How many scripts (alphabets) can you read?

[Absinthe]

I love learning different scripts!

I can read the latin script (of course), and I include the swedish and finnish alphabets under this category, even though there are special characters (å, ö, ä).

I can read the greek script (of course ), which looks like:

Η ελληνική γλώσσα είναι μία από τις ινδοευρωπαϊκές γλώσσες, για την οποία έχουμε γραπτά κείμενα από τον 15ο αιώνα π.Χ. μέχρι σήμερα. Αποτελεί το μοναδικό μέλος ενός κλάδου της ινδοευρωπαϊκής οικογένειας γλωσσών. Ανήκει επίσης στον βαλκανικό γλωσσικό δεσμό.

I also can read the Devanagari script which is used for several Hindu languages, sanskrit included.

लक्ष्मीर्वसति जिह्वाग्रे।
जिह्वाग्रे मित्रबान्धवा:।
जिह्वाग्रे बन्धनं प्राप्तंजिह्वाग्रे मरणं ध्रुवम्।

^ If one understands Devenagari, then with some effort it's not too hard to read the Bengali script as well.

I can also understand the Cyrillic script most of the times, without even trying. Many of its letters are common with greek. I want to practice a bit so I can understand all of the letters and combinations.

Есть человек, есть проблема. Нет человека, нет проблемы.

I would like to learn as many as possible. Especially the Arabic and the Chinese ones are intriguing, because I get so pissed off looking at signs and inscriptions at the immigrants areas and shops, and not understand what they're writing.
It feels like they're conspiring underneath our noses.

[Red Skull]

Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese and Greek to an extent.

[Treffie]

Besides Latin, I can read Cyrillic, Greek (with difficulty) and Mkhedruli.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia...cular_alphabet

Never got round to learning any of them though - only a couple of sentences here and there.

[Absinthe]

WTF is Mkhedruli?

[edit] I see! I was always intrigued by this one. Doesn't it look like Clingon language?

[Treffie]

WTF is Mkhedruli?

[edit] I see! I was always intrigued by this one. Doesn't it look like Clingon language?

It's so easy to learn, you could probably pick it up in a day or two!

[Osweo]

I love learning different scripts!

Good fun, isn't it! And a bit like learning secret codes...

I can read the latin script (of course), and I include the swedish and finnish alphabets under this category, even though there are special characters (å, ö, ä).

Bet you can't read this application of it:
Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn anwyl i fi, Gwlad beirdd a chantorion enwogion o fri, or however it's spelt.
The Latin alphabet's terrible - there are as many orthographies as there are languages, almost!

I can read the greek script (of course ),

Try this Latin form;
wj mousotrafhj kai taj para epistatai lexeij, oide thn twn qewn dialekton, olde ta twn qewn (onomata), wj upo mouswn katapneomenoj. qelwn o poihtnj deixai oti mousolhptoj estin, ou monon ta twn anqrwpwn onomata epaggelletai eidenai all wsper kai oi qeoi legousi

That's what it looks like on Northvegr's online Grimm book! Awful, trying to remember that 'q' is a theta, and 'j' is a sigma!

I can also understand the Cyrillic script most of the times, without even trying. Many of its letters are common with greek. I want to practice a bit so I can understand all of the letters and combinations.

I'm in the same position, but from the other direction, if you see what I mean. There are some rather horrific versions of Cyrillic out in Turkestan that are difficult, though, as you can see on the side of food packaging in the Sovietosphere for Kazakhstan and Mongolia and so on. They put all sorts of squiggly tails on the normal letters. Kyrill and Mefodiy must be turning in their graves. (Actually, these brothers invented the very different, and rather impractical Glagolitic script. Modern 'Cyrillic' is a later Bulgarian innovation, based on Greek, with a few made up letters and one taken from Hebrew)

I would like to learn as many as possible. Especially the Arabic and the Chinese ones are intriguing, because I get so pissed off looking at signs and inscriptions at the immigrants areas and shops, and not understand what they're writing.
It feels like they're conspiring underneath our noses.

Here's one from a shop near me:

I know some of their letters (not all, those odd 'hollow' sounds confuse me), and it doesn't seem to be anything simple like Salam aleikum, or Allahu Akbar or whatever... Any ideas, anyone?

I know the Latin alphabet, Greek, Cyrillic, Ogham, Runes, Georgian and Armenian scripts. The last two are useful, nobody knows them near enough, and if you write using English grammar, Irish words and Armenian letters, there's probably only about a half dozen people in the world who can understand your secret notes!

[Treffie]

Bet you can't read this application of it:
Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn anwyl i fi, Gwlad beirdd a chantorion enwogion o fri, or however it's spelt.

You're getting very cheeky Mr Oswiu!!

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn anwyl i fi, Gwlad beirdd a chantorion enwogion o fri

In Georgian

მაი ხენ უულად ვუ ნჰადაი უნ ანოილ ი ვი, გუულა ბაირდჰ ა ხანტორიონ, ენუუოგიონ ო ვრი

(more or less, anyway!)

[Absinthe]

Try this Latin form;
wj mousotrafhj kai taj para epistatai lexeij, oide thn twn qewn dialekton, olde ta twn qewn (onomata), wj upo mouswn katapneomenoj. qelwn o poihtnj deixai oti mousolhptoj estin, ou monon ta twn anqrwpwn onomata epaggelletai eidenai all wsper kai oi qeoi legousi

Isn't that from the Iliad?

edit: no it's not. I just realized that "j" is used in place of the greek s (ς). It looks more modern.

[Osweo]

Besides Latin, I can read Cyrillic, Greek (with difficulty) and Mkhedruli.

[Treffie]

^It's filtered with me Oswiu, all I can see is red crosses on white boxes!