Re: Doctor Who Spotting

On 2024-06-15 10:30:55 +0000, Daniel70 said:

Your Name wrote on 14/6/24 8:29 am:

On 2024-06-13 10:21:15 +0000, Blueshirt said:

Daniel70 wrote:

Blueshirt wrote on 12/6/24 10:59 pm:

 You wait til we start talking about the Irish language, we
don't even have 26 letters in our alphabet!

 More or Less??

 Less. There's only 18 letters in the Irish alphabet.

 The Rotokas language of New Guinea only has 12 letters in the alphabet (and two of those letters sound the same!).  :-p
 The Khmer language of Southeast Asia has 74 letters in the alphabet, including 24 dependent vowels and 12 independent vowels.
 The Chinese language has over 50,000 symbols (many are only historic usage), but only 24 basic characters. Japanese, originally based on Chinese, has similar numbers.  :-)

 In my viewing of Archeological-type Ducos, I've other wondered how many Hieroglyph the Ancient Egyptians used.

    "Altogether there are over 700 different hieroglyphs,
     some of which represent sounds or syllables; others
     that serve as determinatives to clarify the meaning
     of a word."
     <https://www.penn.museum/sites/egypt/writing.shtml>