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What's the most interesting language to you? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by SirLotsaLocks@lemmy.ml to c/linguistics@lemmy.ml

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[–] ksynwa@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 years ago (2 children)

Disclaimer: My language of linguistics is 0.

Korean is pretty interesting. A Korean friend once told me that it is a relatively newer invention, has way fewer characters than other East Asian languages, and the script looks prettier IMO because of way fewer sharp corners.

[–] SirLotsaLocks@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 years ago

Yeah it's stands out to me because of it's abundance of circles and curves compared to nearby languages like chinese

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 years ago

Thats because Korean works in the same way as the latin alphabet, so you have one character for each sound. In fact the alphabet was designed just 500 years ago or so, and each letter is supposed to represent the position of the tongue.

You can easily learn the alphabet in a week or so (but learning the language is a different matter).