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🈯️ Linguistics

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Linguistics

I have been a linguist since my early childhood. I jokingly changed my middle name to language in my early childhood, but I think it would fit as a 2nd middle name.

Cyrillic Zhe sample Ж

I like the look and sound of various languages, whether they are human spoken or machine instructions. Unfortunately, I can't write completely in a language other than English, Python, HTML, or markdown.

Georgian language

Georgian is an interesting language to me that expanded my interest in Linguistics around 2018-2019.

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs

I have interest in hieroglyph languages, Ancient Egyptian was the first one I saw.

Tifinagh alphabet (Berber languages)

I like the aethetics of the Berber language, it was a highlight of mine in 2019. I used to play with the Windows character map looking at languages, and this was one that really caught my eye.

Japanese	Chinese	Korean

I am easily able to tell the difference between the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean languages, although I can't read/write in them, and I only know how to say a handful of words in these languages.

Gothic language

One day, I was browsing Wiktionary, and I discovered the Gothic language. It has a really cool alphabet. My favorite letter in the Gothic alphabet is 𐌸

Greek language

Greek is another interesting language. I am actively memorizing and researching the language.

Icelandic alphabet

Functionally speaking, if I were to use another language other than English as my preferred primary language, I would choose Icelandic. It is functional, and fits with me well.

Latin alphabet

I know several Latin phrases, but, like most people, I speak a language that uses the Latin script, but not Latin itself. I also know that Latin has a lot more letters than what is typically seen, there are close to 500 Latin letters (when you account acutes, diacritics, and other letters)

Ukrainian alphabet

I have been trying to learn the Ukrainian language instead of the Russian language since 2022. I set a goal in 2023 to learn 1 Ukrainian word per day, but unfortunately, I stopped after about 40 days. Ukrainian is very mutually intelligible with the Belarusian and Russian languages.

Armenian alphabet

Armenian is another unique looking language. I have yet to learn a single word in Armenian.

Arabic language

I know some words in Arabic. It is a hard language for me to learn, as it contains a different script, and the writing direction is right to left, instead of left to right.

Cuneiform minor	Cuneiform major

I learned how to write a little bit in Cuneiform. It isn't a skill I use very often, as it is not needed very much nowadays.

Hebrew language

Hebrew is another right to left language, and has interesting simplicity in its writing system. I know few words in Hebrew.

Classic Mongolian language

Mongolian is a unique language, as it is written vertically, instead of horizontally. The modern version of the Mongolian language isn't as unique, as it just uses Cyrillic.

ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ

Unfortunately, Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 by default don't support a font that supports the classic Mongolian lannguage.

⭐️ Overview

I have a strong interest in linguistics, it doesn't matter the language, the writing system, the age, the history, etc. I just like learning about new languages. This interest also has expanded into programming languages. I divide it up like this:

✍️ Type	ℹ️ Sample
Human spoken languages	English
Programming language	Python
Markup language	HTML

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