{"id":5735,"date":"2019-04-10T16:35:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2020-02-07T09:53:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T09:53:34","slug":"writing-systems-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/information\/writing-systems-of-the-world.php","title":{"rendered":"Writing systems of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us are aware there there are thousands of languages spoken across the world &#8211; but do you know how many <em>alphabets<\/em> there are?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not just talking about the difference between, say, the Latin alphabet (the one you&#8217;re reading now) and the Georgian alphabet (a sample of which you can see below) &#8211; we&#8217;re talking about the difference between abjads and abugidas, and between syllabaries and ideograms. Confused? Read on to find out more!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5737\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5737\" class=\"image-fluid wp-image-5737 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/udhr_georgian.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"185\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sample of Georgian text<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Alphabet? Perhaps not<\/h2>\n<p>If your mother tongue is a European language, you may have never thought about the vast differences between the world&#8217;s writing systems, even if you&#8217;re used to seeing different types of <em>scripts<\/em>, such as those in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/en\/learn\/greek.php\">Greek<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/en\/learn\/russian.php\">Cyrillic<\/a> alphabets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5738\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5738\" class=\"wp-image-5738 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/images.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roman vs Cyrillic vs Greek alphabets<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The term &#8216;<strong>alphabet<\/strong>&#8216; isn&#8217;t, as many of us are taught to think, the word for any particular set of letters in a language. In fact, it refers to specific types of writing systems. These systems use characteristic marks &#8211; or letters &#8211; to signify all the <em>phonemes<\/em> (basic component sounds) of a given word. Take the word &#8216;cat&#8217;, for example. Its phonemes &#8211; [k] [a] [t] &#8211; are represented by letters: <em>c &amp; a &amp; t.\u00a0<\/em>Every sound within the word is represented by a letter, and the letters together constitute a language&#8217;s alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>Hebrew, by contrast, is a consonant alphabet &#8211; or an <strong>abjad<\/strong> &#8211; which means that only consonants are represented by letters in its script. &#8216;Cat&#8217;, therefore, becomes: CT. Vowels may then be noted using <em>diacritics<\/em> (small marks around a letter) which help the reader to differentiate between, to take an English example, &#8216;cat&#8217; and &#8216;cut&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>These consonant structures are referred to as &#8216;roots&#8217;, and the addition of vowels to create new forms from the root allows the creation of nouns and adjectives related to the meaning of the root form.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/en\/learn\/arabic.php\">Arabic<\/a> is another language with an abjad alphabet &#8211; the root k-t-b (\u0643\u062a\u0628) is used when writing about marking, inscribing or writing. From this root come the following forms: <em>kat\u00eeb<\/em> (writer); <em>kutub<\/em> (books);<em> kutub\u00ee<\/em> (bookdealer).<\/p>\n<p>Similar in principle to an abjad is an <strong>abugida<\/strong> &#8211; this type of writing system notes the main syllables of a word, rather than the consonants, and is therefore often referred to as an alphasyllabary. Syllables are consonants with an inherent vowel &#8211; think &#8216;ma-na-tee&#8217; or &#8216;oc-to-pus&#8217; &#8211; and in abugidas the whole syllable is represented by one symbol or letter. Diacritics may then be used to note changes made to the syllable&#8217;s &#8216;inherent vowel&#8217;, as seen from the examples below.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_5741\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5741\" class=\"wp-image-5741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"203\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of diacritics on a root syllable in Devanagari, wherein the syllable&#8217;s &#8216;inherent vowel&#8217; [a] is highlighted yellow, and diacritics denoting a change in the vowel are shown in red<\/p><\/div>Related to this class of writing systems is the <strong>syllabary<\/strong>, a term which also refers to symbols used to denote syllables. Syllabaries are slightly different to their close relations the abugidas in that diacritics aren&#8217;t used to make changes to a root symbol. Instead, each symbol is created using characteristic marks or strokes that denote the individual elements of that syllable. This means that the English forms &#8216;bag&#8217;, &#8216;beg&#8217;, &#8216;big&#8217;, &#8216;bog&#8217;, and &#8216;bug&#8217; would all need different symbols, since they are different syllables! Note the differences between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/en\/learn\/japanese.php\">Japanese<\/a> hiragana symbols below &#8211; even though they involve the same consonant, as in the above Devanagari example, the forms are completely different.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5742\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5742\" class=\"image-fluid wp-image-5742 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Capture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"57\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiragana, an example of a &#8216;true syllabary&#8217;, which involves the use of distinct symbols or characters for each distinct syllable (common element [p] highlighted yellow)<\/p><\/div>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h6>\n<p>The final type of writing system is the<strong> semanto-phonetic<\/strong> or <strong>logographic<\/strong> branch, a group which encompasses pictograms and ideograms such as the hieroglyphs used by the Ancient Egyptians, or certain types of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/en\/learn\/chinese.php\">Chinese<\/a> characters. These are symbols that do not relate to the sounds or letters in a given word but instead express things or concepts, and are often representative of the thing or concept itself, as with the below examples from Mandarin:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5743\" style=\"width: 568px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5743\" class=\"image-fluid wp-image-5743 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Capture3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"108\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ideographic symbols in Mandarin Chinese, wherein the shape of the character denotes or implies its meaning<\/p><\/div>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h6>\n<p>Another example, <strong><span lang=\"zh\" title=\"Chinese language text\">\u4f11<\/span><\/strong> &#8216;rest&#8217;, is composed of the characters for &#8216;person&#8217; (<strong><span lang=\"zh\" title=\"Chinese language text\">\u4eba<\/span><\/strong>) and &#8216;tree&#8217; (<strong><span lang=\"zh\" title=\"Chinese language text\">\u6728<\/span><\/strong>), thus denoting a person leaning against a tree,\u00a0 i.e. resting.<\/p>\n<p>Take also the Mandarin word for &#8216;horse&#8217;, for example, which is written thus:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5745 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Capture4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"95\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"tw-target-rmn\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-ta tw-text-small\" dir=\"ltr\"><span tabindex=\"0\">M\u01ce<\/span><span tabindex=\"0\">\u00a0itself becomes part of the character for (q<\/span><span tabindex=\"0\">\u00ed), &#8216;to ride&#8217;:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5746 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Capture5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The two examples listed above are commonly referred to as &#8216;compound characters&#8217;, because they combine separate distinct symbols or elements to create another equally separate and distinct character.\u00a0One of the reasons this type of alphabet is often referred to as &#8216;semanto-phonetic&#8217; is because some characters represent both semantics (meaning) and phonetics (sound).<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Other types of writing systems<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Though at first glance the above may be seem a little complicated, it doesn&#8217;t even scratch the surface of the writing systems used across the world! Consider, for example, the International Phonetic Alphabet, used by linguists to refer to specific phonemes and shows all of the possible sounds a human can make:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5764\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blog-post-writing-system.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5764\" class=\"wp-image-5764 size-shareaholic-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blog-post-writing-system-640x828.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blog-post-writing-system-640x828.png 640w, https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blog-post-writing-system-768x994.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Phonetic Alphabet as of 2018 (click to see full-size!)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And what about &#8216;tactile&#8217; alphabets such as Braille or Morse Code? Or Semaphore, a telegraphy system used the world over to communicate across large distances? Or the various types of shorthand, which look alien to us even after we&#8217;ve familiarised ourselves with the other types of alphabets discussed above!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5749\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5749\" class=\"wp-image-5749 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Capture7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"328\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pitman shorthand, devised in 1837 by Isaac Pitman<\/p><\/div>\n<h6 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h6>\n<div id=\"attachment_5750\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5750\" class=\"wp-image-5750 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.applelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Capture8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"323\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melin shorthand, devised in the 1880s by Olof Werling Melin<\/p><\/div>\n<h6 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h6>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us are aware there there are thousands of languages spoken across the world &#8211; but do you know how many alphabets there are? 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