Writing Systems

A brief overview of the worlds writing systems, and how they function.

[virtuousvibes]

Writing systems are what got me into linguistics and conlanging too. I'm so glad.

[challalla]

5:14 King Sejong did not order the creation of the Korean alphabet. He was the one that created the alphabet. The notion that he ordered the scholars in his court to create the alphabet for him arose later and is still a popular one among many Koreans, but all the evidence from contemporary records points to the creation of the alphabet being a personal project that was kept secret from his court until it was completed. The new alphabet actually met considerable resistance from some of the scholar officials as an alphabet for writing the vernacular language would threaten their monopoly on literacy based on Classical Chinese.

[deacudaniel]

Happy to find one more fresh linguistics channel.I became interested in linguistics starting with writing systems too, especially the Chinese one.

[My-nlsg]

Small correction:

The only living logography is not just Chinese 汉字, traditional Yi script ꆈꌠꁱꂷ (aka Classical Yi, the predecessor to the modern reformed syllabary) from China is also a logography that while influenced by Chinese had originated independently and is distinct. Some logographic Yi is still in use:

The are currently two standardized modern Yi syllabaries, the pure syllabary Liangshan Standard Yi Script 凉山规范彝文 for the northern Nuosu dialects ꆈꌠ꒿, and the Yunnan Standard Yi Script 云南规范彝文 for another dialect which mixes syllabary with 2258 logographic glyphs. The Liangshan Yi syllabary is much more widely used, and the Yunnan Yi syllabary is not as popular. In addition, Classical Yi is not completely out of use.

The Liangshan Yi has been included in Unicode, however, the 88, 613 Yunnan Standard Yi glyphs submitted in 2007 had yet to be included.

[Aman-qrwi]

In devnagarī, you missed का which is kaa as in CAR. Also, the inherent vowel अ in indian abugidas have a purpose. Since, most indian scripts were used to write sanskrit which in turn had most proto-indo-european vowels modified into "a", so you'll see a lot of "a" in sanskrit, even the word "devanagari" or the word "Ashtadhyayi", because of this inherent a, abugidas were much useful.

[agentsmidt]

I was watching a video on programming and this video was in my recommendations. I thought the title meant something else (writing computer code) but ended being enthralled by "writing systems". It amazes me how human can come up with these complex communication systems.

[Randmperson]

Amazing explanation of all the different types of scripts! You are extremely underrated and just gained a new sub!

[reinhard_silaen]

I just finished learning kana, hangul, Cyrillic, and greek. And this video got recommended. What a time to be alive.

[stidium]

Great video! It’s great to see new linguistics channels! I can’t wait to see more from you!

[lsm._]

As a linguaphile I'd like to say writing system is totally my favorite topic while learning language especially abugidas one🫶🏻💖 thanks for sharing remarkable information🙏🏻
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🇮🇩ꦩꦠꦸꦂꦱꦸꦮꦸꦤ꧀ꦏꦁꦒꦺꦴꦆꦤꦭ꦳ꦺꦴꦂꦩꦱꦶꦤꦺ
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🇳🇵सुचनाकाे लागी धन्यबाद
🇧🇩তথ্যের জন্য আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ
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[philosophicsblog]

Thanks! I've been interested in language and linguistics forever, but I never knew most of this. I'm glad I followed YouTube's recommendation.

[TommoLinks]

learning languages is honestly so much fun

[glitterstar]

Thank you for this! I’m about to start on a tonal language for my world and I wanted them to use a logolgraphy or something in between bc I think they’re cool, and this simplified them :)

[teacupanimates]

finally, an actually active liguistics channel.

[MandMs]

I'm currently learning Mandarin and got excited to see the Thumbnail having Hanzi to try and read
First hanzi - No clue
Second hanzi - Zì, Character
Third hanzi - No clue
Fourth and Fifth - Wǔshí, fifty (five ten)
Last hanzi - Yīn, Sound (as in 拼音 Pinyin)

Getting frustrated unable to recognize the first and 3rd, I used Google Lens to tell me that it's apparently Japanese for "Kanji and Japanese syllabary"

[b.k.]

გაუმარჯოს ქართულ ანბანს, ყველაზე ლამაზ და დახვეწილ დამწერლობას მსოფლიოში!

[sksk-bdyv]

This is the best vid to introduce hangul that I've ever seen.

[TACTGY]

Hey thank you for the great video. There's one mistake in language alphabet tree on 2:51. There is "кириличен" under Cyrillic, but it should be "кириллица". "Кириличен" is kinda odd form of "кириллица". It's in adjective and short form. You can never see someone using that form.
Ps sorry for my english

[kohaku_amba]

Writing was my gateway to linguistics as well! I've always been fond of logographies in particular, and I hope to create my own someday.

[stargazer]

Cool video, you inspired me to create my own writing system! Love your videos!