Modern standard arabic is written horizontally from right to left and uses twenty eight unicameral letters, that is letters that have no definition between upper and lower case, which is known as haskh script arabic is spoken by around 175 million people in north africa and the middle east and is the liturgical language of islam and one of the six official languages of the united nations. The arabic writing system certainly takes the crown in being one of the most widely used script to write other languages after latin the script im using to write this post and cyrillic. For example, most european languages use the latin writing script, with various alphabets. That is often written in a compiled language and distributed in machine code form as an executable that doesnt make sense to humans. It also does not include inscriptions consisting of isolated words or. Both languages are used by millions in and out of schools all over the world. In sociolinguistics, digraphia refers to the use of more than one writing system for the same. List of languages by first written accounts wikipedia.
Latin is an alphabet type of script and the most widely used in the world. Digraphia using two writing systems for the same language is an. The cuneiform script, created in mesopotamia, presentday iraq, ca. The north picene language of the novilara stele from c. It is also easy to extend programs written in other languages with lua. The arabic script has been employed to write nearly 100 languages, both historically and currently including afrikaans, chinese, french, and even. The most widely used writing systems are the latin, cyrillic and arabic alphabets. How do you deal with a character speaking in a different. Wikipedias in multiple writing systems meta meta wikimedia. The second most widely used script in the world is chinese, also known as hanzi, kanji. However some forms of written language, such as instant messages and email, are closer to spoken language. What is the difference between language and script not in. A spoken language may use one or more different writing scripts or writing systems, which can be based on an alphabet of letters. Historians suggest that the earliest form of writing can be traced to 8000bc.
If you think the dialogue would probably be subtitled in the movie, italicize it in the script. This is a list of languages arranged by the approximate dates of the oldest existing texts recording a complete sentence in the language. Curious about foreign language writing systems, scripts and alphabets. However, something has to run the script interpret it so the computer understands it. Which language is written in five scripts answer this multiple choice objective question and get explanation and result.
Finally, cyrillic and arabic are the basis for the writing systems of almost half a billion people each. It is estimated that the arabic script is used by close to 1 billion people worldwide. Certain languages are written with a script that goes from right to left. Spoken language tends to be full of repetitions, incomplete sentences, corrections and interruptions, with the exception of formal speeches and other scripted forms of speech, such as news reports and scripts for plays and films. It is probably the only language in india which is written in five scripts. There are six numbers written in five different scripts. Acehnese on occasion, after the colonization by the dutch adyghe before 1927 and latin script 19271938, now uses the cyrillic script afrikaans briefly, in the early 19th century arabic. Here is an interactive version for you to try out your ideas. Script is any particular system of writing or the written means of human communication. If you need to type in many different languages, the q international keyboard can help.
This generally implies relatively simple syntax and semantics. Trismegistos should have all the texts from egypt ate, as well as literary texts predating ad 800. Somebody here said sanskrit, hindi, marathi and gujarati. Typical scripting languages are intended to be very fast to learn and write in, either as short source code files or interactively in a readevalprint loop repl, language shell. Out of them, indian languages are sanskrit, hindi, rajasthani and marathi. In the west, writing begins in sumeria over 4,000 years ago and the sumerian epic of gilgamesh is a stunning example of what the written word can produce. Stroke by stroke, scripts helps you learn to write characterbased languages with fun, immersive gamelike lessons. Arabic is the third most widely used script in the. Thank you to the smile centre for permission to use this puzzle. This is a list of writing systems or scripts, classified according to some common distinguishing features the usual name of the script is given first. As per my knowledge languages those use devanagari are sanskrit, hindi, marathi, rajasthani and nepali. If characters are speaking in a foreign language for the duration of a scene or scenes, put a parenthical like in russian.
An index of all the languages of all the languages featured on this site is available in the language index. Present day writing is a result of thousands of years of evolution that emerged independently in the near east, china and mesoamerica. Learning a new writing system like cyrillic russian, arabic or hebrew. It is also the only writing system which can be traced to its earliest prehistoric origin. If you are a native speaker of one of the languages listed below which require automatic script conversion between writing systems, then you are welcome to. Among these, devanagari is the writing system for 600 million speakers of hindi. Some languages have been written with a number of different writing systems over the years.
The sumerians considered writing a gift from the god enlil as, later, the babylonians would also claim from their own version of the god nabu. It enables you to type almost any language that uses the latin, cyrillic or greek alphabets, and is free. Say hello world in 28 different programming languages. There is only fragmentary evidence for languages such as iberian, tartessian, galatian, thracian and messapian. Whereas it once was written from the bottom up, it began to flow from left to right and the characters were rotated 90 degrees. It is easy to extend lua with libraries written in other languages. Acehnese on occasion, after the colonization by the dutch. Identifying the oldest combination of hebrew script and language is hindered by a. Colonization first only modified certain aspects of the alphabet. Turkish,swahili, hausa, and uzbek are among languages that used the arabic script before they adopted either latin or cyrillic script.
Which indian languages are written in multiple scripts. Different languages may share the same writing script andor the same alphabet. Language is a medium of communication between human beings. The arabic script is written from right to left in horizontal lines. How many indian languages share the devanagari script. These writing scripts can be classified into the following categories.
Drama is different from prose forms of writing, like novels and short stories, as it is meant to be performed. Scripting language simple english wikipedia, the free. Originating from indoeuropean scripts, tagalog was the dominant writing system in philippines until the arrival of the spanish. A script is a piece of writing in the form of drama. In cases where these languages are written in another than the standard script. Another approach is to use a language designed for web scripts to be executed by the browser. Writing a system of graphic marks representing the units of a specific language has been invented independently in the near east, china and mesoamerica. Indian languages sites indian languages history and literature languages taught in north america. Hindustani, with an urdu literary standard written in arabic script and a high hindi. The languages of roughly 1, 5 billion people are written in one of the brahmi abugida scripts.
With the emergence of the brahmic family of scripts, languages of india are attested from after about 300 bc. It does not include undeciphered scripts, though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, would push backward the first attestation of certain languages. Scripts may be written in any programming language, but, because they are generally simple textprocessing routines, computer scripting languages such as perl are particularly appropriate. A visual programming language designed to let kids learn skills by programming. A scripting language is usually interpreted from source code or bytecode. The sumerian language was developed in ancient mesopotamia and is the oldest known written language. This is a list of writing systems or scripts, classified according to some common. Old hebrew script derived directly from phoenician, and christopher rollston contends that old hebrew script did not split off from its phoenician predecessor until the ninth century b. Hebrew is a northwest semitic language originally written in the palaeohebrew alphabet but later in the square script alphabet with the same name, a specific form of aramaic. An index of all the languages featured on omniglot arranged by the writing system with which theyre written. Lua is a fast language engine with small footprint that you can embed easily into your application. Languages from around the world are written by using a number of scripts. Lua has a simple and well documented api that allows strong integration with code written in other languages. This language was written in a script known as cuneiform, which was later adapted by other languages that emerged in mesopotamia and its neighboring regions, including akkadian, elamite, and hittite in the modern world, paper and various electronic devices is the medium on which.
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