Top 20 CRAZIEST Letters in the Universe

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[Max.H]

The reason the Ł has a line through it is because they crossed it out, so you know it doesn't make an L sound. Really helps narrow it down.

[serges]

As a russian: when you try to pronounce "Ь" your eye should slide to the left and not to the right. Slide to the right for pronouncing ""Ъ" sound

[whatisthisnewfeaturehandle]

The devs should add these to the American alphabet!

[MoonHeadEnjoyer]

The fact that hes blending in the wrong flaggs makes the video way funnier 😂

[kotokrabs]

It’s sad that Э didn’t make it to the list 😢

[supramur]

for those who wonders, letters ь and ъ used to be vowels centuries ago. It wasn't allowed in old russian to use consonant without vowels surrounding them (just like in modern japanese).

[khalilahd.]

“Uppercase B with a butthole makes the S sound” 😂😂 you’re creativity and humor is top tier

[scientificnameofpigs]

I like how he used the flag of Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 for Spanish, the flag of Mozambique 🇲🇿 for Portuguese, the flag of Belarus 🇧🇾, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 and the USSR for Russian and the flag of Austria 🇦🇹 for German.

[esence_of_adream]

ツ Means tsu and シ means shi for anyone wondering (this is the katakana alphabet)

[olegchervontsev]

There's a fun fact about cyrillic "K" compared to latin "K". Typography wise they have different anatomies. And if you're creating a typeface, you could get into trouble with seasoned typographers for not knowing this : )
Also in handwriting a lot of cyrillic letters don't look like there machine typed versions. For example "д" can be written as "g" or a horizontally mirrored "6", and as a "D" when capitalised

[consumingkazoos]

4:03 if you were looking, ツ is the katakana "tsu" (ts as in the ending of "ba dum tsss", and an "ooh" at the end) and シ is the katakana "shi" (pronounced like the english word "she".) there is one word i know that combines both, and it's 「シャツ」(shatsu / shirt)

[Emboar]

5:13 This letter looks like a Chinese final boss

[BazookaLuca]

As a German:
ß is completely normal and the difference to ss is the length of the prior vowel
In Massen has a short a and means in masses
In Maßen has a long a and means in moderation
And in Switzerland both are spelled the same
In Massen trinken ;)
As for s
That is rarely actually an s
It is more similair to the English z

[ihtschl]

6:54 "and it makes the 😐 sound"

[EkaitzIturbeltz]

Before the standardization of Basque orthography, ŕ and ĺ were proposed by Sabino Arana Goiri to respectively represent intervocalic [r] sound and [ʎ] sound. They didn't make it to the actual alphabet, but they would have been pretty cool imo

[ΕΛΕΝΗ-λδ]

0:35 "makes the sound" got me dying

[reddhood]

I þink ðat ðis video was very well put togeðer and ðat Language Simp has made a perfectly unbiased list.

[шибкоумнаяоднако]

0:52 Cool ш and щ! People often pronounce them alike, despite they (sounds, I mean) are quite different, but you did a really good job. And you made ь sound so well that you definetly will be one of the best in spelling ъ.

[lancelotofsadblackwolf_yt]

If anyone is wondering what "シ" and "ツ" means in japanese katakana, it's basically Pronounced as "shi"(シ) like in 'shield' and "tsu"(ツ) like in "tsunami"(depending on your pronunciation to the word, the 't' part is pronounced a bit)

[kijete]

2:08 as a pole i can confirm this is a massive practical joke created by us poles to see how hard we can confuse foreigners with our orthography