I know the English alphabet consists of 26 letters, but I also am aware that other languages have more letters or characters within their alphabet. So my question is what language has the most (and therefore also longest) alphabet in the world?
2007-04-08 12:58:04 · 12 answers · asked by Answer-Me-This 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
According to Guinness, it's Khmer. (Languages like Chinese, technically, do not use an alphabet but have an ideographic writing system.)
2007-04-08 13:09:38 · answer #1 · answered by paladin 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I believe Nick in case you mean the main written symbols. although, "alphabet" implies a phonetic language (from the 1st 2 letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta) on an identical time as the climate of chinese language characters represent which potential incredibly than sound. On relaxing minutiae i found an identical question with some marvelous solutions; the final one gave the prize to Khmer with 68 characters, bringing up the Guinness e book of international information.
2016-10-02 09:33:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Russian alphabet has 33 letters . Is the longest I know. (Chinese and Japanese languages have no alphabet, of course they have much more signs)
2007-04-08 13:07:24 · answer #3 · answered by M.M.D.C. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but I want to correct some people.
Japanese isn't alphabetic, but it isn't completely ideographic either. Japanese has several writing systems, with the most common being a syllabary (consonant, vowel combinations for each letter)
Arabic, just as Hebrew and Devanagari (used to write Hindi) are all alphabets because they are phoneme based
2007-04-08 18:20:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Chinese had an alphabet, it's number of phonemes wouldn't make it the longest one. They should create a simple alphabet, one symbol per phonetic element.
2007-04-08 18:45:32 · answer #5 · answered by Travis J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arabic, Japanese and Chinese all don't really have 'alphabets', but a different script for every word. So I guess you could say those 3
2007-04-08 13:20:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
palyddon is right.
The Khmer alphabet is the largest alphabet in the world (Guinness Book of World Records, 1995).
2007-04-08 13:30:15 · answer #7 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chinese does not have and alphabet, it is all based on sound.
The correct answer is
Country: Cambodian
Number of letters: 74
2007-04-08 13:06:30 · answer #8 · answered by Christina Ford 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
alphabet as alphabet (i.e. not chinese script, or arabic or similar), it may be slovak (45 letters). hungarain (44 letters) and czech are also close (42 letters)..
2007-04-08 13:14:09 · answer #9 · answered by Bober 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think chinese but they dont really have an alphabet cause each word is a character so maybe hindi or arabic or maybe cambodian
2007-04-08 13:06:45 · answer #10 · answered by shawnlovestheladies 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋