the same sound. It's an absolutely crazy coincindence

    • @juliatorre8803
      @juliatorre8803 11 місяців тому +167

      fish letters the sequel

    • @pi_da_ras17
      @pi_da_ras17 11 місяців тому +8

      Я кроме конничива, Хаджиме машта, татакае, аригато, сумимасэн, ганбарэ, каваи, неко, гоменасай, нани ничего не знаю... А ну ещё 日本語が分かりません。

    • @hearingninja
      @hearingninja 11 місяців тому +110

      Maybe not a coincidence? This might be a stupid idea, but since Russia and Japan are actually pretty close geographically there’s a chance that they might have influenced each other’s writing system to a small degree

    • @rizkyadiyanto7922
      @rizkyadiyanto7922 11 місяців тому +175

      ​@@hearingninja russians reached siberia only until like 18th century.

    • @user-mh6pz8rq9d
      @user-mh6pz8rq9d 11 місяців тому +21

      @a rhombic dodecahedron yu

  • @samsultales
    @samsultales 7 місяців тому +40

    0:01 That alphabet "FOK" Got me💀

  • @RedPandas3111
    @RedPandas3111 7 місяців тому +23

    My brother, you deserve 30 million subscribers, your content is worth paying for keep up the good work !

  • @browny1969
    @browny1969 11 місяців тому +1389

    we all know the best alphabet on the planet is Ancient Albanian Hand Signs

    • @mctapir
      @mctapir 11 місяців тому +62

      *Ancient Albanian Hand Signs

    • @whannabi
      @whannabi 11 місяців тому +46

      Flap flap flap

    • @giorgospapoutsakis5271
      @giorgospapoutsakis5271 11 місяців тому +13

      Oh you mean AASL

    • @AllenYangZzz
      @AllenYangZzz 11 місяців тому +9

      totally agree

    • @Trolligi
      @Trolligi 11 місяців тому +6

      @@giorgospapoutsakis5271 ah hello there

  • @mcdoos7390
    @mcdoos7390 7 місяців тому +3

    Fun fact: in arabic the letters ب ، ت ، ث ,-Which they sound like "t", "b" , "th" accordingly , were before 708 AD with no dots so it's up to you to understand what letter is which depending on the context...glad they added the dots : )

    • @amoggoma430
      @amoggoma430 7 місяців тому

      I learned arabic when I was in a school, idk if the ث pronounced "th", I always thought it sounds like "ts". or it is just transliteration thing.

    • @vorqoo
      @vorqoo 2 дні тому

      ​@@amoggoma430it's pronounced as "th" as in think. But in transliteration especially by Indonesians, it is written as "ts" for ث because of the existence of "th" in writing which is the letter ط.

  • @MCEnthusiastYT
    @MCEnthusiastYT 8 місяців тому +5

    "the American alphabet" alternate title: "The US plagiarizes the Latin alphabet"
    (I get the joke but still)

  • @albertvonhabsburg
    @albertvonhabsburg 11 місяців тому +254

    The american alphabet is very popular, it even used in ancient roman empire as its standard alphabet for the official language.

    • @alphacraft2370
      @alphacraft2370 11 місяців тому +1

      Pls stfu😂

    • @Aligartornator13
      @Aligartornator13 10 місяців тому +24

      You know how they say: If english was good enough for Jesus it's good enought for America.

    • @unhappyrefrain2924
      @unhappyrefrain2924 10 місяців тому +7

      how tf is it the ‘american alphabet’ that’s not a thing 😵😵😵

    • @unhappyrefrain2924
      @unhappyrefrain2924 10 місяців тому +5

      it’s the ENGLISH alphabet, bc it’s from the ENGLISH language 💀

    • @RahulVerma-iv8ph
      @RahulVerma-iv8ph 10 місяців тому +10

      😅. There is nothing called American alphabet, it's the latin alphabet

  • @aeedgee0153
    @aeedgee0153 11 місяців тому +119

    Traditional Mongolian. It's written up to down unlike all languages. And letters look AMAZING as heck. And doesn't have too much circles.

    • @tin.p0t
      @tin.p0t 11 місяців тому +4

      i agree with you on that. classical chinese looks like that as well, just not as pretty.

    • @jfun1338
      @jfun1338 10 місяців тому +5

      Just like Manchu language

    • @tin.p0t
      @tin.p0t 10 місяців тому +12

      @@jfun1338 manchu and mongolian actually use almost the same script

    • @Istoeumapemba
      @Istoeumapemba 9 місяців тому +1

      It's literally Arabic written at an angle of 90°.

    • @ahmadsantoso9712
      @ahmadsantoso9712 8 місяців тому +1

      Yeah the traditional Mongolian script is super duper amazing awesome fascinating.

  • @VehemenceOfTheDemigods7712
    @VehemenceOfTheDemigods7712 3 місяці тому +5

    7:42
    "One, Two, skip a few, 99"
    Hah, same as Animaniacs when Yakko counts to 100

  • @Hunter-lw8rn
    @Hunter-lw8rn 7 місяців тому +3

    We all know the craziest alphabet is math

  • @etruscanetwork
    @etruscanetwork 11 місяців тому +283

    Fun fact:
    The Vai syllabary was invented in about 1833 in Liberia by Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukɛlɛ, who was inspired by a dream to create a writing system for the Vai language. In 1854 a German philologist, S. W. Koelle, met Duwalu Bukele while researching the Vai language. He was told that in Bukele's dream a tall, venerable-looking white man in a long coat appeared and said "I am sent to you by other white men ... I bring you a book." Bukɛlɛ was then shown many signs, but couldn't remeber them when he woke up, so he made new signs with some friends.
    Another theory is that the Vai syllabary was inspired by the Cherokee syllabary. A number of Cherokee emigrated to West Africa in the early 19th century. One of them, Austin Curtis, married a Vai woman from an influential family and became a Vai chief. It is possible that he was involved in some ways with the creation of the Vai syllabary.
    The syllabary proved popular with the Vai and by the end of the 19th century most of them were using it. In 1962 the Standardization Committee at the University of Liberia standardized the syllabary. A Vai version of the New Testament in the Vai script was published in 2003.

    • @powerstar350
      @powerstar350 11 місяців тому

      Yo wtf

    • @axelleenan3801
      @axelleenan3801 11 місяців тому +7

      Sorry for my ignorance, but there ever been Cherokee in Africa!? Like, Cherokee aren't North American native indigenous? How did they ended up in Africa? Transported to be slaves or something?

    • @EggBenis
      @EggBenis 11 місяців тому +12

      @@axelleenan3801 iirc it was the result of various explusions, kinda like the trail of tears

    • @MonBean17-tu5os
      @MonBean17-tu5os 11 місяців тому +10

      nice profile picture😁kijetesantakalu

    • @alphabetfanthecreator
      @alphabetfanthecreator 11 місяців тому

      🤓

  • @DangDatsCrazy
    @DangDatsCrazy 11 місяців тому +416

    I always thought that " д " from Cyrillic looked the craziest but after open-mindedly watching this video, I still think that " д " looks the craziest AND creepiest.

  • @thatprogramer
    @thatprogramer 5 місяців тому +2

    Oreo's were invented in 1912? same year all those people died on the Titanic! I guess they were so exited for the launch that they forgot to pilot the boat.

  • @modahabbab4576
    @modahabbab4576 8 місяців тому +2

    a video like this but not ironic would actually be cool

  • @Plee.
    @Plee. 11 місяців тому +85

    I love how you are explaining some languages in the most gen Z way possible

  • @LoL_Man_6942O
    @LoL_Man_6942O 11 місяців тому +448

    As a Georgian, I’m glad that Georgian Alphabet is also mentioned here, I can confirm how weird and scribbly it looks and guess what, it’s not our only Alphabet, we LITERALLY have like 3 Alphabets, Asomtavruli (ႠႱႭႫႧႠႥႰႳႪႨ), Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli (მხედრული) but we only use Mkhedruli currently now, we also have removed letters that we used to have in Georgian language like ჱ, ჲ, ჳ, ჴ and ჵ, these letters are still used in other Kartvelian languages like ჲ in Mingrelian, Svan and Laz, there are also additions like the F sound letter (ჶ), the Georgian Schwa (ჷ) and glottal stop which looks like a reversed Georgian y looking letter ყ (ჸ)… 🇬🇪

    • @g0rebunii
      @g0rebunii 11 місяців тому +16

      You are so cool:_D..!I wish I knew that language 😭

    • @LoL_Man_6942O
      @LoL_Man_6942O 11 місяців тому +33

      @@g0rebunii
      It looks a little alien to foreigners but you can still learn the based Khachapuri language if you want 🇬🇪😎✊

    • @kiryuze6527
      @kiryuze6527 11 місяців тому +3

      mec var kartveli

    • @jeremitriusmcstevenson1612
      @jeremitriusmcstevenson1612 11 місяців тому +10

      I learned the Georgian alphabet and I can’t stop mixing up ნ and მ

    • @pi_da_ras17
      @pi_da_ras17 11 місяців тому +2

      This is crazy. They look kinda уй. Cool though

  • @domgamez5158
    @domgamez5158 5 місяців тому +10

    3:17
    Yeah... tottaly a good seat☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

    • @SpeedBloxy
      @SpeedBloxy 2 місяці тому +2

      Me: OOF 😣💀 (dead)

    • @cmcasey1172
      @cmcasey1172 26 днів тому

      I'd rather be on the farhits point 😅

  • @um_internacionalista
    @um_internacionalista 11 місяців тому +41

    Each time you said “american alphabet” I felt stabbed

    • @real.siberian
      @real.siberian 8 місяців тому +4

      😂 I didn’t notice. Is there an American language also?

    • @ahmadsantoso9712
      @ahmadsantoso9712 8 місяців тому +3

      Why? Don't you know there is Americanish?

    • @teresa_wiggins_gallery
      @teresa_wiggins_gallery 7 місяців тому +1

      @@ahmadsantoso9712 You. Need. to. Learn. American-ISH.

  • @chammy2812
    @chammy2812 11 місяців тому +109

    I’m surprised you didn’t mention the Cree syllabary. They just rotate all their letters instead of using vowels

    • @VeryNotExtraordinary
      @VeryNotExtraordinary 10 місяців тому +7

      I need to learn about this now because what

    • @hey7514
      @hey7514 9 місяців тому

      db
      qp

    • @Hydrazinium
      @Hydrazinium 9 місяців тому +1

      I think they do the same in Inuktitut

    • @aremxlle
      @aremxlle 8 місяців тому

      100th like

  • @PC_Simo
    @PC_Simo 6 місяців тому +4

    @Language Simp Linear B (of Bronze Age Greece) is a pretty wild one: They have jerry cans, ankhs, undermined skyscrapers, undermined birdhouses, people, people, who’ve stuck a fork in an electrical outlet, and a bunch of American letters; to name just a few. I seriously recommend checking it out. 😮

  • @jontiswe
    @jontiswe 7 місяців тому +2

    In Africa you did forget about the Ge'ez script (Ethiopia, Eritrea).

  • @MikasCreationsWasTaken
    @MikasCreationsWasTaken 10 місяців тому +77

    As a Serbian the fact you covered our own alphabet is really funny.
    If you guys didn't know these are the sounds our specific letters make.
    Љ - ly, normie letter (ль)
    Њ - ny (or ñ), a bit different (нь)
    Ћ - light cousin of Ч (чь)
    Џ - dzh, a Д and a Ж combined
    Ђ - dj, a letter not even satan can grasp (џь)
    Ј - seriously we just took the american J and turned it into a Й
    Hope that sums it up! (Btw, we also use the American alphabet, we just like our Cyrillic more.)

    • @StrategySphere
      @StrategySphere 10 місяців тому +15

      For me as a Russian speaker who uses Cyrillic, this makes perfect sense.

    • @ReallyEpikUsername
      @ReallyEpikUsername 10 місяців тому +6

      Since you're a serbian... Im gonna ask you a question
      is kosovo a country?

    • @MikasCreationsWasTaken
      @MikasCreationsWasTaken 10 місяців тому +8

      @@ReallyEpikUsername I don't care about that. I'm not into politics.

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 10 місяців тому +2

      @@MikasCreationsWasTaken Сърбин, комуто не го е грижа за Косово?

    • @MikasCreationsWasTaken
      @MikasCreationsWasTaken 10 місяців тому +7

      @@HeroManNick132 I don't give a shit about politics, and I don't give a shit on whether or not Kosovo is a country. I'm just someone on the internet who wants to have fun and watch and create content.

  • @IHateTheE.X.I.T.
    @IHateTheE.X.I.T. 9 місяців тому +160

    Timestamps:
    0:01 Intro
    0:26 The Egyptian Hieroglyphs 🇪🇬
    1:25 The Latin Alphabet 🇻🇦
    1:35 The German Alphabet 🇩🇪
    2:09 The Swedish Alphabet 🇸🇪
    2:23 The Slavic Alphabets 🇷🇺
    3:11 The Serbian Alphabet 🇷🇸
    3:41 The Greek Alphabet 🇬🇷
    4:34 The Sinhalese Alphabet 🇱🇰
    4:51 The Arabic Alphabet 🇵🇸
    5:37 The Hebrew Alphabet 🇮🇱
    5:49 The Thai Alphabet 🇹🇭
    6:02 The Cambodian Alphabet 🇰🇭
    6:11 Albania With Voting 🇦🇱
    6:17 The Burmese Alphabet 🇲🇲
    6:28 The Georgian Alphabet 🇬🇪
    6:34 Zooming Into The Georgian State 🇺🇲
    7:04 The Armenian Alphabet 🇦🇲
    7:21 The Hangul Alphabet 🇰🇷
    7:42 The 3 Japanese Alphabets 🇯🇵
    7:51 His Shirt Got Changed 👕
    7:57 Back To The 3 Japanese Alphabets 🇯🇵
    8:25 The Mandarin Alphabet🇨🇳
    8:53 The Mi'kmac Hieroglyphics 🇨🇦
    9:13 The Tifinagh Alphabet 🇲🇦
    9:45 The Vai Alphabet 🇸🇱 🇱🇷
    10:14 The Lugaboob Language ?
    Edit 1: ok paleonnerd I Changed It
    Edit 2: It's Not American Anymore It's Latin OK

    • @mariamidevadze
      @mariamidevadze 9 місяців тому +1

      Georgia 🇬🇪

    • @susanbing1695
      @susanbing1695 9 місяців тому +8

      Wtf is the lugaboob It’s probably fake but I wish it wasn’t

    • @mugtaba9805
      @mugtaba9805 9 місяців тому +3

      Tifinagh is my favourite

    • @paleonerd9702
      @paleonerd9702 9 місяців тому +3

      It’s the American alphabet not the English.

    • @Ivy30
      @Ivy30 9 місяців тому +2

      Should've added the simlish alphabet, from any game of the Sims franchise, because even if it's not easy to make a coherent sentence in simlish as the language is actually just mostly basic words, the alphabet it's very inspired by the Hebrew alphabet, and it's pretty cool

  • @beijingwazzup2374
    @beijingwazzup2374 5 місяців тому +10

    4:51 “lets teleport to Palestine for a nice Vacation”
    Sorry I suppose to feel sad and shouldn’t have laugh this hard

  • @kirgatik7061
    @kirgatik7061 7 місяців тому +1

    As a Bulgarian I never thought of the ю as a fish but now that you have said it I can't unsee it

  • @Thronecrusher
    @Thronecrusher 11 місяців тому +34

    Самый безумный алфавит - это когда люди делают свои ники из всех этих рандомных букв, которые похожи на их буквы.

    • @Remir_
      @Remir_ 11 місяців тому +3

      Да, например "Дimoн4ik"

    • @ghostinshellshock
      @ghostinshellshock 9 місяців тому

      это литспик

  • @pawel.uszakow
    @pawel.uszakow 10 місяців тому +35

    The church-slavonic cyrillic alphabet has a lot of interesting features. There are 3 different systems of writing: poluustav, vyaz and skoropis. Poluustav was used as a main script in books, it has a lot of diacritics and acronyms for holy words. Vyaz was used for the titles and represents the ligatures of multiple cyrillic characters. Skoropis was used for handwriting.

    • @mearbye
      @mearbye 9 місяців тому +7

      Old Russian(and Slavic) literature tradition is very cool and underrated

    • @friendlyrobotasmr
      @friendlyrobotasmr 6 днів тому

      @@mearbye its old bulgarian language buddy

  • @dum747
    @dum747 7 місяців тому +1

    "and this Ford F-150"

  • @stevenottomanyi154
    @stevenottomanyi154 3 місяці тому +4

    I enjoy your videos and your humor, but I would like to humbly offer a small correction: "ä," "ö," and "ü" are not considered separate letters in the German alphabet. However, letters with diacritics are considered separate letters in some languages, like Hungarian, where the letters a, á, e, é, i, í, o, ó, ö, ő, u, ú, ü, and ű are all considered to be separate letters.
    It seems strange, I know, but it helps to think of it like this: in Hungarian, the letter “á” is really no more a letter “a” with a mere accent than is the letter “m” merely an “n” with an extra leg. And could you speak a bit faster? It makes uptake of videos quicker and, unfortunately, You Tube does not go higher than double speed.

  • @kiara23422
    @kiara23422 11 місяців тому +45

    I hope I can be Language Simp's boyfriend one day

  • @OrangeBunt
    @OrangeBunt 11 місяців тому +10

    7:33 Thanks for censoring, I do not allow profanity in my house. I can 100% not hear this swear word

  • @RandomEG1234
    @RandomEG1234 7 місяців тому +1

    bro, that "instrument" looks like a shotgun
    also, it should be called ligmaboob funny guy

  • @hamzahaidar2084
    @hamzahaidar2084 8 місяців тому +1

    "I h *a* v e no idea how to pronounce ä"___
    Language simp 2023

  • @julbombning4204
    @julbombning4204 11 місяців тому +58

    Now rank the writing systems in a tier list!

    • @_sandy_
      @_sandy_ 10 місяців тому +2

      great idea

  • @GusukeshhsKun2002
    @GusukeshhsKun2002 11 місяців тому +23

    5:56 That letter ง ACTUALLY means snake.

  • @wikwiki
    @wikwiki 7 місяців тому +3

    4:56
    hello. Actually I am from Iran . A Persian country in the Middle East. Persian , or Farsi alphabet is similar to Arabic alphabet but we have some more letters . like "ژ" that has si sound in some words like vision , or "گ" that has /g/ sound .

  • @Cool_kid_the_real
    @Cool_kid_the_real 6 місяців тому +1

    I like how his eyes practically broke in the thumbnail

  • @chloversp5799
    @chloversp5799 11 місяців тому +91

    personally i like the alphabet that was seen in the beta versions of slavic languages from croatia - the Glagolitic alphabet.
    it seems really cool however im sad that the devs removed it before release in favour for the cyrillic alphabet. id love to see it brought back into full release.

    • @smileyface3956
      @smileyface3956 11 місяців тому +11

      As a human who was spawned in croatia I can gurantee you that when I become a dictator I will bring back the glagolitic alphabet

    • @netkv
      @netkv 11 місяців тому +6

      glagolitic was originally made in moravia by greeks

    • @simontollin2004
      @simontollin2004 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@netkv the ethnicity of cyrill and methodius is unkown, all that we know is that they spoke slavic language fluently since they codified what we now call church slavonic

    • @metallizard88
      @metallizard88 11 місяців тому +2

      @@smileyface3956 reading this thread as a bulgarian hurts my soul

    • @smileyface3956
      @smileyface3956 11 місяців тому +2

      @@metallizard88 you can be my pupet in bulgaria

  • @StardustAnlia
    @StardustAnlia 11 місяців тому +47

    The languages written in my sketchbooks are my favorites. For liturgy, we have Anlai which consists of iconic symbols like chinese, but they're pronounced as a stack of pictures of your mouth, like korean. Next, you have Anguli which is those Anlai symbols, but with American and Hebrew words thrown in in an alphabet halfway between the Anlai mouth pictures and the American alphabet. It's used to define new words in Anlai covertly.

    • @Weeping-Angel
      @Weeping-Angel 8 місяців тому +1

      That’s so cool. I wish I could see what it looks like.

  • @ImpossibleEvan
    @ImpossibleEvan 7 місяців тому +4

    Yooooo this channel is great

  • @InsaaniatDost
    @InsaaniatDost 5 місяців тому +1

    ❤ you looks very lovely.
    😊😊😊
    and reason for round circle letters of south and southeast asia, is
    they used to write on dry banana leafs, ,
    straight lines may torn them apart....

  • @holdingpattern245
    @holdingpattern245 11 місяців тому +44

    In actuality though, I think the ancient Sumerian script is a contender for the weirdest. Even if you ignore that it's the first script ever, it's done in a similar style to hieroglyphs, where they try to combine smaller pictograms to make bigger words in a way that's so awkward that they would often need to include clues to help the readers figure out the meaning, but they also had to do this in a script where you could only draw golf tees.

    • @imperialist4862
      @imperialist4862 9 місяців тому +1

      The first script was phonecian

    • @holdingpattern245
      @holdingpattern245 9 місяців тому +1

      @@imperialist4862phoenician came from egyptian

    • @user-gp6kt4yl8f
      @user-gp6kt4yl8f 8 місяців тому +1

      Phoenician was the first phonetic script. Arabic alphabet is easy to learn because it is pretty logical. Same logical is celtic alphabet with lines and stripes(think they call it ogamic)

  • @saathvikbogam
    @saathvikbogam 11 місяців тому +12

    "You've got the letters that look like *Pokémons* "
    Bro just insulted the entire pokémon community by calling the plural "pokémons".

  • @fritzjonzon3628
    @fritzjonzon3628 8 місяців тому +2

    Hi nice video, im from sweden and I need to share a fact about our wonderful letter å. It is pronunced 'ao' and yes that little oreo ring above the a is in fact a little o.

  • @johnnoon9999
    @johnnoon9999 8 місяців тому +2

    I love that youre wearing an MCR shirt! Emobois FTW! 💙

  • @babilobaid5306
    @babilobaid5306 11 місяців тому +16

    5:30 "extremely beautiful writing" proceeds to show news about isis

    • @EditorZyldy
      @EditorZyldy 11 місяців тому +3

      Damn really?

    • @wayacrazy.
      @wayacrazy. 11 місяців тому +1

      I do not speak it so I wouldn’t know

    • @EditorZyldy
      @EditorZyldy 10 місяців тому +1

      @@somtbling5019 wow that is insane

  • @ALAINLEONGJIANXIANGMoe
    @ALAINLEONGJIANXIANGMoe 11 місяців тому +17

    1. ŋ
    What it's called: Eng.
    Who uses it: Many African languages (e.g., Bambara, Bemba, Dinka, Ewe, Ewondo, Fula, Ganda, Maasai, Nuer, Shilluk, Tuareg, Wolof), several North American languages (e.g., Nuu-Chah-Nulth, O'odham), and a few others.
    What it stands for: The "ng" sound as in "sing."
    Where it comes from: The letters n and g merged; it was designed by a typographer in 1619.
    In English: We should have started using it as soon as it was invented, because we need the darn thiŋ. But it only shows up in pronunciation guides.
    2. ɔ
    What it's called: Open o.
    Who uses it: Mainly African languages from several linguistic families; e.g., Aja, Akan, Bambara, Dinka, Ewe, Ewondo, Nuer, Shilluk, Twi.
    What it stands for: The vowel sound you hear before the "r" in "or"; or, in some accents of English, in words such as "caught."
    Where it comes from: The International Phonetic Alphabet. It was made by turning the letter c 180 degrees.
    In English: The English alphabet has never had a place fɔr it, except in some pronunciation guides.
    3. þ
    What it's called: Thorn.
    Who uses it: Icelandic.
    What it stands for: The consonant you hear at the beginning of "thin."
    Where it comes from: The Elder Futhark runic alphabet. It was borrowed by Old English and Old Norse because the Latin alphabet didn't have a letter for the sound.
    In English: This used to be an English letter. It and the letter eth (ð) stood for the sounds at the starts of "thin" and "this," and were often used interchangeably. (Icelandic also uses ð, just for the consonant you hear at the beginning of "this.") Why did we stop using it? Because Europeans didn't use it, and European-trained scribes didn't like it. When we got moveable type, the letter sets didn't include it. For a while the letter y was used to stand in for it, as in ye for þe (yes, the word the - it was not pronounced "ye"), but finally th won out.
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    4. ƿ
    What it's called: Wynn.
    Who uses it: Old English did.
    What it stands for: "W."
    Where it comes from: Those runes again. Notice that this letter lacks the ascender you see on þ, and the bottom of the loop angles down like in a y rather then up as in a p.
    In English: The letter w has only been its own letter for a few hundred years. Before that, languages that needed it often used uu or vv (which used to be the same letter - u was just a variant form of v, and both were used for the sounds we now write u and v), but Old English scribes decided it made more sense to borrow a proper distinct letter for it. But it fell out of use. In fact, today even in modern printings of Old English texts the letter w is used, because ƿ looks too much like p. Wynn? More like can't win!
    5. ƕ
    What it's called: Hwair.
    Who uses it: Gothic did, but no one has spoken Gothic for about 1200 years.
    What it stands for: "Hw."
    Where it comes from: The letters h and v merged.
    In English: Although we used to have hw (or hƿ) all over the place - respelled now as wh - we never used this letter. Don't know ƕy not!
    6. ƣ
    What it's called: Gha.
    Who uses it: various Turkic languages used to; they've all replaced it with other letters now.
    What it stands for: Usually a voiced velar fricative - which is like the "ch" in German "ach" but voiced.
    Where it comes from: A modified version of a handwritten q.
    In English: We've never even thought about using this letter. English did used to have the sound it stands for, but it used a different letter for it.
    7. ȝ
    What it's called: Yogh.
    Who uses it: No one now, but English and Scots used to.
    What it stands for: A voiced velar fricative (see above) or the "y" sound, usually.
    Where it comes from: A handwritten form of g.
    In English: At first, English didn't need this letter; then it did, so it used it. Then it replaced the letter with gh because of those darn Europeans (see þ, above). Then it stopped using the sound. Meanwhile, Scots, also under the influence of European letter sets, replaced the letter with z, giving rise to names like Dalziel (pronounced like "deal"), Menzies (pronounced like "mingis"), and Kenzie (which used to be pronounced like "ken ye").
    8. ʒ
    What it's called: Ezh.
    Who uses it: Some kinds of Sami, which is spoken in Norway and a bit of Russia; also, some African languages.
    What it stands for: In the International Phonetic Alphabet, this stands for the "zh" sound you hear in "pleasure" and "Zhivago," but Sami uses it for a "dz" or "j" sound.
    Where it comes from: A handwritten form of the letter z.
    In English: We've had the sound in our language ever since we borrowed it from French, but we treaʒure our leiʒure too much to exert the effort to use a new letter for it.
    9. ʔ
    What it's called: Glottal stop.
    Who uses it: Mostly North American languages (e.g., Klallam, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Chipewyan).
    What it stands for: The sound between the vowels in "oh-oh" and "uh-uh," and the sound we usually make in place of the "t" in "button" - and that Cockneys (among others) regularly replace "t" with in many places.
    Where it comes from: A development of the form of an apostrophe to look pretty much like a question mark without a dot; it's the symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for this sound.
    In English: Where we need to represent this sound explicitly, we usually just use an apostrophe. So do many languages. But apostrophes are used for so many other things… Do I think we'll ever start using this in normal written English, though? Nuʔ-uh.

    • @piperpotts1969
      @piperpotts1969 11 місяців тому +1

      How long did this take to write

    • @mugtaba9805
      @mugtaba9805 10 місяців тому +1

      @@piperpotts1969 Hours or 0-59 minutes

    • @marwaqoura7804
      @marwaqoura7804 3 місяці тому

      6.Is used in Arabic too with the same sound غ

  • @NorskaFjordskaOfficial
    @NorskaFjordskaOfficial 6 місяців тому +2

    Jokes on you Language simp! I’m already using the Ψ and Ξ in math

  • @nataneldgani7740
    @nataneldgani7740 7 місяців тому +2

    This "upgraded w" is called shìn שי"ן, it's doing the sounds of 'sh' and 's', it's actually need to look like a tooth. This "sliperry little snake" is called lâméd למ"ד, it's doing the sound of 'l', it's actually need to look like a cattle prod.

  • @thecerealprovider3831
    @thecerealprovider3831 10 місяців тому +9

    i LOVE this guy's sense of humour
    its just goofy
    languagesimp is cool

  • @Zestieee
    @Zestieee 11 місяців тому +44

    "History is in the past for a reason."
    One of the most inspiring quotes ever 🙏🏻

  • @maurolionelmisjuegosyo940
    @maurolionelmisjuegosyo940 5 місяців тому +5

    6:35 the fact that he says it’s from American Georgia instead of Asian Georgian XD

  • @shiningstone6771
    @shiningstone6771 7 місяців тому +8

    6:05 Longest letter in the world? Nah then what do you think about this alphabet
    "ಝೋ" ??

    • @user-pi2go7wv4j
      @user-pi2go7wv4j 5 місяців тому +1

      And that one arabic symbol...

    • @TrolsakRovaloj
      @TrolsakRovaloj 4 місяці тому

      ⁠@@user-pi2go7wv4jthat’s more of a ligature (group of letters combined together)

    • @aavyantiwari437
      @aavyantiwari437 Місяць тому

      Why the f**k did you have to remind my about Kannada😭😭😭

  • @trexcath
    @trexcath 4 місяці тому +1

    The Ge'ez script used by the Amharic and Tigrinya languages (which are spoken in Ethiopia) looks pretty wild. Same with cuneiform writing and even more so with the Tibetian alphabet, which, when romanized, will melt your brain. You should also see the Cree syllabary system

  • @undivisible
    @undivisible 11 місяців тому +43

    i can't believe you said cyrillic lacks pizzazz I get rock solid everytime I see ы

    • @eulalawrence2559
      @eulalawrence2559 11 місяців тому +3

      Ыыыыыыы

    • @julianwitkowicz9783
      @julianwitkowicz9783 11 місяців тому +3

      Как в Тыве и Монголии: "ыыргаээыыгхэээы"

    • @undivisible
      @undivisible 11 місяців тому

      @@julianwitkowicz9783 это реално?

    • @undivisible
      @undivisible 11 місяців тому

      @@eulalawrence2559 ыыыыыыыыыы

  • @yaroslavromanyuk5669
    @yaroslavromanyuk5669 11 місяців тому +24

    Mongolian script, for sure. It's like Arabic, but vertical instead of backwards. Awesome shit.

    • @Saladid
      @Saladid 11 місяців тому +1

      How does it appear in yt comments?

    • @yaroslavromanyuk5669
      @yaroslavromanyuk5669 11 місяців тому +6

      @@Saladid
      Ok, let me check. I copied some vertical Mongolian text.
      ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠦᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠰᠣᠨᠢᠨ ᠮᠡᠳᠡᠭᠡ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠰᠦᠯᠵᠢᠶ᠎ᠡ
      Horizontally.

    • @AllenYangZzz
      @AllenYangZzz 11 місяців тому

      @@Saladid You must turn ur head left down 90 degrees to read it

    • @dumbbol4657
      @dumbbol4657 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@yaroslavromanyuk5669so, upsidedown arabic

    • @damian_madmansnest
      @damian_madmansnest 11 місяців тому

      @@Saladid Because you cannot add special markup to display text vertically, you have to turn your head 90° to read it in comments.

  • @sebastiendumais4246
    @sebastiendumais4246 4 місяці тому +3

    Not mentioned, but I like the Inuktitut Syllabary (each character is a full syllable)...... Not a super fan of Korean, but LOVE their alphabet, I think it's the most ingenious and properly adapted to its language.
    Favourite --> Japanese :) I just think it looks beautiful..... (for the same reason people like the color blue... so no reason :) )

  • @merakisayed
    @merakisayed 5 місяців тому +3

    Interestingly the Kannada Language has two letters that also look like among us characters, the ಡ and ಢ 😀😃.

  • @musabsrt
    @musabsrt 11 місяців тому +34

    5:21 Your pronunciation of the letter ح has improved greatly, as it has for all the letters, good work! I look forward to see you speak the language as a native and me to master English!

    • @deutschesmanutter1395
      @deutschesmanutter1395 11 місяців тому +1

      No not really. It sounds like ه

    • @Z_dzrx
      @Z_dzrx 11 місяців тому

      ​@@deutschesmanutter1395 I guess you're right, it still kinda sounds like ه but it definitely got better because before he couldn't even pronounce ح

    • @musabsrt
      @musabsrt 11 місяців тому +3

      @@deutschesmanutter1395 And this is it! The key of pronouncing the letter ح is to avoid overexerting yourself and straining your throat. Instead, focus on learning the language as a whole and practicing with native speakers on a regular basis. With time and consistent effort, you'll find that your pronunciation will naturally become more like that of a native speaker.

    • @mthecatholic1481
      @mthecatholic1481 11 місяців тому

      That's just like the sound of Villagers in Minecraft.

    • @oosha2000
      @oosha2000 11 місяців тому

      That's called the soft h and it's like sighing in Arabic.

  • @pedroproglhof598
    @pedroproglhof598 8 місяців тому +7

    You could mention the Quipo that ancient Incas used for comunication. Btw nice videos! As an austrian, rly apreciate the german flag mentions! Lol Cheers from Brazil

  • @Nets-king
    @Nets-king 8 місяців тому

    You know what's crazy?I made my own conlang based off of English,and it had a letter that looks like a table\Lowercase n but sharp,that make the"Ch"sound and is called Chet, never knew it was a Hebrew letter!

  • @pie-hl8ei
    @pie-hl8ei 8 місяців тому +4

    6:19 hey that's my country

  • @HeisenbergFam
    @HeisenbergFam 11 місяців тому +77

    "im attracted to every woman and man" this man has enough love to give to +8 billion people on the planet

    • @Ironclone
      @Ironclone 11 місяців тому

      He's attractive not attracted, one could only dream to be attractive in the eyes of a hyperpolyglot gigachad alpha male.

    • @thelollykitty
      @thelollykitty 11 місяців тому +10

      non binary people:

    • @doslittleduendes2569
      @doslittleduendes2569 11 місяців тому +1

      Think i seen u before, u are the chemist teacher right?

    • @Janeage
      @Janeage 11 місяців тому +29

      He is attractive, not attracted. He focuses on languages he doesn't have time for love

    • @Krokrodyl
      @Krokrodyl 11 місяців тому +10

      attractive*

  • @hibaaj358
    @hibaaj358 11 місяців тому +62

    As a Berber, I really appreciate you mentioning the tifinagh alphabets in your videos!

    • @julianwitkowicz9783
      @julianwitkowicz9783 11 місяців тому +4

      Yeah, glad he mentioned it. Though unfortunately all the informations I could find seem to confirm that the alphabet practically fell out of use among the berbers in modern times

    • @hibaaj358
      @hibaaj358 11 місяців тому +11

      @@julianwitkowicz9783 honestly, kind of. Because in our country (Morocco), our first language is arabic and tamazight/tashelhit (Berbers' language), and Berbers are the original people of Morocco, but not all of Moroccans can speak it or understand it. And the problem is, we don't even teach tashlehit/tamazight in schools nowadays (expect in few regions (ex : Agadir..etc )). Also to mention that most of the elder population are illiterate, so they can speak it, but doesn't know how to write or read tifinagh... Fortunately, there are tv channels that are dedicated to broadcast movies/series in tamazight/tashelhit with arabic subtitles, and educational programs teaching the language.
      Sorry for long comment, but I tried my best to answer your question and explain the situation in here (Morocco). Btw, Berbers were not only in Morocco, they were in North African/Maghrebin countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya), but they are a lot of words differences (but still same letter ofc).

    • @RaineySteelwing
      @RaineySteelwing 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@hibaaj358 oh thanks for explaining, it was a very curious thing to read!

    • @ramzidz6150
      @ramzidz6150 11 місяців тому +4

      🇩🇿ⵣ

    • @RaineySteelwing
      @RaineySteelwing 11 місяців тому +1

      @@ramzidz6150 Ж

  • @IcheeCOTC
    @IcheeCOTC 24 дні тому

    I've made an entire script for the language you speak in this video. it's got a snake, a husk of corn, and a diamond that doesn't even make a sound

  • @infinityyworks
    @infinityyworks 8 місяців тому

    Tamil is also spoken in Sri Lanka and South India and has a cool script with 247 characters

  • @Lunamanka
    @Lunamanka 11 місяців тому +24

    2:27 It's kinda true. In early 18th century cyrillic alphabet was redisigned by Peter the Great to make it look more -latin- american

  • @SoicBR
    @SoicBR 11 місяців тому +15

    4:41 calling these non-amongus letters is misinformation. They clearly resemble an Among Us character twerking

    • @Syiepherze
      @Syiepherze 11 місяців тому +3

      I'm Sri Lankan and honestly I was thinking the same LOL

    • @AbyPermana-128
      @AbyPermana-128 10 місяців тому +1

      Shake that ass like me shaking rn

  • @ApanArgus
    @ApanArgus 6 місяців тому +2

    Bro ain't no way I think the hardest one is the Amharic letters and Syriac.

  • @Purwapada
    @Purwapada 11 місяців тому +39

    p.s my username is written in the gigachad javanese script
    also the various Mongolian scripts look cool.
    not to mention cuneiform which uses rebus and pictograms which is made by pressing sticks into smartphone shaped squares of clay.
    'Ditema tsa Dinoko' in South Africa looks like a bunch of triangle shaped flags and is really cool. Other weird african ones are 'Edo' script looks like little multi-coloured lamb chops. And the 'Mandombe' script looks like a greek labarynth in birds eye view.

    • @loveurself764
      @loveurself764 11 місяців тому +1

      I agree

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada 11 місяців тому

      I just found out about something called 'lusona' I dont even know if it is classed as a writing system but it's cool AF

    • @daniellin5373
      @daniellin5373 11 місяців тому +3

      The Hanunó'o script writing from below to the top really surprises me. And the Avoiuli writing system looks like a bunch of knots that i got when i put my earphone into my bag/pocket 😂

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada 11 місяців тому +1

      @@daniellin5373 oh wow

    • @tribaounidadedonstania
      @tribaounidadedonstania 11 місяців тому

      PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO TYPE JAVANESE 😭😭

  • @michaelmuller1433
    @michaelmuller1433 11 місяців тому +9

    Ю - that‘s not a fish, THAT is a fish: ゆ (and both the Russian and the Japanese fish are pronounced yu, fascinating)

    • @atsukorichards1675
      @atsukorichards1675 10 місяців тому

      I think Japanese "fish" isn't pronounced as "yu". It (魚) is read as "uo", "sakana" or "gyo."

    • @michaelmuller1433
      @michaelmuller1433 10 місяців тому

      @@atsukorichards1675 I was talking about the hiragana ゆ that looks like a fish. Not about the actual kanji for fish. 😄

    • @atsukorichards1675
      @atsukorichards1675 10 місяців тому +1

      @@michaelmuller1433 oh, I see. But, alas, I can never see ゆ as a fish because I have seen and used it as a character/letter for a long time. (Though it makes me think of a bath, especially a public bath and Onsen/hot springs, for this letter is also for "湯/yu/hot water.")

  • @joshthemann
    @joshthemann 8 місяців тому +1

    THE FACT THAT AT 1:05 IT MAKES THE BEEP SOUND BUT YOU CAN STILL HEAR WHAT HE SAYS 💀

  • @Luhioz_your_man
    @Luhioz_your_man 9 місяців тому +22

    0:00 start
    0:31 Egyptian Symbols (Arabic) اْرآپتء
    1:41 German (Germany) Deutsch
    1:45 (German) Special Characters / Ää Öö Üü ẞß
    2:26 Cyrillic (start)
    2:41 (Cyrillic) Ы Р Н В
    2:51 (İt makes the soft g sound)
    2:59 (Cyrillic) letter Ю
    3:06 the ꙮ
    3:13 (Cyrillic) Џ letter
    3:19 (Cyrillic) Ћ , Њ letters
    3:32 (Cyrillic) Ћ , Ђ letters
    3:46 (Greek) Αα , Ββ letters

  • @TheCCBoi
    @TheCCBoi 11 місяців тому +14

    4:42 my favorite letters: twerking spring breaker slapping their booty.

  • @3_14pie
    @3_14pie 5 місяців тому +2

    "American alphabet" was the most american thing I heard today

  • @kirilvelinov7774
    @kirilvelinov7774 7 місяців тому

    Road signs also have their own alphabet!
    Person=walk
    Red=no
    Blue=yes
    Red+Person=don't walk
    Yellow=caution

  • @pythocality8269
    @pythocality8269 10 місяців тому +12

    I am flattered that you didn't say anything about the Sugondese language, it is so distinct and unique! The first letter of the alphabet is pronounced as zsch, and the alphabet is a reworked alien alphabet.

    • @culome
      @culome 10 місяців тому

      Sugondese

  • @geo3098
    @geo3098 11 місяців тому +16

    Thank you for mentioning Georgian Alphabet - 6:28 - მადლობა, რომ ახსენე ქართული ანბანი (isn't it beautiful )

  • @BEAUTY-N-BRAINZZZ
    @BEAUTY-N-BRAINZZZ 8 місяців тому

    0:07 not the lazy eye 😭😭😭

  • @tjmieczynskyj3393
    @tjmieczynskyj3393 8 місяців тому +1

    Love your videos

  • @Gigagamerrays
    @Gigagamerrays 11 місяців тому +6

    my favorite writing system is probably the Edo script which uses colors to distinguish between sounds, basically you can have the same shape but a different color and it's a different sound

  • @kirilvelinov7774
    @kirilvelinov7774 День тому

    The Chinese word for "compression stocking" literally means "complete leg covering" like a really long sock that athletes wear

  • @Nets-king
    @Nets-king 8 місяців тому +1

    4:03 the letters are pronounced
    Sfé(I think)

  • @exploshaun
    @exploshaun 11 місяців тому +7

    Describing the Thai alphabet as a snake bent in unnatural shapes has never been more accurate to me.

  • @dayanbalevski4446
    @dayanbalevski4446 11 місяців тому +9

    Bulgarian is the simplest and most straightforward of the Cyrillic alphabets. It is also the place of origin for the Cyrillic alphabet.

  • @sabbysky
    @sabbysky 2 місяці тому

    I'm learning Akkadian and Sumerian right now, love the Cuneiform symbols!
    Sumerian is proving to be crazy though, tons of ways to read the same symbols. So it's always a mess trying to find the right combination that makes up real words and a sentence.

  • @debmalyalodh1
    @debmalyalodh1 4 місяці тому +2

    7:45 Kanji is a freaking Indian drink I'm not kidding.

  • @dragonmanover9000
    @dragonmanover9000 11 місяців тому +14

    1:07 Perfect censor

    • @mranima748
      @mranima748 9 місяців тому +1

      The fact it doesn’t even work 💀💀💀

  • @springlink3188
    @springlink3188 11 місяців тому +9

    8:23 If you stare at this long enough, you can see a guy sitting on the toilet to the right, with the bathroom toiletries behind them, then the big letter I is the wall, and on the other side of the door is someone whose head looks like a tree walking towards the foreground.

  • @Delta-V1
    @Delta-V1 7 місяців тому

    And please remember that nearly all of these alphabets were derived from the ancient Syrian alphabet "Phoenician, Ugaritic".

  • @mark.147
    @mark.147 3 місяці тому +1

    Wait until he hears about Glagolitic Script

  • @ifnan756
    @ifnan756 11 місяців тому +8

    I can't believe that he didn't mention the Ethiopian alphabet they got the coolest letters in Africa

  • @melon_69-420
    @melon_69-420 11 місяців тому +4

    The iconic looking away with one eye never gets old 😂

  • @j7ndominica051
    @j7ndominica051 4 місяці тому +3

    In France they have more accented letters unless the string is capitalized, and they magically turn into regular letters. The A-ring-above letter is a Stargåte. That's a strange lowercase Beta in a more-or-less Times typeface. The Psy looks like a candle holder. Most of these foreign alphabets recycle similar shapes for different letters that are hard to tell apart. The Indian alphabet looks like the letters have been hung to dry on a clothes line.

    • @FlopgamingOne
      @FlopgamingOne 2 дні тому

      French accented letters don't turn into regular letters when capitalized, wdym?

  • @Le_Ocelot
    @Le_Ocelot 5 місяців тому +1

    As someone who is from Georgia (the state) I can confirm we have lots of circles in our writing

  • @ahmedsharif367
    @ahmedsharif367 11 місяців тому +6

    The fact that you didn't mention the AMHARIC alphabet of Ethiopia which is one of the older in Africa

  • @tillettman
    @tillettman 9 місяців тому +3

    Amharic writing looks like what you find written on the side of an alien spaceship

  • @carlpatrickprospero6911
    @carlpatrickprospero6911 8 місяців тому +1

    I like the "Baybayin" which is the first alphabet in Philippines