Ich zähle nicht Skripte, die typologisch als direkte Ableitung eines anderen Skripts kategorisiert werden. So zähle ich beispielsweise weder die persische Variante der arabischen Schrift noch die verschiedenen europäischen Varianten des lateinischen Alphabets mit. Im Gegensatz zur laotischen Schrift, die zwar ein Nachkomme der Khmer-Schrift ist, aber nicht direkt abgeleitet ist.
Änderungen:
- Das persische Alphabet ist eine direkte Ableitung der arabischen Schrift – Iran wurde in Rot geändert
- Das afghanische Paschtu-Alphabet ist ebenfalls eine direkte Ableitung der arabischen Schrift – Afghanistan wurde in Rot geändert
- Die Ge’ez-Schrift des Amharischen wurde teilweise innerhalb der heutigen Grenzen Äthiopiens entwickelt – Äthiopien wurde in Blau geändert
- Malta war fälschlicherweise blau und wurde in Rot geändert
- In bisher ungefärbten Ländern gefärbt
Verteidigung:
- Das kyrillische Alphabet wurde ursprünglich zum Teil innerhalb der Grenzen des heutigen Nordmazedoniens entwickelt – Nordmazedonien bleibt blau
- Die mongolische Schrift wird offiziell von der mongolischen Regierung verwendet und ist in Teilen des Landes die Hauptschrift – die Mongolei bleibt blau
- Das armenische Alphabet ist keine direkte Ableitung des griechischen Alphabets – Armenien bleibt blau
- Viele der blauen südostasiatischen Länder verwenden zwar Schriften, die typologische Abkömmlinge anderer vorhandener Schriften sind, sind aber keine direkten Ableitungen dieser Schriften und bleiben daher blau
Von Shoddy-Fan-584
23 Kommentare
This is a good map. Congrats.
The Arabic script was finalised in what is now Iraq. E.g. the harakat (sometimes called diacritics) were invented by al-Farahidi in Basra.
you have coloured six arab countries as blue, what languages are the one you coloured them for?
Should North Korea really be blue?
Bangladesh?
Still think the Persian script is as different from Arabic as Bulgarian from Greek
Ethiopia on the list let’s goo
Italy is debatable
What counts as a direct derivation here? Latin and Bulgarian alphabets are both derived from Greek
Taiwan is blue only if it’s considered part of China, but it shouldn’t.
Both Hiragana and Katakana are simplified forms of Chinese characters in certain styles, if that counts, then I believe countries using different variants of Latin alphabet should count too.
I think Israel is incorrect, Hebrew uses Aramaic letters which I think were developed in Lebanon or Syria not Israel.
South Asia FTW!
Good map, it’s a real shame that some countries in the developing world lost their native writing systems due to colonial rule.
I wouldn’t say japanese is *primarly* written in kana
Macedonian… Is it because it was part of Bulgaria? Cause as a language it was developed 80 years ago with the intention to be separated from the Bulgarian language.
>Mongolian script is used officially by the Mongolian government **and is the primary script in parts of the country** – Mongolia remains blue
Only if you’re counting Inner Mongolia. Mongolian in the Republic of Mongolia is primarily written in the Cyrillic script, and it’s not even close.
I think Taiwan is still writing in traditional Chinese characters and haven’t adopted officially the simplified Chinese Mandarin character system.
Why is Nepal marked blue? They use the Devanagari script which did not originate there
The official languages of Hong Kong are Chinese (de facto Cantonese, de jure not specified) and English, neither of which were developed locally.
Hate to break it to you but Somali uses the Latin Alphabet first and foremost
There was like 3 different scripts up for contention (mainly the Osmanya one) at one point roughly around the late 50s early 60s but the military regime of Siad Barre in 1969 basically put an end to all of that when they began using the at the time disliked latin script, this has remained uncontested ever since
In Djiboutis case, alongside Somali, its other national language Afar *also* uses Latin (I dont think I have to say anything about its actual sole official language of French)
I think people dont have a problem with the map itself but with the idea behind it. They care about the nation and not modern day borders (im talking about north macedonia ofc).
Neo tifinagh was invented by a algerian-libyan living in france
Cree and Inuktitut are official languages in parts of Canada, and both syllabaries were developed in Canada.