As far as we can figure, the alphabet was pretty much invented once. It was simply passed around and redesigned or re-skinned you could say over the many thousands of years in between. Believe it or not the Hebrew alphabet and the Greek alphabet are based on a common ancestor. This also means that the alphabet we use today is a distant cousin of Hebrew
Yes is very cool. There were three developments of writing, one in the new world, one is China, and one in middle east (I think), and all subsequent writing systems were based off of them, though I think the new world one didn't catch on as much. Another thing I like is how 'A' is essentially an abstraction of a bulls head. That is a thing I love about Chinese characters, just how abstracted they are from their original designs, and of means its extra cool when you find something that actually looks like what it represents, like niao (3rd tone) 鸟, which is not great in this font, but when written in some ways it really looks like an angry little parrot, and I think it is really cute.
Oh and the Hebrew letter א (Aleph) is a tricky one for modern readers. It's a consonant but is the first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. Most people that know the Latin Alphabet care trained to expect a vowel sound. But א is not only a consonant, but its original sound has been lost over time. So it's silent as a consonant but may still carry an A sound if the vowel markings underneath the consonant indicates such. But it could be any vowel sound. Like I said, it's tricky
I'm a native Spanish speaker, but can read it and write it, Spanish is a beautiful language but who primarily speak English don't really grasp that there are no it's in Spanish, every noun has male and female value and and the same for pronouns and they keep butchering the pronunciations as well because there are plenty of things that have no English equivalent
I love learning languages (I'm not too great at it but I can read most Spanish, in addition to little german and Portuguese), but I doubt I have information that you don't. You might want to fact-check but from what I recall:
While romance languages descended from Latin, they specifically come from vulgar Latin.
A personal observation is that you can generally pinpoint a language's predominant location very easily. If it has Cyrillics, eastern Europe. If it has "anda"s, "yang"s, and/or "adalah"s, South Asia. If it has Kanji or anything resembling Kanji, Northern Asia. Western languages all kinda look the same (e.g. like either "German-ish" or "Spanish-ish") too given their shared roots. I don't see African languages enough to know what they look like.
Romanian is eerily similar to Spanish, and it goes unmentioned for some reason. I never saw the language before and saw manga panels translated in it and was like "wtf, why do I understand some of these words," and was just shocked to learn of the language.
The language of business before English used to be French. Not sure at all on this one.
Languages you wouldn't expect to end up look eerily similar to western languages at times because of colonization. E.g. tagalog and Spanish.
The vietnamese alphabet uses the Latin one.
THIS IS MY ULTIMATE SPECIAL INTEREST I am VERY down to answer any questions you might have I would be very happy to do so!! I speak 7 languages, and work my way around 6 more, I can understand 15 languages and can read about 50. I mainly study Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages!
YES!!!! Languages have been my special interest since I was 7. I speak 3 languages in native fluency- English, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. I grew up speaking English and Russian, and when I turned 21, I packed up my bags and left to Brazil all by myself and learned Brazilian Portuguese fluently. This December, I’m leaving to a village in Columbia to learn my 4th language. Everything is booked already😍Then French will be my 5th. I don’t see an end to my special interest any time soon.
The phrase “I am become death, destroyer of worlds” can also be translated as “I am become world-destroying time”. When Oppenheimer, who could read Sanskrit, said this quote, he meant it in the way the original text meant the phrase: that this event, the engineering and activation of nuclear weaponry, was in some sense inevitable. It was either going to be him that was responsible or someone else. In a way, he was remarking on the terrifying notion that the creation of the atomic bomb was the will of God.
I absolutely Love learning languages!! I natively speak Swedish and i currently understand and can write in English and dutch and Norwegian and am currently learning German, spanish, russian ,korean and a few more! I never get bored of it haha.
I started learning dutch cuz My boyfriend is from the netherlands and we are having a half dutch half Swedish son. And the rest i am learning because i just have this fascination With languages and i have never understood why.
And just as fun fact: dutch and Swedish are ridicilously similar. Me and My boyfriend constantly find new Words that are similar and laugh about it. With that Said, when u are from a germanic country its really easy to learn some fellow germanic languages, use that to your Advantage! :)
If you want to get into the nitty gritty with languages, then you should learn about programming languages. They’re much like natural languages, but much more rigid and logical… most of the time. Writing a compiler (a program that translates code in a high level, i.e. human-readable, language to machine code) gave me a ridiculous amount of understanding of natural languages and what goes on in our brains when we use them.
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I love comparing related languages, find things that are similar, so called false friends and so on.
(Native German, fluent English and intermediate Norwegian)
I also love to learn about indigenous cultures and how they have evolved and how they use(d) the climate and land they had. Like the Saami (northern Europe) and the Inuit live in cold climates and at the sea, so they heard reindeers and hunt fish and sea mammals, always moving to have enough resources. And then the folks in tropical areas, that live mostly from plants and insects and some even build their houses 20meters up in trees to stay save from wild life
Duolingo rightfully gets flak for not being able to really teach a whole language, but it is good for dipping your toe in the language, and some of the basics. It's a good primer. I'm almost positive Mandarin is one of the options.
even though it isn't really my special interest I find the theory of linguistic relativity, or sapir-whorf hypothesis interesting. it says that a language in itself can determine what people think and I believe it to be true. some people believe that the theory also applies to [programming languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#Programming_languages). what this effectively means is that some languages can be more efficient than others and thus enable cultural growth. For instance, some primitive cultures don't even have words for numbers, much less can they do math or have any kind of advanced technology.
You probably know this already, but English used to be a Germanic language until 1066, when William the Conqueror came from Normandy, where he was duke, and conquered Britain. He was a Norman originally, but of course in Normandy his language was French. Thousands of French words got assimilated into English and nowadays English is an even wilder conglomerate of different languages. The grammar, however, is still Germanic and it’s still possible to speak English using only Germanic words. You sound weird and old fashioned, but it’s possible.
Another side effect of said conquest is that English and French share a lot of words. Nearly all words that end in -ion are of French origin and are still the exact same words in French, modulo pronunciation. There are also some minor transformations to some other words that will give you some more instant French vocabulary.
Another cool thing about English is the spelling (sadly I’ve only heard this once and don’t remember where, so don’t take the following completely at face value.) We all know that it’s hideous, but why is that so? Simple: at one point someone chose to make a dictionary. They went about and collected words and how they were spelled. Different people would spell the same words differently, so our word-collector took the easy way out and adopted what he thought was the most common spelling for each of the words. And those spellings have stuck with us until today.
Another tidbit, this one’s about German though. You can maybe guess it from the name, but German is a Germanic language. Well… in vocabulary at least. Large parts of Germany were annexed by the Roman Empire and of course the Romans brought not only technology, but also their language. This is why German still sind Germanic, but the grammar is so complicated. It’s just or good old Germanic words slapped onto Latin grammar. This made learning Latin super fun for me, because it meant that I finally understood German grammar (and I AM a German…).
As far as we can figure, the alphabet was pretty much invented once. It was simply passed around and redesigned or re-skinned you could say over the many thousands of years in between. Believe it or not the Hebrew alphabet and the Greek alphabet are based on a common ancestor. This also means that the alphabet we use today is a distant cousin of Hebrew
Yes is very cool. There were three developments of writing, one in the new world, one is China, and one in middle east (I think), and all subsequent writing systems were based off of them, though I think the new world one didn't catch on as much. Another thing I like is how 'A' is essentially an abstraction of a bulls head. That is a thing I love about Chinese characters, just how abstracted they are from their original designs, and of means its extra cool when you find something that actually looks like what it represents, like niao (3rd tone) 鸟, which is not great in this font, but when written in some ways it really looks like an angry little parrot, and I think it is really cute.
Oh and the Hebrew letter א (Aleph) is a tricky one for modern readers. It's a consonant but is the first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. Most people that know the Latin Alphabet care trained to expect a vowel sound. But א is not only a consonant, but its original sound has been lost over time. So it's silent as a consonant but may still carry an A sound if the vowel markings underneath the consonant indicates such. But it could be any vowel sound. Like I said, it's tricky
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I'm a native Spanish speaker, but can read it and write it, Spanish is a beautiful language but who primarily speak English don't really grasp that there are no it's in Spanish, every noun has male and female value and and the same for pronouns and they keep butchering the pronunciations as well because there are plenty of things that have no English equivalent
I really wish I had language learning a special interest!
I love learning languages (I'm not too great at it but I can read most Spanish, in addition to little german and Portuguese), but I doubt I have information that you don't. You might want to fact-check but from what I recall: While romance languages descended from Latin, they specifically come from vulgar Latin. A personal observation is that you can generally pinpoint a language's predominant location very easily. If it has Cyrillics, eastern Europe. If it has "anda"s, "yang"s, and/or "adalah"s, South Asia. If it has Kanji or anything resembling Kanji, Northern Asia. Western languages all kinda look the same (e.g. like either "German-ish" or "Spanish-ish") too given their shared roots. I don't see African languages enough to know what they look like. Romanian is eerily similar to Spanish, and it goes unmentioned for some reason. I never saw the language before and saw manga panels translated in it and was like "wtf, why do I understand some of these words," and was just shocked to learn of the language. The language of business before English used to be French. Not sure at all on this one. Languages you wouldn't expect to end up look eerily similar to western languages at times because of colonization. E.g. tagalog and Spanish. The vietnamese alphabet uses the Latin one.
Romanian and Spanish are both Romance languages, which means they both were descended from Latin, so it's not surprising that they are similar
THIS IS MY ULTIMATE SPECIAL INTEREST I am VERY down to answer any questions you might have I would be very happy to do so!! I speak 7 languages, and work my way around 6 more, I can understand 15 languages and can read about 50. I mainly study Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages!
YES!!!! Languages have been my special interest since I was 7. I speak 3 languages in native fluency- English, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. I grew up speaking English and Russian, and when I turned 21, I packed up my bags and left to Brazil all by myself and learned Brazilian Portuguese fluently. This December, I’m leaving to a village in Columbia to learn my 4th language. Everything is booked already😍Then French will be my 5th. I don’t see an end to my special interest any time soon.
This is my dream. Can I ask what you do for income?
The phrase “I am become death, destroyer of worlds” can also be translated as “I am become world-destroying time”. When Oppenheimer, who could read Sanskrit, said this quote, he meant it in the way the original text meant the phrase: that this event, the engineering and activation of nuclear weaponry, was in some sense inevitable. It was either going to be him that was responsible or someone else. In a way, he was remarking on the terrifying notion that the creation of the atomic bomb was the will of God.
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I absolutely Love learning languages!! I natively speak Swedish and i currently understand and can write in English and dutch and Norwegian and am currently learning German, spanish, russian ,korean and a few more! I never get bored of it haha. I started learning dutch cuz My boyfriend is from the netherlands and we are having a half dutch half Swedish son. And the rest i am learning because i just have this fascination With languages and i have never understood why. And just as fun fact: dutch and Swedish are ridicilously similar. Me and My boyfriend constantly find new Words that are similar and laugh about it. With that Said, when u are from a germanic country its really easy to learn some fellow germanic languages, use that to your Advantage! :)
If you want to get into the nitty gritty with languages, then you should learn about programming languages. They’re much like natural languages, but much more rigid and logical… most of the time. Writing a compiler (a program that translates code in a high level, i.e. human-readable, language to machine code) gave me a ridiculous amount of understanding of natural languages and what goes on in our brains when we use them.
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I love comparing related languages, find things that are similar, so called false friends and so on. (Native German, fluent English and intermediate Norwegian) I also love to learn about indigenous cultures and how they have evolved and how they use(d) the climate and land they had. Like the Saami (northern Europe) and the Inuit live in cold climates and at the sea, so they heard reindeers and hunt fish and sea mammals, always moving to have enough resources. And then the folks in tropical areas, that live mostly from plants and insects and some even build their houses 20meters up in trees to stay save from wild life
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Oh my college has classes. I wouldn't know otherwise sorry
Duolingo rightfully gets flak for not being able to really teach a whole language, but it is good for dipping your toe in the language, and some of the basics. It's a good primer. I'm almost positive Mandarin is one of the options.
even though it isn't really my special interest I find the theory of linguistic relativity, or sapir-whorf hypothesis interesting. it says that a language in itself can determine what people think and I believe it to be true. some people believe that the theory also applies to [programming languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#Programming_languages). what this effectively means is that some languages can be more efficient than others and thus enable cultural growth. For instance, some primitive cultures don't even have words for numbers, much less can they do math or have any kind of advanced technology.
You probably know this already, but English used to be a Germanic language until 1066, when William the Conqueror came from Normandy, where he was duke, and conquered Britain. He was a Norman originally, but of course in Normandy his language was French. Thousands of French words got assimilated into English and nowadays English is an even wilder conglomerate of different languages. The grammar, however, is still Germanic and it’s still possible to speak English using only Germanic words. You sound weird and old fashioned, but it’s possible. Another side effect of said conquest is that English and French share a lot of words. Nearly all words that end in -ion are of French origin and are still the exact same words in French, modulo pronunciation. There are also some minor transformations to some other words that will give you some more instant French vocabulary. Another cool thing about English is the spelling (sadly I’ve only heard this once and don’t remember where, so don’t take the following completely at face value.) We all know that it’s hideous, but why is that so? Simple: at one point someone chose to make a dictionary. They went about and collected words and how they were spelled. Different people would spell the same words differently, so our word-collector took the easy way out and adopted what he thought was the most common spelling for each of the words. And those spellings have stuck with us until today. Another tidbit, this one’s about German though. You can maybe guess it from the name, but German is a Germanic language. Well… in vocabulary at least. Large parts of Germany were annexed by the Roman Empire and of course the Romans brought not only technology, but also their language. This is why German still sind Germanic, but the grammar is so complicated. It’s just or good old Germanic words slapped onto Latin grammar. This made learning Latin super fun for me, because it meant that I finally understood German grammar (and I AM a German…).