10 Languages with IMPOSSIBLE Alphabets

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  @storylearning · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

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• MA

  @matthewkennedy5007 · 1 year ago

  Thai and Tibetan writing are very difficult to read because their writing hasn&apos;t changed for centuries; yet, people still use them to this day.

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• AP

  @ApprentiPolyglotte · 1 year ago

  I tried to learn some Georgian, it&apos;s incredibly complicated, but the alphabet is easy. 33 letters, no lower or upper case, no ligatures, you spell as you pronounce and vice versa.

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• NU

  @nuzayerov · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m Bengali and Ive noticed that how the Tibetan script works is very similar to how the Bengali script or other North Indian scripts work, except, Tibetan has a lot of silent letters. Its like the French of South Asia lol

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• SA

  @sarahraven2876 · 1 year ago

  When I learned Tibetan, it didn&apos;t seem as hard as you make it sound, although everything you said about it is true! But there are rules. It&apos;s not arbitrary at all. And if you can deal with English and its silent letters and spellings rooted in the past, you can deal with Tibetan.

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• RO

  @ronweasley1354 · 1 year ago

  For Mandarin： 月 is moon and 半 is half, but in the case of 胖 the 月 part is represents “body/body part.” 月 is used to represent “body/body parts” in many other words too. 朋友 is “friend” and the first character is two 月s put together to represent “2 close bodies.”

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• AL

  @alltheworldsastage6308 · 1 year ago

  Thai but also Lao. Many letters in the Lao alphabet look similar enough to their Thai counterparts that if you know how to read Thai, you can figure out Lao, but anytime I try to explain the Lao alphabet to English speakers, they look at me like I have two heads 😅

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• GL

  @glasshoppernarration5165 · 1 year ago

  The traditional Mongol script is beautiful 👀👍

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• I-

  @I-Like-Swtor · 1 year ago

  Here in tunisia, it&apos;s not uncommon for kids, if they don&apos;t know a word, to not have to pronounce the vowels. Like, say a kid doesn&apos;t know ketab as book, they might just pronounce the consonant cluster ktb and then an adult will tell them the vowels. Really helps, since most kids struggle with the abjad, especially for obscurer words. Hell, even I in my 20s sometimes have to look up the vowels for words, and if I have to say the word without knowing the vowels, I still do the whole consonant clustering thing.

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• PE

  @performingartist · 1 year ago (edited)

  In Thai you only write &quot;vowel e&quot; &nbsp;when you are writing the name of the vowel or spelling something out loud, &nbsp;not when you actually use it in a word! &nbsp;Another thing, &nbsp;there is no punctuation so your example sentence should not have a period. &nbsp;Also you showed Thai letters when talking about Khmer at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gu-klFPV2I&amp;t=990">16:30</a>

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• GR

  @Grenaderser · 1 year ago

  I, as a Thai person, I confirm that Thai writing system is very hard even many Thai people still have problems lol, as your example , our aspirated k has ขค same constant but different tone and also even letters have group so you have to conjugate to get tone precisely ,and there’re some exceptions, yet in exception got an exception 😂😂<br>Btw. I’m pretty sure this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gu-klFPV2I&amp;t=983">16:23</a> is Thai vowels,not Khmer

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• SG

  @SgtRocko · 1 year ago

  My first language is Yiddish, so I grew up with a modified phonetic(ish) Hebrew alphabet (though I had to learn the modified SOVIET version lol), then I had to learn Russian, but mum spoke German &amp; Kaschubian, so by the time I was 10 I had to know three wildly different writing systems lol Then we lived in Ethiopia... you ARE right, Olly - writing a language REALLY helps you learn it. My mum tossed me into a local school, so I HAD to learn Amharic quickly just to keep my lunch money lol It&apos;s actually a lot easier to read/write than it would seem. Awesome video! Thank you!

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