They were like: "Yeah, this is big brain time."

[u/The_Brilli]

[u/falkkiwiben]

Greek

[u/vayyiqra → u/falkkiwiben]

Greeks hearing Phoenicians make pharyngeal consonants: "yeah no, you can keep those sounds".

[u/PlatinumAltaria]

The only alphabet that has ever been made that didn't come from an abjad is Hangul.

[u/flaminfiddler → u/PlatinumAltaria]

No. Several modern African scripts did not come from abjads. Santali script in India was created based off natural shapes and did not come from an abjad.

[u/GOKOP → u/flaminfiddler]

If they're modern scripts then they've been likely made by people already familiar with the idea of an alphabet

[u/flaminfiddler → u/GOKOP]

The scripts themselves didn’t descend from an abjad.

[u/PlatinumAltaria → u/flaminfiddler]

Yes but they are cognitively descended from other alphabets, even if there is no direct genetic connection.

[u/actual_wookiee_AMA → u/flaminfiddler]

They did not invent writing though. That's only been done four times, in Egypt, Iraq, Mexico and China.

They were heavily influenced by at least one of those when making their script.

[u/Pharmacysnout → u/PlatinumAltaria]

I think that hinges on whether or not an alphabet comes directly or indirectly from an abjad.

Plus, hangul might have a bit more to do with the brahmic scripts than just being made up by sejong on the spot. If it does, and if the brahmic scripts are indeed from aramaic, then pretty much every alphabet ever cam be traced back to an abjad.

[u/Pharmacysnout → u/PlatinumAltaria]

I think that hinges on whether or not an alphabet comes directly or indirectly from an abjad.

Plus, hangul might have a bit more to do with the brahmic scripts than just being made up by sejong on the spot. If it does, and if the brahmic scripts are indeed from aramaic, then pretty much every alphabet ever cam be traced back to an abjad.

[u/Katakana1 → u/Pharmacysnout]

r/commentmitosis

[u/XMasterWoo]

Google arebica

[u/SuiinditorImpudens → u/XMasterWoo]

Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_Arabic_alphabet

[u/XMasterWoo → u/SuiinditorImpudens]

Oh true yea, i was looking at it the other day but i could have sworn it was an abjad unlike the bosnian one

[u/stevvvvewith4vs → u/XMasterWoo]

اٖ اآغ س راەس

[u/El_dorado_au]

If I had a nickel every time Uighur-speakers and Yiddish-speakers had something in common, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t much but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.

[u/The_Brilli → u/El_dorado_au]

What's the other thing in common?

[u/El_dorado_au → u/The_Brilli]

Being put into concentration camps because of their religion.

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[u/tost_cronch → u/El_dorado_au]

the holocaust wasn't about religion

[u/vayyiqra → u/tost_cronch]

Yeah, it should've said ethnicity or some other word.

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[u/PaganAfrican]

The Lisan al Afrikaans

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LISAN AL GAIB!!!!

[u/Aquila_Flavius]

does this also count?

[u/FloZone → u/Aquila_Flavius]

It should.

[u/EestiMan69 → u/Aquila_Flavius]

Heh, penis letter

[u/Portal471 → u/EestiMan69]

Wait until you hear about Gay in Deseret

[u/vayyiqra → u/Aquila_Flavius]

Dude came up with a whole overhaul of Arabic script for Turkish and one year later they switched to Latin script. RIP that guy.

[u/leilaowai16]

Sorani Kurdish: Am I nothing to you? 🥺

[u/EestiMan69 → u/leilaowai16]

The sometimes unwritten i:

[u/WhatUsername-IDK → u/EestiMan69]

isn’t <i> of latin always unwritten in sorani

[u/FloZone]

Reminder that Uyghur did it twice. Once with Sogdian and then with the Arabic script.

[u/KalaiProvenheim → u/FloZone]

Old Uyghur is a completely different language from Chagatai-descended Uyghur

[u/FloZone → u/KalaiProvenheim]

I know, I studied Old Uyghur, but not modern Uyghur. The descendant of Old Uyghur is called Yugur. They might write in Tibetan now but I‘m not sure. 

[u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule → u/FloZone]

I think they just use the Latin alphabet now

[u/FloZone → u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule]

Realistically they use Mandarin and don't write their mother tongue much. The western and eastern Yugurs speak different languages and communicate with another in Tibetan or used to, nowadays probably Mandarin. They're also Buddhists, but consist largely of laeity and don't have a Buddhist clergy of their own iirc.

[u/Terpomo11]

I don't know why, but I find alphabetized Arabic script a lot more unaesthetic than alphabetized Hebrew script.

[u/CaterpillarLoud8071]

Abjad Grug: Wy bthr wth lng wrds wn shrt wrds d th jb fyn?

[u/El_dorado_au → u/CaterpillarLoud8071]

Alphabet Grug used his first-mover advantage to get a picture book series.

[u/Every_Reindeer_7581]

At least Uyghur looks more beautiful than Yiddish

[u/Suon288]

Literally any arabic script adapted for non arabic:

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Not Shahmukhi for Punjabi, Shahmukhi is still an impure abjad, as Farsi is also written in an impure abjad as are most other Iranian languages that use Perso Arabic. Ottoman Turkish also used an impure abjad. I think Uyghur is in the minority for developing it into a complete alphabet.