Comments on: Top 10 Most Influential Writing Systems

By: Mina Iskandar

Mina Iskandar — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:39:30 +0000

the one language that was fogotten on there before arabic and after egyptian was coptic , which was used by the egyptians after hirogliphics and before the invation of the arabs to egypt

By: REAL ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΑΣ

REAL ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΑΣ — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:57:00 +0000

IN SKOPIA INFRONT OF THE PARLIAMENT BLD YOU WILL FIND THE GREEK WORD
MΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ THATS WHY MAKEDONIANS ARE THE 2ND THIRD GREEK TRIBE
IF YOU DONT LIKE TO LEARN THE REAL HISTORY AT LEAST DONT DESTROY IT

GO GO TO THE DOOR OF YOUR PARLIAMENT BLD READ IT
AND THEN ASK YOURSELF

HOWMANY NAMES HANE YOUR " COUNTRY" CHANGED SO FAR
A ) PEONIA << THE FIRST NEXT TO REAL MAKEDONIA SEE REAL ISTORICAL MAPS
B) DARDANIA
C) VARDASKA
DONT GET LIES TO YOURSELVES THE MISKATE TO CREATE A FAKE COUNTRY WITH
OTHERS LANGUAGE YOU SPEAK BULGARIAN
OTHERS FLAG YOURS IS JAPANESE
OTHERS HISTORY MAΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ ΙS STILL GREEK AND THATS WHY YYOU CALL IT
MA C EDONIA BUT YOUR LETTERS ARE GREEK AS ( MK ) FROM THE GREEK MA K EΔΟΝΙΑ

By: Michael Chan

Michael Chan — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 07:42:30 +0000

Cool, the Chinese text shows the Lord's Prayer!

By: veroonqque

veroonqque — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:47:17 +0000

love it ! but i was waiting an explanation for todays mothern writing system… ( im talking about the letter shown now…)
ok thanks!:)

By: ganstawitnogun

ganstawitnogun — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:28:46 +0000

I like the hangul(korean) writing system because of its efficient and original. even dicovery magazine said that hangul is the most logical alphabet in the world, and korea has one of the highest literacy rates in the world because of hangul.

By: Alvod

Alvod — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:54:28 +0000

@Goover1972 [39]: No they were not. And also there is not such thing as "Greek territory", this was the Byzantium Empire, and it was consolidated from many nations and cultures, that had nothing to do with Greece. By the way, there is not such thing as Greek country before the Turks arrived, which was centuries later.

By: euphegeniah

euphegeniah — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:09:29 +0000

Cyrillic wasn’t invented by the brothers. It was perhaps inspired by them but it’s a simpler form of Glagolithic that’s been attributed to St. Clement of Okhrid.

By: tzopilotl

tzopilotl — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:11:34 +0000

…14/filip=pilli(N)=child=pipiltin/N/pl.)=people(nopilli=
noble). student of 2=nahum=na(uh)=k(na)ow(E), and, ome(N)=2=know 2 in the tonalamatl(N)souls=ehecatl,
goddess of wind, breath, the word/soul carriage.
…141/segues=ceccan(N/adj.)=each one=cececcan(N/freq.)=
in each place, from, ce(N)=one.
if we take the etruscan prayer, which begins with,
ati=atl=water(E), we get the original meaning of letter
A, everything begins with, at(E/prep), altia(N)=altar,
ay(N)=do, ailia(N/rev.)=a(ll)y/air(E) aci(N)=teachcuauh(N)=director(teacher) aqua(N)=strain, froth(water), aqui(N)=
enter=aq(egypt)=aqhet(egypt)=spring=aq(riculture).
the 2d element=cathe/caO(etr)=cha0s(gk)wind/breath=
ehe-catl(N)=c(u)atro(sp)=4= ca(N)=Ka(egypt)=being(pharoah). ce/cel/celtin/celia(N)=one/only(solo)/
g(r)/ce(e)n(letra)=green, ocelix(celia)=
oc/ch(r)e(letra)=ocre(sp)=ochre(E)=
blossom, resusitate(the hope of the dead and living
when they paint dead with it). the letter, C.
we leave the etruscan prayer, the last two elements:
luthe(etr)=luz(dar luz(sp)=birth/light, and cel/celOim=
elohim(Heb)=god, but what kind of god, well, luthe and
cel are a scramble of one word, ocelotl/ocelome(N)=
birthing animal of flame hole thea, tlatla tzol teotl,
cave goddess and regent of the tonalamatl birthing calendar. thea is promethea neandra. her husband, fire=
tletl(N)=t/l/red/t/l, read=t/le(e)r/l/tl=leer(sp)=
read/and the beginning of the word, let/letra/letter.
the shared ocelotl/ocelome(pl) allows one to venture
the hebrew and the etruscan have ident roots going
back to what i believe were the 7caves=chicom-oztoc(N).
so little by little we are identifying the etruscans.
the letter, E, ehecatl(N/wind, weave=ekatheron(gk)=
Katherine(name, as charlise theron), and where there is
also wind, elli((N)=(b)elly(E). oops, off to market. bye.

By: segues

segues — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:42:36 +0000

Seems I came late to the party, but this was a really wonderful List Askalon. We are word nerds in my family, language geeks, so this was perfect for me!
For example: in high school I studied both French and Latin. In Uni I took ancient Greek. Later on, because the King Tut exhibit was touring the United States for the first time ever, I took a class in Egyptian hieroglyphs, and could easily read the cuneiforms to translate from canopic jars and decorative plates. Because I had no further real use for it, my retention is sketchy.
Point being, my whole family seems hard-wired to easily acquire languages. I think that, perhaps, people in general are so inclined, they just tend not to use it.
Alphabets are codes by which we divine the meaning of each language.

By: tzopilotl

tzopilotl — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:47:28 +0000

…86 ganja, here is the etym. of iota(gk)as nauatl pie
sees it: yotl(N/adj.)=only(one)=yo(sp)=iota(gk)=I/jot(E).
yotl is in the same wordstring as yoli(N)=to be born/
abrirse las flores/love(joy), =yollotl(N)=heart,
=yoliatl(N)=soul, and gives us words such as yolk, yodel(swiss), and the aforementioned, joy.
yotl is an adjective which relates to pronouns,
and here you can see, grammar=g/c(r)amat/l/r(letra)=
camatl(N)=mouth, is the first casualty when a word
jumps to the next language, but is quite a word,
supplying the first person singular pronoun in
spanish and english, although the english pronoun
comes through the greek iota.