What is the CRAZIEST Alphabet in the Universe? 

This video was filmed and edited 95% before I went to the hospital. Still taking it relatively easy, but I'm already doing so much better. It is wild how some people actually thought I was joking about having medical issues lol. Thanks for all the kind words and encouragement to those who believed me! I'm working hard to finish The Hyperpolyglot Handbook which will be the ultimate language learning guide that will change human history forever. Stay tuned.

What really amazes me that Russian "ю" and Japanese "ゆ" make the same sound. It's an absolutely crazy coincindence

I'm surprised you never mentioned the Cherokee alphabet, which was created by a man who had seen the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets but could read neither.

Fun fact: in arabic the letters ب ، ت ، ث ,-Which they sound like "t", "b" , "th" accordingly , were before 708 AD with no dots so it's up to you to understand what letter is which depending on the context...glad they added the dots : )

0:01 That alphabet "FOK" Got me💀

we all know the best alphabet on the planet is Ancient Albanian Hand Signs

The american alphabet is very popular, it even used in ancient roman empire as its standard alphabet for the official language.

My brother, you deserve 30 million subscribers, your content is worth paying for keep up the good work !

Yooooo this channel is great

As a Georgian, I’m glad that Georgian Alphabet is also mentioned here, I can confirm how weird and scribbly it looks and guess what, it’s not our only Alphabet, we LITERALLY have like 3 Alphabets, Asomtavruli (ႠႱႭႫႧႠႥႰႳႪႨ), Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli (მხედრული) but we only use Mkhedruli currently now, we also have removed letters that we used to have in Georgian language like ჱ, ჲ, ჳ, ჴ and ჵ, these letters are still used in other Kartvelian languages like ჲ in Mingrelian, Svan and Laz, there are also additions like the F sound letter (ჶ), the Georgian Schwa (ჷ) and glottal stop which looks like a reversed Georgian y looking letter ყ (ჸ)… 🇬🇪

Traditional Mongolian. It's written up to down unlike all languages. And letters look AMAZING as heck. And doesn't have too much circles.

7:42 "One, Two, skip a few, 99" Hah, same as Animaniacs when Yakko counts to 100

I always thought that " д " from Cyrillic looked the craziest but after open-mindedly watching this video, I still think that " д " looks the craziest AND creepiest.

Fun fact: The Vai syllabary was invented in about 1833 in Liberia by Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukɛlɛ, who was inspired by a dream to create a writing system for the Vai language. In 1854 a German philologist, S. W. Koelle, met Duwalu Bukele while researching the Vai language. He was told that in Bukele's dream a tall, venerable-looking white man in a long coat appeared and said "I am sent to you by other white men ... I bring you a book." Bukɛlɛ was then shown many signs, but couldn't remeber them when he woke up, so he made new signs with some friends. Another theory is that the Vai syllabary was inspired by the Cherokee syllabary. A number of Cherokee emigrated to West Africa in the early 19th century. One of them, Austin Curtis, married a Vai woman from an influential family and became a Vai chief. It is possible that he was involved in some ways with the creation of the Vai syllabary. The syllabary proved popular with the Vai and by the end of the 19th century most of them were using it. In 1962 the Standardization Committee at the University of Liberia standardized the syllabary. A Vai version of the New Testament in the Vai script was published in 2003.

3:17 Yeah... tottaly a good seat☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

As a Bulgarian I never thought of the ю as a fish but now that you have said it I can't unsee it

I love how you are explaining some languages in the most gen Z way possible

@Language Simp Linear B (of Bronze Age Greece) is a pretty wild one: They have jerry cans, ankhs, undermined skyscrapers, undermined birdhouses, people, people, who’ve stuck a fork in an electrical outlet, and a bunch of American letters; to name just a few. I seriously recommend checking it out. 😮

4:56 hello. Actually I am from Iran . A Persian country in the Middle East. Persian , or Farsi alphabet is similar to Arabic alphabet but we have some more letters . like "ژ" that has si sound in some words like vision , or "گ" that has /g/ sound .

Each time you said “american alphabet” I felt stabbed

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the Cree syllabary. They just rotate all their letters instead of using vowels

"and this Ford F-150"

Why is ꙮ here?

bro, that "instrument" looks like a shotgun also, it should be called ligmaboob funny guy

As a Serbian the fact you covered our own alphabet is really funny. If you guys didn't know these are the sounds our specific letters make. Љ - ly, normie letter (ль) Њ - ny (or ñ), a bit different (нь) Ћ - light cousin of Ч (чь) Џ - dzh, a Д and a Ж combined Ђ - dj, a letter not even satan can grasp (џь) Ј - seriously we just took the american J and turned it into a Й Hope that sums it up! (Btw, we also use the American alphabet, we just like our Cyrillic more.)

Самый безумный алфавит - это когда люди делают свои ники из всех этих рандомных букв, которые похожи на их буквы.

I like how his eyes practically broke in the thumbnail

The church-slavonic cyrillic alphabet has a lot of interesting features. There are 3 different systems of writing: poluustav, vyaz and skoropis. Poluustav was used as a main script in books, it has a lot of diacritics and acronyms for holy words. Vyaz was used for the titles and represents the ligatures of multiple cyrillic characters. Skoropis was used for handwriting.

Timestamps: 0:01 Intro 0:26 The Egyptian Hieroglyphs 🇪🇬 1:25 The Latin Alphabet 🇻🇦 1:35 The German Alphabet 🇩🇪 2:09 The Swedish Alphabet 🇸🇪 2:23 The Slavic Alphabets 🇷🇺 3:11 The Serbian Alphabet 🇷🇸 3:41 The Greek Alphabet 🇬🇷 4:34 The Sinhalese Alphabet 🇱🇰 4:51 The Arabic Alphabet 🇵🇸 5:37 The Hebrew Alphabet 🇮🇱 5:49 The Thai Alphabet 🇹🇭 6:02 The Cambodian Alphabet 🇰🇭 6:11 Albania With Voting 🇦🇱 6:17 The Burmese Alphabet 🇲🇲 6:28 The Georgian Alphabet 🇬🇪 6:34 Zooming Into The Georgian State 🇺🇲 7:04 The Armenian Alphabet 🇦🇲 7:21 The Hangul Alphabet 🇰🇷 7:42 The 3 Japanese Alphabets 🇯🇵 7:51 His Shirt Got Changed 👕 7:57 Back To The 3 Japanese Alphabets 🇯🇵 8:25 The Mandarin Alphabet🇨🇳 8:53 The Mi'kmac Hieroglyphics 🇨🇦 9:13 The Tifinagh Alphabet 🇲🇦 9:45 The Vai Alphabet 🇸🇱 🇱🇷 10:14 The Lugaboob Language ? Edit 1: ok paleonnerd I Changed It Edit 2: It's Not American Anymore It's Latin OK

Can you make a vid about amharic which is spoken by Ethiopians in East Africa?

This "upgraded w" is called shìn שי"ן, it's doing the sounds of 'sh' and 's', it's actually need to look like a tooth. This "sliperry little snake" is called lâméd למ"ד, it's doing the sound of 'l', it's actually need to look like a cattle prod.

I hope I can be Language Simp's boyfriend one day

"the American alphabet" alternate title: "The US plagiarizes the Latin alphabet" (I get the joke but still)

We all know the craziest alphabet is math

i love your vids lmao

5:56 That letter ง ACTUALLY means snake.

Now rank the writing systems in a tier list!

the go to palestine for a nice vacation didnt age well

❤ you looks very lovely. 😊😊😊 and reason for round circle letters of south and southeast asia, is they used to write on dry banana leafs, , straight lines may torn them apart....

The languages written in my sketchbooks are my favorites. For liturgy, we have Anlai which consists of iconic symbols like chinese, but they're pronounced as a stack of pictures of your mouth, like korean. Next, you have Anguli which is those Anlai symbols, but with American and Hebrew words thrown in in an alphabet halfway between the Anlai mouth pictures and the American alphabet. It's used to define new words in Anlai covertly.

personally i like the alphabet that was seen in the beta versions of slavic languages from croatia - the Glagolitic alphabet. it seems really cool however im sad that the devs removed it before release in favour for the cyrillic alphabet. id love to see it brought back into full release.

The Ge'ez script used by the Amharic and Tigrinya languages (which are spoken in Ethiopia) looks pretty wild. Same with cuneiform writing and even more so with the Tibetian alphabet, which, when romanized, will melt your brain. You should also see the Cree syllabary system

4:07 i think it was made to look like a trident 😂

In actuality though, I think the ancient Sumerian script is a contender for the weirdest. Even if you ignore that it's the first script ever, it's done in a similar style to hieroglyphs, where they try to combine smaller pictograms to make bigger words in a way that's so awkward that they would often need to include clues to help the readers figure out the meaning, but they also had to do this in a script where you could only draw golf tees.

7:33 Thanks for censoring, I do not allow profanity in my house. I can 100% not hear this swear word

In Africa you did forget about the Ge'ez script (Ethiopia, Eritrea).

Bro called that random island amongus island💀

1. ŋ What it's called: Eng. Who uses it: Many African languages (e.g., Bambara, Bemba, Dinka, Ewe, Ewondo, Fula, Ganda, Maasai, Nuer, Shilluk, Tuareg, Wolof), several North American languages (e.g., Nuu-Chah-Nulth, O'odham), and a few others. What it stands for: The "ng" sound as in "sing." Where it comes from: The letters n and g merged; it was designed by a typographer in 1619. In English: We should have started using it as soon as it was invented, because we need the darn thiŋ. But it only shows up in pronunciation guides. 2. ɔ What it's called: Open o. Who uses it: Mainly African languages from several linguistic families; e.g., Aja, Akan, Bambara, Dinka, Ewe, Ewondo, Nuer, Shilluk, Twi. What it stands for: The vowel sound you hear before the "r" in "or"; or, in some accents of English, in words such as "caught." Where it comes from: The International Phonetic Alphabet. It was made by turning the letter c 180 degrees. In English: The English alphabet has never had a place fɔr it, except in some pronunciation guides. 3. þ What it's called: Thorn. Who uses it: Icelandic. What it stands for: The consonant you hear at the beginning of "thin." Where it comes from: The Elder Futhark runic alphabet. It was borrowed by Old English and Old Norse because the Latin alphabet didn't have a letter for the sound. In English: This used to be an English letter. It and the letter eth (ð) stood for the sounds at the starts of "thin" and "this," and were often used interchangeably. (Icelandic also uses ð, just for the consonant you hear at the beginning of "this.") Why did we stop using it? Because Europeans didn't use it, and European-trained scribes didn't like it. When we got moveable type, the letter sets didn't include it. For a while the letter y was used to stand in for it, as in ye for þe (yes, the word the - it was not pronounced "ye"), but finally th won out. Advertisement 4. ƿ What it's called: Wynn. Who uses it: Old English did. What it stands for: "W." Where it comes from: Those runes again. Notice that this letter lacks the ascender you see on þ, and the bottom of the loop angles down like in a y rather then up as in a p. In English: The letter w has only been its own letter for a few hundred years. Before that, languages that needed it often used uu or vv (which used to be the same letter - u was just a variant form of v, and both were used for the sounds we now write u and v), but Old English scribes decided it made more sense to borrow a proper distinct letter for it. But it fell out of use. In fact, today even in modern printings of Old English texts the letter w is used, because ƿ looks too much like p. Wynn? More like can't win! 5. ƕ What it's called: Hwair. Who uses it: Gothic did, but no one has spoken Gothic for about 1200 years. What it stands for: "Hw." Where it comes from: The letters h and v merged. In English: Although we used to have hw (or hƿ) all over the place - respelled now as wh - we never used this letter. Don't know ƕy not! 6. ƣ What it's called: Gha. Who uses it: various Turkic languages used to; they've all replaced it with other letters now. What it stands for: Usually a voiced velar fricative - which is like the "ch" in German "ach" but voiced. Where it comes from: A modified version of a handwritten q. In English: We've never even thought about using this letter. English did used to have the sound it stands for, but it used a different letter for it. 7. ȝ What it's called: Yogh. Who uses it: No one now, but English and Scots used to. What it stands for: A voiced velar fricative (see above) or the "y" sound, usually. Where it comes from: A handwritten form of g. In English: At first, English didn't need this letter; then it did, so it used it. Then it replaced the letter with gh because of those darn Europeans (see þ, above). Then it stopped using the sound. Meanwhile, Scots, also under the influence of European letter sets, replaced the letter with z, giving rise to names like Dalziel (pronounced like "deal"), Menzies (pronounced like "mingis"), and Kenzie (which used to be pronounced like "ken ye"). 8. ʒ What it's called: Ezh. Who uses it: Some kinds of Sami, which is spoken in Norway and a bit of Russia; also, some African languages. What it stands for: In the International Phonetic Alphabet, this stands for the "zh" sound you hear in "pleasure" and "Zhivago," but Sami uses it for a "dz" or "j" sound. Where it comes from: A handwritten form of the letter z. In English: We've had the sound in our language ever since we borrowed it from French, but we treaʒure our leiʒure too much to exert the effort to use a new letter for it. 9. ʔ What it's called: Glottal stop. Who uses it: Mostly North American languages (e.g., Klallam, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Chipewyan). What it stands for: The sound between the vowels in "oh-oh" and "uh-uh," and the sound we usually make in place of the "t" in "button" - and that Cockneys (among others) regularly replace "t" with in many places. Where it comes from: A development of the form of an apostrophe to look pretty much like a question mark without a dot; it's the symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for this sound. In English: Where we need to represent this sound explicitly, we usually just use an apostrophe. So do many languages. But apostrophes are used for so many other things… Do I think we'll ever start using this in normal written English, though? Nuʔ-uh.

5:30 "extremely beautiful writing" proceeds to show news about isis

Not mentioned, but I like the Inuktitut Syllabary (each character is a full syllable)...... Not a super fan of Korean, but LOVE their alphabet, I think it's the most ingenious and properly adapted to its language. Favourite --> Japanese :) I just think it looks beautiful..... (for the same reason people like the color blue... so no reason :) )

6:35 the fact that he says it’s from American Georgia instead of Asian Georgian XD

"im attracted to every woman and man" this man has enough love to give to +8 billion people on the planet

Mongolian script, for sure. It's like Arabic, but vertical instead of backwards. Awesome shit.

My favourite writing system is Uriovakiro.

As a sri Lankan i can confirm our letters do be thiccck

i LOVE this guy's sense of humour its just goofy languagesimp is cool

i can't believe you said cyrillic lacks pizzazz I get rock solid everytime I see ы

"American alphabet" was the most american thing I heard today

4:51 “lets teleport to Palestine for a nice Vacation” Sorry I suppose to feel sad and shouldn’t have laugh this hard

You could mention the Quipo that ancient Incas used for comunication. Btw nice videos! As an austrian, rly apreciate the german flag mentions! Lol Cheers from Brazil

"You've got the letters that look like *Pokémons* " Bro just insulted the entire pokémon community by calling the plural "pokémons".

Oreo's were invented in 1912? same year all those people died on the Titanic! I guess they were so exited for the launch that they forgot to pilot the boat.

"History is in the past for a reason." One of the most inspiring quotes ever 🙏🏻

2:27 It's kinda true. In early 18th century cyrillic alphabet was redisigned by Peter the Great to make it look more -latin- american

The sga (standard galactic alphabet) aka Minecraft enchantment table language has got to be on the top

I've made an entire script for the language you speak in this video. it's got a snake, a husk of corn, and a diamond that doesn't even make a sound

5:21 Your pronunciation of the letter ح has improved greatly, as it has for all the letters, good work! I look forward to see you speak the language as a native and me to master English!

As a Berber, I really appreciate you mentioning the tifinagh alphabets in your videos!

‏‪5:45‬‏ upgraded w looking think אין סיכוי שהוא קרא לאות שין ככה

do u know if im seeing the 3 stack words i saw a word that is like an trident that so tricky

4:41 calling these non-amongus letters is misinformation. They clearly resemble an Among Us character twerking

Ю - that‘s not a fish, THAT is a fish: ゆ (and both the Russian and the Japanese fish are pronounced yu, fascinating)

6:05 Longest letter in the world? Nah then what do you think about this alphabet "ಝೋ" ??

Interestingly the Kannada Language has two letters that also look like among us characters, the ಡ and ಢ 😀😃.

8:30 what kind of a syllable-verb-noun-pronoun is that? big fan of that

Thank you for mentioning Georgian Alphabet - 6:28 - მადლობა, რომ ახსენე ქართული ანბანი (isn't it beautiful )

4:42 my favorite letters: twerking spring breaker slapping their booty.

I'm learning Akkadian and Sumerian right now, love the Cuneiform symbols! Sumerian is proving to be crazy though, tons of ways to read the same symbols. So it's always a mess trying to find the right combination that makes up real words and a sentence.

7:45 Kanji is a freaking Indian drink I'm not kidding.

Bulgarian is the simplest and most straightforward of the Cyrillic alphabets. It is also the place of origin for the Cyrillic alphabet.

my favorite writing system is probably the Edo script which uses colors to distinguish between sounds, basically you can have the same shape but a different color and it's a different sound

German goofy words "Ä Ü Ö ß" yoo 9:17 Θ on nutshell

*6:29* As a Georgian myself this section was a really good surprise :>

Ethiopian ሌላ ቡና ይጠጡ

8:23 If you stare at this long enough, you can see a guy sitting on the toilet to the right, with the bathroom toiletries behind them, then the big letter I is the wall, and on the other side of the door is someone whose head looks like a tree walking towards the foreground.

Road signs also have their own alphabet! Person=walk Red=no Blue=yes Red+Person=don't walk Yellow=caution

Hi that was amazing ! how about you do Arabic Language Review :D

1:07 Perfect censor

I am flattered that you didn't say anything about the Sugondese language, it is so distinct and unique! The first letter of the alphabet is pronounced as zsch, and the alphabet is a reworked alien alphabet.

5:56 funny how you said thai alphabet looks like snake then proceeded to use ง as an example, in thai teaching ง most often uses งู as an example of use, and it means snake.

Bro ain't no way I think the hardest one is the Amharic letters and Syriac.

The fact that you didn't mention the AMHARIC alphabet of Ethiopia which is one of the older in Africa

9:35 Which also happens to be HK’s MTR logo as well…. 😂

In France they have more accented letters unless the string is capitalized, and they magically turn into regular letters. The A-ring-above letter is a Stargåte. That's a strange lowercase Beta in a more-or-less Times typeface. The Psy looks like a candle holder. Most of these foreign alphabets recycle similar shapes for different letters that are hard to tell apart. The Indian alphabet looks like the letters have been hung to dry on a clothes line.

6:30 my fav letter ever (2nd row 2nd from right)

I can't believe that he didn't mention the Ethiopian alphabet they got the coolest letters in Africa

A with an oreo LMAO

I enjoy your videos and your humor, but I would like to humbly offer a small correction: "ä," "ö," and "ü" are not considered separate letters in the German alphabet. However, letters with diacritics are considered separate letters in some languages, like Hungarian, where the letters a, á, e, é, i, í, o, ó, ö, ő, u, ú, ü, and ű are all considered to be separate letters. It seems strange, I know, but it helps to think of it like this: in Hungarian, the letter “á” is really no more a letter “a” with a mere accent than is the letter “m” merely an “n” with an extra leg. And could you speak a bit faster? It makes uptake of videos quicker and, unfortunately, You Tube does not go higher than double speed.

2:04 I'm learning German, and I think the ä makes the /ɛ/ sound, sort of like the e in friend (in American English only). Otherwise, it makes the /æ/ sound, which is an in-between of /a/ (like a as in apple in some dialects of English) and /ɛ/. So, in short, you basically made the right sound

p.s my username is written in the gigachad javanese script also the various Mongolian scripts look cool. not to mention cuneiform which uses rebus and pictograms which is made by pressing sticks into smartphone shaped squares of clay. 'Ditema tsa Dinoko' in South Africa looks like a bunch of triangle shaped flags and is really cool. Other weird african ones are 'Edo' script looks like little multi-coloured lamb chops. And the 'Mandombe' script looks like a greek labarynth in birds eye view.