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What is your favorite writing system in terms of aesthetics ? and which one you think would be the best for practical purposes ?
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the Thaana abjad of the Maldives, interesting how they took the arabic script and eastern arabic numerals and mixed them into their own abjad
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>>18579510
>What is your favorite writing system in terms of aesthetics ?
I take a liking towards the Phoenician alphabet. It is simultaneously familiar due to its ancestral relation to the Latin alphabet and distinct

>and which one you think would be the best for practical purposes ?
The Latin alphabet due to its wide adoption and versatility in transliterating other languages
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Gaelic variant of Latin script.
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>>18579545
Here's a pic of a font that was more commonly used in the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s when Irish text was almost always set in Gaelic type.
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>>18579510
Latin for both (gothic specifically in terms of aesthetics)
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The way Chinese doing calculus before introducing Arabic numbers is weirdly satisfying
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>>18579510
ogham
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In terms of aesthetics I gotta give it to either Sanskrit or Arabic. These languages were pretty much designed to look aesthetically pleasing



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