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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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The Last Doctor wrote on 15/6/24 10:31 pm:
> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Over 700, but they were of differing types

WOW!! And I can just about manage 26!! ;-)

> - logograms, which were literal images of objects - eg “eye” meant
> “eye”; phonograms, which were an expanded alphabet - 24
> single-consonant hieroglyphs, plus some two- and three- consonant
> symbols (with implicit vowels) ; determinatives, symbols that
> clarified the meaning of the preceding hieroglyph; and strokes used
> for numbers etc.
> 
> With variations there were actually thousands of symbols but most 
> people wouldn’t have known what most of them meant. The phonograms 
> evolved into the middle-Egyptian Demotic script as the other 
> hieroglyph types faded away as scholars needed to understand each 
> others work, and then later into Coptic.
> 
-- 
Daniel