Languages

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Identifying languages is one of the most pivotal steps in finding where you are. Luckily, you don't have to be able to read the language in order to identify the language.

Language Scripts and Families

The first step in recognizing a language is to identify the alphabet/script or family. Much of the world has a Latin script, but there are prominent countries with the Cyrillic, Arabic, and many others. Here are the scripts listed in terms popularity:

1. Latin
2. Chinese
3. Arabic
4. Devanagari
5. Bengali-Assamese
6. Cyrillic
7. Kana
8. Javanese

9. Hangul
10. Telugu
11. Tamil
12. Gujarati
13. Kannada
14. Burmese
15. Malayalam
16. Thai

17. Sudanese
18. Gurmukhi
19. Lao
20. Odia
21. Ge'ez
22. Sinhala
23. Hebrew
24. Armenian

25. Khmer
26. Greek
27. Lontara
28. Tibetan
29. Georgian
30. Modern Yi
31. Mongolian

Languages

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