When you come across text you can't read, can you at least identify the language? Maybe sometimes? In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you'll be given characters from languages not easily typed on your keyboard, and you match it to the language. It's not easy -I only got three right. Surely you can beat that! Link
When you come across text you can't read, can you at least identify the language? Maybe sometimes? In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you'll be given characters from languages not easily typed on your keyboard, and you match it to the language. It's not easy -I only got three right. Surely you can beat that! Link
Having ancestry of two of the languages helps. To be pedantic though, Yiddish is written in Hebrew, but Hebrew isn't Yiddish. Japanese Kanji are somewhat simplified Chinese characters, (not to be confused with simplified Chinese, but I think Ai is written the same way in Chinese anyway. Kanji just means Han writing.)
Ukrainian is Cyrillic, with slight differences from Russian.
There are several ancient Egyptian scripts, but one is similar to ancient phoenician/hebrew.
Farsi uses arabic script. Only one candidate there.
Yiddish is germanic/slavic in hebrew characters
Japanese Kanji is similar to Chinese
Korean: Used to work in Flushing, Queens, where most of the store signs are in Korean.
Scandanavian Fehe is a variety of Runic. Fehe, like "alphabet", comes from the name of the first two runes.
I'm familiar with the appearance of Sanskit and Thai, so the last was just process of elimination.