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What's your favorite alphabet?

Chucklefiend

From an aesthetic point of view? Personally I like Hangul (Korean alphabet)

So what's yours?

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Reply 1

Sir Jonathan

the english one. it begins with a b c

Reply 2

$tar£reaker

I like the look of Greek and Russian even though I don't know what it means.
Arabic also looks nice, Hebrew isn't bad either.

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Hellenic

Original post by Sir Jonathan

the english one. it begins with a b c

I hate to be the one the break it to you, but there's no such thing as the English alphabet. The English language uses the Latin alphabet I'm afraid.

Reply 6

Xurvi

I quite like the Japanese Hiragana, though it's a syllabary and not an alphabet.

Reply 7

kristinaalovesu

Arabic, Greek and Russian looks pretty interesting to me.

Reply 8

The Devil

It is very difficult for me to distinguish my favourite alphabet. The Latin alphabet has taken over pretty much the majority of Indo-European languages, and some Austro-Asiatic languages. However personally, I would say my favourite alphabet is the Gaelic varient of the Latin alphabet and Devanagari.

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Reply 9

Sapientia

Original post by Chucklefiend

From an acetic point of view? Personally I like Hangul (Korean alphabet)

So what's yours?

Acetic? You mean aesthetic?

And uh, there are plenty of orthographies that aren't alphabets. Naturally I adore the Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts.

<3 cyrillic

Original post by Sir Jonathan

the english one. it begins with a b c

This is the Latin one :smile:

Reply 12

JustSmile

I've always though Tolkien's alphabet for his Elvish languages was beautiful.

Reply 13

asparkyn

Original post by Xurvi

I quite like the Japanese Hiragana, though it's a syllabary and not an alphabet.

Hiragana looks really really pretty, although when all three writing systems (hiragana, katagana + kanji) all get meshed together then I don't find it so pretty anymore :biggrin:

The korean alphabet looks really interesting too, especially when Koreans write in them. I have never seen more systematic handwriting.

Reply 14

dnumberwang

Devanagari

But really, I don't know

All of them

I don't have a favourite alphabet, but I've always thought that Spanish looks really really pretty on paper (perhaps it's the accent marks and the ñ letter?)

Although ... I really like the cyrillic script because it looks so cryptic to those who can't read it, and I love love love love the look of the Javanese script. So floral and beautiful :love:

I might try learning to write in it...

Reply 17

Xurvi

Original post by dnumberwang

All of them

Nice! Some of them look sooo hard to write though!

Reply 18

Dawson2010

???? ??????! *mother russia!*

Reply 19

username457532

Cyrillic is lovely. Especially when you learn how to transliterate it into the Latin alphabet and suddenly you can see the English translation for the word. Only works in a few cases but I love it when it does.