okay so let's cast our minds back to ancient Egypt we have our logo graphic pictorial written system of the Egyptian hieroglyphics that were borrowed by the Phoenicians for their own writing system which developed into the object system which has a similar character for each of the consonants but no vowels so as they developed their abject system from the Egyptians logographic system so too did the Greeks take the objet system with no vowels and add some vowels around the eighth century to create the alphabetic system so the alphabetic writing system consists of symbols or characters or letters that represent consonants as well as vowels and these include the Greek script Cyrillic Armenian Georgian the Latin Roman script gothic and the Hangul script as well so first let's talk about the Big Daddy the Greek alphabet parent to Latin sobolik Armenian and gothic and many more writing systems so both classical and modern Greek has 24 letters ordered from alpha to Omega and from the Greek alphabet come the Latin slash Roman script so this is used by much of Western European language languages like Irish English French Spanish and goes on and on and on Australasia I can't compete in languages in several African languages this is everywhere so not only is it everywhere but is in fact the widest you used to script around the world so where did this come from well when a group of Greek people migrated to the qma region of Italy which is now modern-day Naples they took their version of the Greek script with them the Latin script originated from a variant of this ancient Greek script called the ubian script for the cue million alphabets here is an example of the UBN script of the 8th century BC this ubay in Canadian alphabet was adopted by old italic languages and used between the 8th to 1st centuries BC so we have the flow from the Greek script to the old italic script to the Latin script so here is an Etruscan language script which is an old italic language some of these letters look somewhat recognizable to us but the old Latin that is adopted from the Etruscan script should look even more familiar we've lost this theta letter and we've gained some other more familiar ones the Cyrillic script is a combination of the Greek alphabet and an older Slavic script called the Glagolitic alphabet here is an example of the glycolytic inscription on a church in croatia and again the modern-day Russian this is used across Eastern Europe in northern Central Asia as well as in the language of depression Bulgarian Kazakh and many many more Armenian and Albanian scripts were developed around 450 ad modeled on Greek alphabet so with possible influence from - object systems pallavi which is old iranian and syria which is a semitic language here are two examples one of our median script on the left and of the albanian script which looks very pretty but is unfortunately now extinct next let's talk about Hangul so if we recall before we talked about Hansa which comes from the Chinese love graphic characters which have now been replaced in modern Korea by humbled so before the 5th century Korean was written using these Chinese characters but Korean is very phonetically different from these Chinese characters in Hangzhou was not very efficient so to combat this Hangul was like created invented in the 15th century AD by the king of Korea King Sejong the great who is this guy over here Hangul has been considered because it had been engineered to be efficient one of the easiest writing systems to learn in the world and I recommend if you're interested you take a look at this site which will teach you how to read Korean in 15 minutes I did do it and forgot it how to do it but I did learn it at one point I did know how to do it it's quite fun if you have a free a free 15 I recommend it now let's talk about the abugida writing system or the Alpha syllabary system abugida is segmental writing system in which a consonant vowel sequence are written as a unit so each unit is based on a confident letter and then a vowel rotation that which is like a second or a symbol this is called together a diacritic so this contrasts with a full alphabetic writing system in which bowels have a status equal to countenance right you have one vowel after one consonant sometimes and this also contrasts with it stop generating system in which a vowel marking is absent or optional so abugida is somewhere in between this abjad and the alphabetic writing systems so an example of the iboga writing system is the Hindi Devon agree snipped yeah did I say that right Devon Devon agreed yeah here the vowel symbols are added at diacritics to the consonant symbol so we have the basic puff symbol and then the vowels are added on after it's same thing with the cup this basic cut symbol and the vowels are added on ad side quick now individual vowel symbols when they are used are not attached to confidence they are their own thing like like so so which languages use a boogita well all Indic which come from the european Leawood family indo-european family Dravidian and tibeto-burman languages in sub-agent subcontinent use abugida like the Bengali script Sanskrit Punjabi script as well as Tamil as well as the Sinhala script which is in Sri Lanka which is not pictured here various South East Asian languages also use a bow gita like Tibetan as well as traditional Thai among others and various Ethiopian languages also use a Buddha like Ethiopian arm part which even though it is a Semitic language it does not use the abjad writing system that uses the Abuelita one next let's talk about the syllabary writing system so remember a single simple syllable in English can be as big as consonant consonant vowel consonant consonant or as small as a single vowel by itself so therefore an English syllable can be written as in parentheses these optional characteristics with a necessary nucleus right but they can be as big as six characters a single syllable this contrasts with Japanese where the largest possible syllable is a consonant vowel so Japanese words always follow this optional consonant vowel optional consonant vowel structure here are a bunch of examples so as you can see all of these words follow this consonant vowel consonant vowel consonant vowel structure with the constant being optional as you see in Anaka where are you the second syllable does not have a consonant so we can see when you write Japanese characters in Latin script how strict the Japanese syllable system is and so as a result we end up with 46 possible syllables in the Japanese language there is a symbol each for all of these 46 syllables contained in what we call a syllabary so a syllabary writing system consists of symbols representing every syllable so examples of this are the Japanese writing systems katakana and hiragana a few Chinese languages like child so - Huang and Li soup as well as the Cherokee language which is spoken in Oklahoma in North Carolina so here we have the example of a deaf Japanese syllabary writing system we have hiragana and then canta canta and then the pronunciation under it and we've got the Cherokee syllabary writing system we also have some newer mixed writing systems so several indigenous North American languages use both a combination of the Abuelita and the syllabary writing systems so in essence some examples of this are Cree Oh G Bois Blackfoot Nazca P and nipa tucked in anyway so these are known as the Canadian Aboriginal syllables so here is an example of the Cree combination of the a bolita and the syllabary writing system right one of the canadian aboriginal syllabics so in some are five writing systems that we see around the world start with logographic object alphabetic Abuelita and syllabary