Khoisan-speaking thread
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Ankh




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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Oct 2026 14:39    Post subject: Khoisan-speaking thread


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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Oct 2026 17:49    Post subject:
Unga bunga um bum


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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Oct 2026 19:22    Post subject:
Jana niliona tembo mafute, alifanana nawe kidogo. Poker Face


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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Oct 2026 22:34    Post subject:
Spoken language is easy. It comes naturally to us Homo Sapient Sapient.

It's alphabet and writing system which is harder.

Harder still is a unique alphabet not based on ancient predecessors and developed in prehistoric/medieval times independently from the neighbouring tribes.

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Languages with Dedicated or Unique Alphabets/Scripts

• Armenian: Uses the 5th-century Armenian alphabet, designed with a distinct one-to-one sound-to-letter correspondence.

• Georgian: Uses the unique Mkhedruli alphabet (and older historical scripts) native to the Kartvelian language family.

• Greek: Uses the ancient Greek alphabet, which served as the structural ancestor for both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts.

• Korean: Uses Hangul, a scientifically engineered alphabet composed of letter blocks shaped to mimic the physical position of the mouth and tongue when making sounds.

• Amharic (Ethiopian): Uses the Ge'ez script, an abugida (syllabuary-alphabet hybrid) unique to the Horn of Africa.

• Cherokee: Uses an independent syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the early 1800s for the Cherokee language.

• Vai: Uses the Vai syllabary, independently developed in West Africa (Liberia/Sierra Leone) in the 1830s.

• N’Ko: A unique alphabet created in 1949 specifically for West African Manding languages

From not AI's mouth. Smile But let's face it, the final 3 were probably developed with the guiding hand of those damned 'white colonizers'.


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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Oct 2026 22:35    Post subject:
Ohh ohh ahh ahh
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zenux




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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Oct 2026 23:10    Post subject:
Now I have my doubts about Greek alphabet being unique or whatnot.
Phoenician alphabet spawned Aramaic line (modern Hebrew and Arabic) and Greek line.

Phoenician writing itself was based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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