Coolest looking written language?

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I just clicked on a "for Russian, click here" link and saw a page full of Russian text.

What beautiful looking script.



There are others here:

http://www.ask-group.co.uk/publish/russianalph.htm

Trippy?


Hey - its somewhat original.

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1. Elvish

or

[Shadowen]

9. Y'damn right!

Tolkien all the way, baby.

[antigone382]

11. Thought stealer!!!

That's what I was gonna say!

Leave me alone, I'm pouting. x(

[mcscajun]

16. Tengwar it is!

Quenya or Sindarin, makes no difference to me. :)

[liberalpragmatist]

2. I still like Arabic and Bengali

Arabic script is gorgeous.

I also like Bengali script:



http://www.blss.portsmouth.sch.uk/hsc/benscript.shtml

[short bus president]

4. Arabic and Hebrew are both very pretty languages, visually.

When spoken, however, both can be very phlegm-ish. ;-)

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6. I'd never seen Bengali before tonight

It is beautiful

[EstimatedProphet]

3. I speak some Russian, and that is one of the advantages IMO

you get to learn a different alphabet.
But as far as the coolest looking alphabet, I think it's Tamil:

[Deja Q]

5. Why you commie you! ...

:evilgrin:

Greek is for me, and it's Greek to me too! :crazy:

[njdemocrat106]

17. I'll have to agree with you on Greek

Coolest SOUNDING, in my opinion though, is Italian.

[bobweaver]

7. Farsi (Iran)

[Placebo]

8. Arabic.

Prettttty...

[Fridays Child]

10. Bengali is pretty. Look...

[name not needed]

12. Russian

[rug]

13. thai

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. Here's Georgian

and here's Burmese




One of my linguist friends described both of these as looking "as if they came off the side of a UFO."

[LandOLincoln]

15. Arabic, hands down. n/t

[soothsayer]

18. Yet their numerals are so ordinary...!

[sakabatou]

19. Atlantean... from that bad Disney movie.