zedgeist@lemmy.world to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-229 days agoAsian scriptslemmy.worldimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1379
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minus-squareanar@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·28 days agoThe script is called Devnaagari, Hindi is a language
minus-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-225 days agoMost of those scripts have names that are not the labguage names. There katakana, hiragana, and kanji for Japanese, there’s hangul for Korean etc.
minus-squareanar@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoWith Devnagiri, there is a one-to-many mapping of script to spoken languages, Hindi being only one of them. The graphic should have just listed scripts instead of spoken languages, since it is really about scripts
The script is called Devnaagari, Hindi is a language
Most of those scripts have names that are not the labguage names. There katakana, hiragana, and kanji for Japanese, there’s hangul for Korean etc.
With Devnagiri, there is a one-to-many mapping of script to spoken languages, Hindi being only one of them.
The graphic should have just listed scripts instead of spoken languages, since it is really about scripts