How does your language work?

Question

Everyone knows that written and spoken English is composed of an alphabet of 26 letters [a, b, c...z]. I also speak Chinese, and know that it is composed of characters that each have a single meaning when composed together make a different meaning [eg. 今=this,present; 天=day; 今天=today]. I also know Japanese and Korean also use an alphabet system [a, i, u, e, o; ka, ki, ku, ke, ko; etc] and they also use some Chinese characters. So, what is your language like? Does it use characters or alphabet system? Please state your country and language. This will be very interesting!

Answer 1

I speak Polish. There are 25 "basic" letters - the ones that you say when you learn the alphabet:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, Ł, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, X, Y, Z.
There are also letters writen with diacritic symbols and nasal vowels:
ą, ę (nasals); ć, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż.
We also have got compound letters:
ch, cz, dz, dź, dż, rz, sz.

The Polish spelling can be difficult even for the Polish children, because some letters are pronounced the same but are spelled differently:
u - ó; ż - rz; h - ch

Answer 2

I speak english and spanish. They are in an alphebet system and english is a very confusing language to understand.

I speak a little bit of hebrew which is also on an alphabet system. Aleph to tav and all those in between. I dont speak enough of it however to tell you what its like .

i would love to learn chinese/japanese tho.

Answer 3

The three languages I speak all use the Latin alphabet. Most of the time I'm based in Canada

Answer 4

I'm leaning korean. In English sentences go as "Subject Verb Object" but in Korean it's "Subject Object Verb". Some letters changes in pronounciation depending on whether or not the next letter follows/before it is a consonant or vowal, that's another hard part :/

Answer 5

My mother tongue is Turkish. People usually think that Turkish is similar to Arabic but in reality it's not. We have borrowed many words from Arabic and Persian because of our historical and geographical relations with those countries. But the structure of our language is quite different from those languages as Turkish is from a different language family (Uralic).

Anyway, in Turkish we use the Latin alphabet. There are 29 letters in Turkish alphabet. We don't have x, w and q but we have ş, ç, ı, ğ, ö, ü.

The alphabet is like this; a, b, c, ç, d, e, f, g, ğ, h, ı, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, ö, p, r, s, ş, t, u, ü, v, y, z.

Answer 6

USA: English, BUT:

I know some German and Latin which both deal with the biggest pain known to any language, Gender.
The random assigning of Male, Female, and Neuter to any and all nouns is the only part of language that really requires complete memorization.

Answer 7

I speak Irish Gaelic and Spanish. Irish Gaelic alphabet is made up of the following letters: a á b c d e é f g h i í

Answer 8

i speak Chinese too, so its basically the same as your language.

i am learning French (taking french courses) and it uses the 26 english alphabet, too. but there are accents on some of the words, and in English if you're saying 'the brown book' in French it would be like 'the book of brown'.

Answer 9

I am a Native American. Our language is written in our own characters. You can learn more about us in Canada and the United States by looking for the Cree people.

Answer 10

I'm Indonesian.. and I speak Bahasa Indonesia, and English..
yes, we use alphabet system, and it's seems like melayu..