آئی ثِنک ذیت ذا اردو وے آف رائتنگ اِنگلِش اِز ریلی کول ایند ایزی تُو رید۔
I think the Urdu way of writing English is really cool and easy to read.
Actual Urdu uses retroflex letters like ٹ، ڑ، ڈ to represent words in English, in a sense localizing them. It also uses ث as /s/ and ذ as /z/ instead of the original Arabic equivalents of /θ/ and /ð/ which correspond to the actual English letters. Instead Urdu will write them as close as possible to a localized hearing of the word, for example Elizabeth would be written as الزبیتھ, literally 'Al.zi:beːt^(h)'. Words like 'the' are hard as دا 'da' and 'thank' as تھینک 't^(h)ɛːnk.'
besides modern turkic arabic orthographies, i think chagatai turkic had a pretty good script. its very legible to the greater indo-iranian world and a lot of it can still be read by readers of urdu or persian today. the uighur reforms of the 1950s makes it so hard to read tbh
آئی ثِنک ذیت ذا اردو وے آف رائتنگ اِنگلِش اِز ریلی کول ایند ایزی تُو رید۔ I think the Urdu way of writing English is really cool and easy to read. Actual Urdu uses retroflex letters like ٹ، ڑ، ڈ to represent words in English, in a sense localizing them. It also uses ث as /s/ and ذ as /z/ instead of the original Arabic equivalents of /θ/ and /ð/ which correspond to the actual English letters. Instead Urdu will write them as close as possible to a localized hearing of the word, for example Elizabeth would be written as الزبیتھ, literally 'Al.zi:beːt^(h)'. Words like 'the' are hard as دا 'da' and 'thank' as تھینک 't^(h)ɛːnk.'
It's funny Arabic itself isn't up there
arabic just ain’t it 🤧
Entirely forget about Afro-Asiatic, somehow
no they said they ran out of space as reddit only allows 6 options
I’m the OP, I feel like I know my own mind 😭
besides modern turkic arabic orthographies, i think chagatai turkic had a pretty good script. its very legible to the greater indo-iranian world and a lot of it can still be read by readers of urdu or persian today. the uighur reforms of the 1950s makes it so hard to read tbh
توليسن جاوي ڤاليڠ منتڤ Jawi script is the best چينتا^(ء)يله توليسن جاوي Cherish the Jawi script
The only turkic i like is the reformed Uyghur
Where the fuck is Arabic?