Comment on Is it hard for native speakers of languages that use 漢字 to learn ABC as it's different to their own?
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 1 week ago
Writing system has nothing to do with grammar, and languages are not "based on" writing systems. Languages are systems of sounds which encode meaning. Writing systems are met visual representations of those sounds
For example, Persian is written with the same alphabet as Arabic, but its grammar is more similar to that of Hindi, which is written with an entirely different system. Arabic, meanwhile, is more closely related to Hebrew, which has yet another writing system.
Languages can be written with multiple systems, such as Hindustani, Mongolian, Romanian, and K'iche. Languages have switched from one writing system to another, such as Persian, Turkish, and Scandinavian. Notably, Korean and Vietnamese both switched from Chinese characters to alphabets. Vietnamese uses the same writing system as French, but their grammars and sounds are very different.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
Grammar is probably the wrong word, but it seems like the question is about word identification, which relates to how spoken and written language interacts.
For instance, a local dialect may choose a different set of sounds for a word but maintain the same logogram as other dialects, so there is greater mutual intelligibly across the written language over the spoken language. In contrast, an alphabet written language encodes the sounds into the written text, so the written word looks different across different dialects reflecting the spoken language.