On 16 April 2013 18:18, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote: > Depending on which linguist does the classification and counting, there are > between six and seven thousand human languages spoken today. Fortunately, > the number of different writing systems is much smaller, but there are many, > many writing systems. Some look just like another writing system but with > only one small change in one or two letters. Others are radically different > from every other one.
Nonetheless Turkish is a "simple" language, orthographically speaking, i.e. no more complex than, say, French or German, and quite familiar to English speakers in that it uses an alphabet only somewhat enhanced compared to that used by European languages. When you start encoding Gujarati or Hindi, or have Arabic containing a quotation in Turkish containing a quotation in Hebrew is when you discover the complexity of language encoding and presentation, and even then these are alphabetic languages. Tony H.
