MindCrime Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 There's several characters that can be used to spell out what you just said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 I'm proud of myself for remembering anything at all (still had to ask wikipedia for help) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Are there differences in the characters used for Asian languages, or are they different just in the way they are used? Is there an easy way to tell one from the other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 I always thought they are basically ideograms and pictograms. We write images for sounds and create sounds to define concepts or things. They go straight to the symbol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 I heard somewhere that there is no written language for the original Native American languages, that it's all memorized sounds. Anyone know if that's true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Are there differences in the characters used for Asian languages, or are they different just in the way they are used? Is there an easy way to tell one from the other? It entirely depends on the language, most of them have different scripts. And most of them use completely different characters from the other Asian languages. What do you mean by telling one from the other? One character, or one language? And not all Asian languages use symbols, actually only a minority do. Most of them use letters just like we do, they just look different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 (edited) I heard somewhere that there is no written language for the original Native American languages, that it's all memorized sounds. Anyone know if that's true? I don't know if it's true for all of them, but it is true for some. There was no writing system for the Inuit languages, for instance... and it took white missionaries to invent one. Actually it's a lot more than one, they use several scripts for different languages. Edited November 22, 2008 by Guest not just one writing system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 the Maya had a written language, the Inca didn't that's the ones I know from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 And not all Asian languages use symbols, actually only a minority do. Most of them use letters just like we do, they just look different. Well, Chinese and Japanese have ideograms, I believe... I know, there are many "Chinese" languages... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Chinese yes, Japanese not exclusively. Japanese has several writing systems... Kanji uses ideograms, the others don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 (edited) I know they don't all, I mean the ones that do. I guess I mean like you and I use the same alphabet. Arabic languages use the same "alphabet". In the Asian cultures that use characters rather than letters are they the same? Edit: you've sort of answered that question. I just don't remember anything I ever learned about this subject. It would have been in grade school. Edited November 22, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 The comment about languages using ideograms was directed at edna more than you Well, the only example I can think of are Chinese and Japanese kanji, and as far as I know, they are not all mutually intelligible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 I wondered because just yesterday I took a prescription written in characters. A pharmacist knew immediately it was in Korean. I just wondered how she did that, without knowing the language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Oh that! I thought by characters you meant ideograms. Yeah, you can definitely tell Chinese/Japanese /Korean/Hindi etc apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 I should've just said so right from the beginning, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Well... yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 I can recognise the language when I see the letters for Chinese, Hindi, Arab or Hebrew but I could never tell if it´s Korean or Vietnamese, for instance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Oh, you could... Vietnamese uses Roman letters like us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Really? Wow, you´re a wise and cultivated man, Fin chéri... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 It hasn't always been that way, but now they do, yes. Ah, I'm just interested in languages... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Yes, he's quite the cunning linguist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 haha. very little haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcM Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 poqito Espanol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Baloni Posted November 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 (edited) Ich habe heute Abend einen Deutshcen getroffen. Edited November 23, 2008 by Guest Because I'm a FAILURE at German!!! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 are there any Americans where you live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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