• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I studied Malayalam (the language of Kerala state in southern India) and the script was fucking awesome. It’s purely syllabic and it’s impossible to pronounce a written word wrong - you just sound out the syllables and you’ve got it. Everything else about the language was impossibly alien to me as a native English speaker (like you can’t just say yes or no, you can only negate or affirm other words), but at least the script was easy.