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Your Name wrote on 14/6/24 8:29 am:
> On 2024-06-13 10:21:15 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>> Blueshirt wrote on 12/6/24 10:59 pm:
>>>>
>>>> You wait til we start talking about the Irish language, we
>>>> don't even have 26 letters in our alphabet!
>>>
>>> More or Less??
>>
>> Less. There's only 18 letters in the Irish alphabet.
> 
> The Rotokas language of New Guinea only has 12 letters in the alphabet 
> (and two of those letters sound the same!).  :-p
> 
> The Khmer language of Southeast Asia has 74 letters in the alphabet, 
> including 24 dependent vowels and 12 independent vowels.
> 
> The Chinese language has over 50,000 symbols (many are only historic 
> usage), but only 24 basic characters. Japanese, originally based on 
> Chinese, has similar numbers.  :-)

In my viewing of Archeological-type Ducos, I've other wondered how many 
Hieroglyph the Ancient Egyptians used.
-- 
Daniel