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

میں تھکی ہوئی ہوں

@BIWI

Ohhhh, I knew there were 4 tones, but it didn't register how that would factor with kanji.

So a kanji can have 4 sounds?

Arabic? It's very beautiful!!

How wonderful! Is this Arabic?

And how would one pronounce this sentence, please?

Urdu?

わたし は にほんご べんきょうします

I have hiragana (but don’t know many kanji).

слава Україні

I might be completely wrong but is this
My name is ...

The easiest of the three Japanese alphabets - forgot its name - that I did practice writing in a lifetime ago...

It’s “I am studying Japanese”. “My name is” would be わたしの なまえは。。。

@CordeliaNaismithVorkosigan haha. Thank you.
Warashi ... Nihon (?)
Watashi no namae wa... 😆

@dilav
@CordeliaNaismithVorkosigan

私は日本語を勉強しています。

I am studying Japanese.

In pure hiragana:

わたしはにほんごをべんきょうしています。

Watashi ha nihongo wo benkyou shiteimasu. 😊

Watashi wa nihongo benkyou shimasu.

Love this thread! Have you seen Amharic (Ethiopian) writing @LauderSyme, that one always fascinates me. Thai and Georgian and, I think, Sinhalese are also beautiful to look at.

I studied linguistics as a small part of my degree, really wish I could have done it properly. Language and word origins are so interesting.

Ah, you managed to get the extra “o” in - I couldn’t get my keyboard to do that, it came out as お 。

Not every character has four tones, but 'ma', for instance, has three/four:

first tone - for 妈妈 meaning mother
second tone for 吗 - a colloquial way of saying 'what'
third tone for 马 - meaning horse
... and just to confuse things further, neutral tone for 吗, which is used at the end of a sentence to show it's a question you're asking

Interesting you said that!! I'm considering doing the online Linguistics masters with Birmingham uni!

And now I see how you did it を!

Right. That puts Chinese back in the lead for most difficult language 🤣

It’s an old German script called Sütterlin. It says “how are you”

Not Polish, but close, Czech.
We have very similar set of sounds as Polish and some vocabulary overlap. The difference at first glanc is that we use accents where Polish use digraphs. So we use "Š" very similarly to Polish "SZ".

I tried to transcribe the sounds, but some were tricky.

Kůň:
K like kitten
uu like the vowel in "tool"
nj like in Anja, or ñ in mañana

Příšerně:
PRZII - normal P, than our special Ř sound and long i
I haven't found equivalent of Ř sound in any English word. Actually, it is so unusual sound, that many people from Slavic countries can't pronounce it properly, no matter how long they live here. It has a pronounciation example on Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%98

Yeah you still write the 'wa' as 'ha' and 'o' as 'wo' 🤣

Ah I lived in Japan many moons ago and the Hiragana here takes me right back.

My offering:

الأسبوع المضي، ذهبت الى الشرق الاوسط.

Not sure of the first word (Slava?), think second says Ukraine....