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Do languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis? (aussie.zone)

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[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Asian

The Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Hebrew alphabets are more similar to each other than to any south / southeast Asian alphabet. Chinese and Korean are completely unrelated to this alphabet family (which is of Egyptian origin), or to each other. Japanese has four scripts. So you'll need to be a little more precise than 'Asian'.

To answer your original question, Cyrillic and Greek have upper case, Arabic and Hebrew have cursive which is not exactly the same, and neither Chinese nor south Asian scripts have upper case.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Japanese has four scripts.

Wait what's the fourth? Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana and what?

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Latin (Romaji)

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's also Arabic derived from the Phoenician alphabet same as Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew.

And written languages descended from Sanskrit such as Hindi, Nepali, and Punjabi.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I already mentioned those?

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oops, I missed that you mentioned Arabic. I stand by mentioning Sanskrit derived languages, though. Just think that's too many people speaking and writing those to leave off the list.

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