Please share your keyboards in other languages

[LauderSyme]

I love letters, words and lexicons, probably goes without saying here.

Would anyone with a keyboard in a non-Roman alphabet language like to share a sentence? I'll start. Bonus points for anyone who can translate into English. Mine is easy!

Είναι όλα ελληνικά για μένα.

EE-neh AW-lah elli-ni-KA ya MEN-na

Greek is really nice. I did my minimal pre-vacation Duolingo Greek and it was fun how once I got the pronunciation, I often understood a part of meaning as well.

I'll add a Roman based, but heavily accented.

Žluťoučký kůň příšerně úpěl ďábelské ódy.

ZHLU-tiou-chkyy kuunj PRZII-sher-nie UU-piel DIAA-bel-skee ou-dy

Meaning is "Yellowish horse terribly wailed devil's odes" and it is our semiofficial national test sentence (for example when selecting fonts for typography) which contains all our accented letters.

יום שלישי וכבר נמאס לי מהשבוע הזה
It's Tuesday and I've already had enough of this week.

I can't do the diacritics on the phone.

Does ελληνικά mean Greek?

@LauderSyme "It's all Greek to me" 😂 Nice one, and thanks for the pronunciation hints! I definitely need to brush up my crappy tourist Greek.

How the hell does one type an "o circonflex" and a cedilla on the on-screen French keyboard?

Edit: just found the cedilla 🙄

@Dilbertian Yes 🙂where 'Hellenic' comes from.

Greece is Ελλάδα.

I think your language is Hebrew? Using Google Translate I think I found Tuesday at the end of the sentence. Those letters have lovely shapes. How would you pronounce that please?

@ZiriForGood is your language Polish?

How do you pronounce kunnj PRZII---- please?

I love Greek too!😊

Two from me -

İyi akşamlar!

Как сте, днес?

好主意！

Am going to guess before I use Google Translate this time. Are yours Turkish and Russian?

@LauderSyme not Russian.

Closer to Greece + Turkey...

Ds is learning Mandarin Chinese and thinks yours means very roughly "good living experience time"?!

I can read the kanji - but there's no hiragana so Mandarin, not Japanese

Armenian?

"How are you?"

Ds just told me what kanji and hiragana are and that about half of Japanese characters are borrowed from Chinese. I love learning this stuff.

Turkish and bulgarian?

Armenian is written in its own alphabet.

Yes- How are you doing today?, but in Bulgarian.

The Early Cyrillic alphabet was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Tsar Simeon I the Great

@SKG2007 yep 👍

Yeah sort of. All the kanji are adopted from Chinese, however Chinese uses a few thousand more than Japanese

Reason is hiragana is used for grammar, while Chinese use additional kanji for grammar

And Chinese kanji have one reading (sound) for each Kanji, while Japanese has multiple

Wow, how do you know this?! Really interesting!

It's Hǎo zhǔyì!, which means 'lovely idea'!

@picklesandcucumbers

And Chinese kanji have one reading (sound) for each Kanji, while Japanese has multiple

Not true, I'm afraid! Chinese (Mandarin) is a tonal language, and each vowel sound has a different tone. There are four tones (and some are neutral).

So I could say to you 'I love your mother' or, if I'm not careful and I use the wrong tone, 'I love your horse'!

How about this one?

Yom shliSHI, v'kvar ni-MUSS li mi-hu-shuVOOah haZEH.

It's really difficult to write the sounds of one language in another language! The u is short, like in 'up'.

If you like seeing different scripts and alphabets (I totally get it 😁) have a look at this. I bet you can work out what drink it is, even if you can't read the name.

Could it be Georgian?