estutweh@aussie.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 days agoDo languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?message-squaremessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down13
arrow-up1135arrow-down1message-squareDo languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?estutweh@aussie.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 days agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-squareshoebum@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoI agree about how languages leave out groups that can indicate a lot about the script and its people. And imposing scripts do kill that implicit. But don’t you think that’s how most new languages are created. I’m assuming there must have been so many language impositions throughout history. In fact hindi was created by Brits because hindi was not a single language till 1600s Having said that, what was the core question that you wanted to address?
I agree about how languages leave out groups that can indicate a lot about the script and its people.
And imposing scripts do kill that implicit.
But don’t you think that’s how most new languages are created. I’m assuming there must have been so many language impositions throughout history.
In fact hindi was created by Brits because hindi was not a single language till 1600s
Having said that, what was the core question that you wanted to address?