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there’s probably a mistake in all of those, i am a language larper actually i just like learning words

    • pigenOP
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      7 hours ago

      i actually would be interested i was confused at first but I think both are mostly written in Latin now? Id that right? Did you have to learn to read in Arabic for either of them?

    • pigenOP
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      7 hours ago

      ok that’s cool, both Swahili and Somali are agglutinative so you slap shit together to make big words instead of mostly isolated words like English. i also think it’s neat Swahili puts subject object verb word order. Makes it similar to Japanese which is also agglutinative and SOV. also Cool Swahili is written in Arabic sometimes I’ve never learned an RTL writing system . i couldn’t come up with anything to ask other than lame stuff like “waow how is x writing system vs y” which usually nobody has an opinion on but yeah

      • pleasantaftertastes
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        7 hours ago

        you have a good eye, but you made a small error. While Somali can be written in arabic script (Osmanya or Ga’ez historically) our official orthography has been Latin based since 1972. You would only see it that way if you learned it through older texts or maybe certain regional contexts. (maybe with some of the more rural areas, like the south where I am from.)

        • pigenOP
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          7 hours ago

          gotcha that’s cool! i always like asking about the changes. for instance Korean had a pretty gradual transition away from han glyphs to hangul and ppl sometimes learned the old script in school. i asked my Vietnamese friend similarly as they historically wrote in han script instead of latin like now but apparently there, nobody learns the old way except for like calligraphy that isn’t really meant for anyone to read

          • pleasantaftertastes
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            7 hours ago

            I still know the old way, though the transition was made long after I was born. It’s a shame many don’t, since the calligraphy is so pretty

      • pigenOP
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        7 hours ago

        moved this comment to parent

        i actually would be interested i was confused at first but I think both are mostly written in Latin now? Id that right? Did you have to learn to read in Arabic for either of them?

    • pigenOP
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      7 hours ago

      neat… googling… analyzing… figuring out language nerd questions to ask…