#1 wrote:
> When I look arabic, chinese (or Japanese, for someone who don't know these
> it's the same),

Japanses actually uses three distinct nonalphabetic systems*: kanji
(Chinese characters), and katakana and hiragana (both syllabic).
These latter two are not used by non-Japanese at all, and since the
Communists reformed the characters, these have not been the same
as those in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.

*(Though I once saw a Japanese grammar of Ancient Greek, which was
a fascinating mixture of scripts, since it also included
Roman and Cyrillic comparanda.)

> Thai, cyrilic, mongolian(I like that one), it seems so
> beautiful even the latin alphabet seems beautiful when it's well written

IMHO, the most beautiful script is Tengwar; second thereto being only
Georgian mkhedruli. I don't know where Tolkien got his inspiration, but
there are eery resemblances in shape and sometimes in value to mkhedruli:
Sindarin <s> is almost identical to mkhedruli _sani_, and the whole feel
of the alphabet is similar.

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