Fun fact- Canadian syllabics were made by missionaries in the 18th century CE only with inspiration from the scientific and efficiency nature of Devanagari script.
Canadian Syllabic is also used in Cree and Ojibwe. The map only shows where it is official on a territory/province level, though. You can tell the difference between Cree and Inuktitut at a glance because Cree has letters that look like quotation marks.
Hate to be a nerd, but as someone interested in linguistics and history, a lot of the information is incorrect and questionable at best. I was kind of errrm'ing and confused when you said a lot of what you did in this video
@@bodymuezik I’ll rewatch this video in a bit and edit this comment with inaccuracies i find the title shouldve been tier list of writing systems btw pet peeves and inaccuracies vvv calls the danish alphabet “kind of an alphabet” which doesn’t really make much sense, it is still an alphabet by how it functions. Also calls additional letters impractical. Then he goes on to say the latin alphabet has too few letters and blames english’s inconsistencies on the alphabet it uses, and not how the speakers spell the words. Polish bias Proto Sinaitic is an abjad, proto-alphabet. Claims egyptian hieroglyphs come AFTER proto sinaitic, despite proto sinaitic letters coming FROM hieroglyphs. egyptian hieroglyphs is a pictogram and a bunch of other things, but not an alphabet like that image shown says it is, and also says “pretty clear to translate” which doesn’t make much sense to me. the script vs alphabet distinction doesnt make sense burmese is an abugida and not an alphabet devanagari is an abugida and not an alphabet blah blah tibetan abugida says hangul is in anyway close to hiragana and katakana is not really correct, also he says “every letting being a consonant and a vowel is a minus” despite the last 4 writing systems he rated doing that exact thing (other than hieroglyphics being pictographs). korean hangul does not have more than 100 signs, it has 24 letters, and you stack them in very formulaic ways according to word’s in question’s syllables. greek predates the latin alphabet, greek does not have “extra” letters, it has less, about the same number of letters as hangul. i agree greek is prettier in uppercase. arabic is an abjad. “right to left bias” (will become relevant later) yaaay he gets a writing system correctly, canadian syllabary, aka an abugida. calls hangul complicated lmao /personal reason thaana is an abjad, idk much else about it. (i skipped the minecraft one lol) thai abugida urdu abjad, “isnt similiar to arabic, it comes from persian, then they added arabic” lmao what. hebrew abjad, he doesnt deduct it points for being written right to left ge’ez abugida overall most of the video is inconsistent rationally, semantically using alphabet for other scripts is okay but is a pet peeve, idrc too much about that. Other than that it’s not that serious, had time to kill to write all this down for you
What until he finds out that Hebrew is written right-to-left
I didn't know that lmao
And arabic
@@DavidmamaTheHFanatic ok I knew that
about the right to left writing, we rotate the paper 90 degrees and write top to bottom, that way we don't get our fingers dirty
I like the "*scrasam" text
All of the Brahmic scripts have a similar basis to the Korean alphabet. Korean alphabet just uses simpler shapes
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I am superised your channel hasn’t blowup yet
As left-handed I like right-to-left writing systems.
left handed people where oppressed for most of history.
Fun fact- Canadian syllabics were made by missionaries in the 18th century CE only with inspiration from the scientific and efficiency nature of Devanagari script.
Canadian Syllabic is also used in Cree and Ojibwe. The map only shows where it is official on a territory/province level, though. You can tell the difference between Cree and Inuktitut at a glance because Cree has letters that look like quotation marks.
Interesting tier list, in my opinion Korean and Tibetan alphabets are my favourites.
a really cool thing is that Ethiopian is the easiest language because they write exactly like it sounds
I think the senaitic alphabet developed from the ancient egyptian hieroglyphics
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IDK bro, i really like cyrylic
Hate to be a nerd, but as someone interested in linguistics and history, a lot of the information is incorrect and questionable at best. I was kind of errrm'ing and confused when you said a lot of what you did in this video
Care to post the inaccuracies? At least some of them
@@bodymuezik I’ll rewatch this video in a bit and edit this comment with inaccuracies i find
the title shouldve been tier list of writing systems btw
pet peeves and inaccuracies vvv
calls the danish alphabet “kind of an alphabet” which doesn’t really make much sense, it is still an alphabet by how it functions. Also calls additional letters impractical.
Then he goes on to say the latin alphabet has too few letters and blames english’s inconsistencies on the alphabet it uses, and not how the speakers spell the words.
Polish bias
Proto Sinaitic is an abjad, proto-alphabet.
Claims egyptian hieroglyphs come AFTER proto sinaitic, despite proto sinaitic letters coming FROM hieroglyphs.
egyptian hieroglyphs is a pictogram and a bunch of other things, but not an alphabet like that image shown says it is, and also says “pretty clear to translate” which doesn’t make much sense to me.
the script vs alphabet distinction doesnt make sense
burmese is an abugida and not an alphabet
devanagari is an abugida and not an alphabet
blah blah tibetan abugida
says hangul is in anyway close to hiragana and katakana is not really correct, also he says “every letting being a consonant and a vowel is a minus” despite the last 4 writing systems he rated doing that exact thing (other than hieroglyphics being pictographs).
korean hangul does not have more than 100 signs, it has 24 letters, and you stack them in very formulaic ways according to word’s in question’s syllables.
greek predates the latin alphabet, greek does not have “extra” letters, it has less, about the same number of letters as hangul.
i agree greek is prettier in uppercase.
arabic is an abjad. “right to left bias” (will become relevant later)
yaaay he gets a writing system correctly, canadian syllabary, aka an abugida.
calls hangul complicated lmao /personal reason
thaana is an abjad, idk much else about it.
(i skipped the minecraft one lol)
thai abugida
urdu abjad, “isnt similiar to arabic, it comes from persian, then they added arabic” lmao what.
hebrew abjad, he doesnt deduct it points for being written right to left
ge’ez abugida
overall most of the video is inconsistent rationally, semantically using alphabet for other scripts is okay but is a pet peeve, idrc too much about that. Other than that it’s not that serious, had time to kill to write all this down for you
@@bodymuezik done
Oh wow, I can tell you're an expert. I was just having fun but thanks for the feedback.
@@Meow-hj4td also Cyrillic originates in Bulgaria, not Russia
Yoo wassup
my man
You're clearly unfair in that Polish ranking
Sinhalese best