The reason the Ł has a line through it is because they crossed it out, so you know it doesn't make an L sound. Really helps narrow it down.

As a russian: when you try to pronounce "Ь" your eye should slide to the left and not to the right. Slide to the right for pronouncing ""Ъ" sound

As an Egyptian, im happy you find Arabic such a beautiful language. Im also practicing to master speaking English! my accent sucks when it comes to talking with others, and im not the only one. since we don't have "p" in our language, the letter closest to it when it comes to pronunciation will be "ب", so when we say words like "party" we say it "barty" lmao

As a turkish person, people uses ı so common. It’s for “Nasılsın” means how are you, “Iy” for the “Ew” thing that we use it for disgusted, like “Kırmızı” for red ec.

The devs should add these to the American alphabet!

It’s sad that Э didn’t make it to the list 😢

Fun fact in the movie scooby doo and the monster of Mexico Fred points out that the word mañyana is incorrectly spelled in the warning message written on the mystery machine when it gets the message painted on the side of the mystery machine

As to the Polish “Ł”, I think it’s a very nice expedient to preserve the etymology of a word while suggesting a different pronunciation. For example, French “chaud, haut, paume” would look much less alien to other Neo-Latin speakers if written with “ł”. Just look at their Italian counterparts: “caldo, alto, palmo”.

for those who wonders, letters ь and ъ used to be vowels centuries ago. It wasn't allowed in old russian to use consonant without vowels surrounding them (just like in modern japanese).

I like how he used the flag of Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 for Spanish, the flag of Mozambique 🇲🇿 for Portuguese, the flag of Belarus 🇧🇾, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 and the USSR for Russian and the flag of Austria 🇦🇹 for German.

As a person who spoke Russian for almost 10 years, I still don’t know the point of the “ь” letter

The El in Cyrillic looks like a Lambda in some fonts Fen TV 2003-07 uses a Lambda shaped "л" like the IPA "strut" letter

“Uppercase B with a butthole makes the S sound” 😂😂 you’re creativity and humor is top tier

There's a fun fact about cyrillic "K" compared to latin "K". Typography wise they have different anatomies. And if you're creating a typeface, you could get into trouble with seasoned typographers for not knowing this : ) Also in handwriting a lot of cyrillic letters don't look like there machine typed versions. For example "д" can be written as "g" or a horizontally mirrored "6", and as a "D" when capitalised

Þis is very accurate, and my list. I often rewatch Þis video when I'm bored

How many languages do you speak? Im bilingual, i kinda speak 3 languages but everytime i hear you, i get amazed by HOW MUCH YOU KNOW LIKE WHAT THE HELL THATS TOO MANY LANGUAGES

ツ Means tsu and シ means shi for anyone wondering (this is the katakana alphabet)

5:44 That's what she-

4:57 in egypt we don't even use the letter ق we replace it with A letter or أ to make it easy in talking

3:53 ツ is Tsu and シ is Shi. Also, it’s Katakana.

2:08 as a pole i can confirm this is a massive practical joke created by us poles to see how hard we can confuse foreigners with our orthography

5:13 This letter looks like a Chinese final boss

Polish language also has this ñ letter (making the same nya sound), but we write it with a diagonal straight line instead of a curvy one, so it looks a bit more like an accent, but is also considered a separate letter in here. It looks like this: ń and is pretty fun imo

Honorable mention:the Abkhaz Y Letter evolution Fisheye(4000 BC) Theta(1000 BC) Abkhaz Y(300 AD) Q(600 AD) Fen TV logo(2004-12)

0:52 Cool ш and щ! People often pronounce them alike, despite they (sounds, I mean) are quite different, but you did a really good job. And you made ь sound so well that you definetly will be one of the best in spelling ъ.

As a German: ß is completely normal and the difference to ss is the length of the prior vowel In Massen has a short a and means in masses In Maßen has a long a and means in moderation And in Switzerland both are spelled the same In Massen trinken ;) As for s That is rarely actually an s It is more similair to the English z

Hey dude just so you know, the character for 'biang biang noodles' is a bit different and the character you did show just makes the sound 'biang' which is the sound made while chewing the noodles this character does have a long history of it's foundation and how it was actually incorporated into computers because of its insane complexity.

As a Mexican, the Ñ is not strange, it's useful for some Spanish words like niño, niña, coño, pequeño, pequeña, año, uñas, etc.

As a Sinhala speaker I commend you for giving ඩ the sussy recognition it deserves. Half of our abugida looks sus af

Набор флагов, особенно с 1 местом меня убил😁😁

Actually, i think that the ı is used in several languages spoken near the Caspian sea, such as Azerbaijani and Kazakh, although they sometimes make different sounds.

The best thing is that he's still not getting Ы right. During his livestream, he managed to do it a couple of times

If anyone is wondering what "シ" and "ツ" means in japanese katakana, it's basically Pronounced as "shi"(シ) like in 'shield' and "tsu"(ツ) like in "tsunami"(depending on your pronunciation to the word, the 't' part is pronounced a bit)

Before the standardization of Basque orthography, ŕ and ĺ were proposed by Sabino Arana Goiri to respectively represent intervocalic [r] sound and [ʎ] sound. They didn't make it to the actual alphabet, but they would have been pretty cool imo

I appreciate you putting all the flags up so I can follow along and make sense of everything…… 🤨

and basically ع also means eye in pronounced arabic and written عين so extra letters LMAO and pronounced the same aayn or as we write in latin arabic social media texts 3ayn 3 represent the ع

The R in Portuguese is crazy because depending on where it is in the word AND depending on the accent of the person speaking it can represent basically all the sounds for R in European languages. In some places it’s even pronounced the English way.

Speaking of Belarus, which official flag used in the video, we also have the nice letter "Ў" which pronounces exactly like the Polish "Ł" ;)

The last one: Not your sound, Not my sound, OUR SOUND

In fact; In the Philippines ACTUALLY COMBINED letter "N" and "G" TO MAKE A LETTER . IN WORDS HERES THE WORD: Ngipin (Teeth) N-gi-pi-in So NGI has a NG so Americans think NGIPIN HAS 6 LETTERS, But it has 5 Letters actually. Pretty Cool? Right?

6:30 ah yes, biblically accurate ō

I þink ðat ðis video was very well put togeðer and ðat Language Simp has made a perfectly unbiased list.

I remember learning Spanish and my Spanish teacher told us the history of the letter "ñ". Basically early Spanish monks were copying literature and many words that had the nya sound were written with "nn". So the Spanish word for canyon, cañón, would have been spelled cannón. Monks were short on paper so they had to shorten many words. So the "nn" was shrunk down to "ñ".

The Dutch G arleady SOUNDS BUTIFUL

Ы - is actually as easy one, it substitutes И - the equivalent of I in English, but adds more "hardness". For instance, ЖИВОТ (belly) is actually pronounced as ЖЫВОТ, but by rules Ж can only be combined with И and almost never with Ы. So using Ы is relatively rare in writing but very common sound in speaking.

Fun fact: Centuries ago the ñ was written “nn” but then we started writing an n in the top of the other and it finally evolved to ñ. You can also find the ñ sound in Portuguese and Galician like “nh” in Italian like “gn” and in Catalonian like “ny”.

0:36 The G in dutch 0:57 The Ш and Щ 1:18 The ඞ in Sinhalese 1:35 The Turkish ı 1:54 The Polish ł 2:16 The Ñ in Spanish 2:45 The greek Ψ 3:08 The R in Portuguese 3:35 The Russian Д 3:56 The "can't find that" and "can't find that" 4:12 The Berber K 4:33 The German ß 4:52 The Qaf/ق in Arabic 5:17 The Chinese "can't find that" 5;45 The danish D 6;06 The Icelandic thorn 6:33 The multicular O 6:54 The Russian Ь 7:23 The Ain/Ayn/ع in Arabic 7:57 The Ы in Russian 8;17 The end

i like how he personally goes out of his way to use the wrong, but technically true flag for each language.

As a japanese learner, I can confirm that the two japanese letters are katakana for tsu and shi, respectively.

The polish 'ł' used to sound diffrent, it was like russian 'Л' (or dark 'l', Poles call it Scenic or Eastern 'l') but since it was to hard to spell for peasents (yes, really) it morphed to something like English 'w'.

imagine when bro learns about the hungarian letter 'dzs'

3:51 Learning Katakana got really fun with these two, being Tsu (ツ) and Shi (シ) They look practically identical, which is great because they're Hiragana forms (つ and し respectively) are very distinguishable. Why is this a thing. There are a lot weird things like that, like how Sa and Ki (さ and き) look basically the same as well but are very different

1:18 among us

amazigh here, 4:28. i was literally caught by surprise when this was mentioned, amazigh letters are very unique and cool looking

As a polish person, the Ł letter is no for me weird, Łódź is a city in Poland and łódź means boat. This language is very hard for other countries, beacause the ł and Ł means another the Łódź is a city/own name - nazwa własna and the łódź (ł) is because its not own name/nazwą własną.

About the ß, this is actually extremely interesting: The only easy part about German is its spelling. You say what you read and you write what you hear. There are some rules, notably: 1. A double consonant (same consonant written twice) makes the preceding vowel short. 2. An s written on its own is a voiced ("soft") s, like in English "hazard" [z], a double ss makes a voiceles ("hard") s, like in English "pasta" [s]. Now, you can maybe already see a problem: what if you want to write a word with a long vowel, but with a sharp s afterwards? For a long vowel, you'd write only one s afterwards, but for a sharp s, you need two. So this is how this wonderful character was born: it makes the sharp s sound, but counts as only one letter, allowing the preceding vowel to become long. Example: Masse (the mass), short a, sharp s [masə]. Maße (the measures), long a, sharp s [maːsə]. Historic trivia: Historically, people avoided the problem by writing sz (no double s, so allows for long vowel, but indicates sharp s sound). This is why it's called "esszett" (s z, literally). The historic s shape was like an f without the crossbar, if you combine that with a z, you get the historically accurate ß shape, nowadays we usually refer to the combination of the long s and an s. Even more trivia: a few years ago, a wonderful NEW LETTER was introduced to German spelling: the capital ß: ẞ. For a long time, people argued this was not necessary, as an ß only ever occurs in the middle of words, never at the beginning, and is thus never written in capital form. But if you write a word in all caps, like STRAẞE (street), you need a capital shape. This is why it was introduced in 2016.

As a Marsian, I can completely agree that these languages are very simple and easy to learn. Our Marsian language is much more complicated... Have you seen the Venusians? Their language is just VERY hard.

3:33 omg d is such a cool letter i definitely dont use it everyday

The smile facing flat makes sound shu and the up smile makes the tsu sound

6:46 Yꙮ, That's cꙮꙮl

7:57 even in his fantasies he doesn't touch any woman, his commitment is amazing

We call them characters rather than letters because most of them are words in and of themselves, but can be combined with others to make more words. Also we have some that are just to represent a sound. Oh and the biang character is so complex that it cannot even be supported by unicode.

The Med coast of North Africa has PLENTY of rain. Only a few hundred kilometers south of coast does desert take over.

YOUR RЫSSIAN IS GETTING MUCH MORE BETTER! NЫCE ЫNGLISH BTW

6:07 i love þe letter þat i will use it so many times,like þis letter looks so cool!

Fun fact the Soft and Hard signs in Kazakh sound different O O U

As a polish person we understand that the "Łł" is confusing but to remember how to pronounce it is like a soft "W"

As native Russian speaker have to admit you nailed the letters Ш and Щ 👏 And Ы is definitely the hardest sound in Russian. And as a person who lives now in Netherlands and learns Dutch I can say that Dutch G is very funny and sounds so soft, I just looove it.

2:14 I love being Spanish (well, an bolivian Spanish speaker)

Bulgarians invented the Cyrillic Alphabet, so ш and щ are Bulgarian. Specifically Щ is ONLY in Bulgaria 🇧🇬. Also Щ makes Sht sound.

As a Arabic and Russian speaker the letters are so damn awesome cuz of the pronunciation, knowing these two languages I can pronounce any letter in the galaxy but ы and ح hit different

I'm Russian learning arabic and wanted to say that Russian letter "ы" is a similar sound to Arabic "i" after emphatic Arabic letters like ط لطيفة for example

"sussy imposter" 💀

Sometimes - but only sometimes - I'd wish the thing at the Babel constructionside wouldn't have happened...😂🤣😅😁

I þink it's a great idea to reintroduce Þorn into American! It's boþ cool looking and practical, since you can save a lot of letters when typing. Þanks for reminding me of it, I'm going to use it from now on, maybe it'll catch on.

You should've also included the Czech Ř, it makes a sound that is like a mix between a trilled R and J in French, and it's sort of like what Ñ is to Spanish; being a unique letter to the Czech language.

The ß in German is acctualy a double s. We say it as "scharfe S" and that means "sharp s". I also wonder what the difference is, because it can sound different. Oh yeah, btw the st in Straße sounds like a scht because theres is a T after s. Its the same with p =schp in Spinne and sch is well sch in Schule.

The Slovian Æ and Þ Ash makes a Uh sound(Russian ЬI) Thorn makes a W sound

(2:10) The Polish Ł was used for a variant of the L sound, a "dark L", a velarised L, which in IPA is ɫ, which is a lowercase L with a tilde across. But the sound has shifted to what in IPA now is w, which is the same sound as the English W. But Ł is still related to L, like how "mały" inflects to "mali", so having it still be Ł and not W helps, especially since Polish already uses W for what in IPA is v, the same sound as English V. I do still think that, for when Polish words are imported to English, all Ł should be replaced with W. That is if you're not going to write the line across. For example the word "złoty" (the currency) would be written in English as "zwoty" not "zloty".

8:13 Was unexpected

þese are some pretty interesting letters. þank you for making þis video!

Woah. I know I'm a year late, but poland literally put a line through an L and turned it into a W. That's sick

As a spaniard and a geographer,the Equatorial Guinea flag in the ñ made me chuckle

Please never stop making these videos. I’m so happy whenever you put one out.

_Tōngyòng Guīfàn Hànzì Biǎo_ is the current standard list containing just over 8,000 _Hanzi_ Chinese characters & it's not at al like the alphabet belonging to Europe or Canada or the United States etc. Chinese does not have a phonetic or syllabic writing system. The Chinese also invented the typewriter

5:49 danish sounds like trying to say something but your vocal cords and your tongue are missing

The history of ñ becoming a letter of her own right is pretty interesting, actually. Most romance languages represent the ñ sound with a digraph (two letters together that make a sound they wouldn't do on their own) Portuguese has "nh" Catalan has "ny" Italian and French have "gn" (see the trend here?) Well, guess what Spanish used to have... It was "nn" Now then how do we go from a double n to a n with a caterpillar on it? Saving ink. Writers would use the ~ symbol to represent a letter that SHOULD be doubled, but it's not (you could see things like an R or an L with that thing on top). And so writers seemed to like the new "letter" they invented, and just kept it

So, the letter ツ and シ are sometimes confusing even for the Japanese people (including myself) Basically ツ makes "tsu" sound, as in tsunami シ makes “shi” sound, as in sheet The only way to distinguish them is to see if the 2 lines in the letters are kind of vertical or horizontal 😂😢 So… if someone sucks at writing them, there’s no way possible to see the difference but to see it by the context or something

4:53 it sounds like a gulp

I love it how he’s basically a full grown adult but uses gen z and gen alpha slang.

2:49 me when I see a cat:

The Russian "Ъ" is more strange than The Russian "Ь"

5:13.: This is a myth. This means ~«We hope that we will have a great harvest this year»

Love this video!!! As a German I'll say, and I trust this will remain between you and me, that my fellow Germans will claim that the ß is totally normal but we're of course lying. We use the ß for several somewhat nefarious reasons as I'm afraid I must admit. 1. It's to confuse foreigners! (No explanation needed.) 2. It's to identify moles who have no clue and think that the letter is actually a Greek beta (β) - a Teutonic shibboleth if you will. 3. It's to let us identify quickly that a text is in German. You'd think that we'd realize without it but have you seen these German monster words with 237 letters? Think we know what they mean? Don't be ridiculous. As a more serious outro I should give you some factual information about the ß being a ligature of a long s and a z and all that jazz but I see that you're a connoisseur of the unusual so I'll tell you the more fringe facts: When we learn the letters in primary school, the ß is often called Buckel-S (hunchbacked/crooked s) or Rucksack-S (that's the word I used when I was a wee lad back in 1887). It's also the only letter in the Teutonic Alfabet (an extended version of the American alphabet as I'm sure you're aware) that only exists in lower case because it never occurs as first letter. There is now a somewhat official upper case version for all-caps signs but quite frankly it's not much in use and at any rate it's just the lower case version that's been stretched with an image processing software you can buy on the cheap in Aldi.

2:00 as a person who used to live in Poland, I can confirm that I accidentaly ate it and now it doesn't exist

The most amazing piece of linguistic information I’ve picked up from this admittedly amusing video is that there exists such a thing as an “American” alphabet 😂

1:56 I'm polish and it's a prank

6:36 That thing looks like caviar or morula... I mean, wtf man

ツandシ are the Japanese characters for the sounds “tsu” and “shi” but this is just the katakana versions. The hiragana ones look like つandし (tsu and shi). For anyone till confused, hiragana and katakana are used very often in the same language along with kanji characters which are the big detailed symbols that are difficult to memorize. You can also have all three types in one sentence.

Actually, there is difference between "ш" and "щ". The letter "ш" makes the sound harder, and the letter "щ" makes the sound softer. Examples: shokolad (шоколад /chocolate) with "ш" and sh'avel' (щавель/sorrel) with "щ"