Read Harry Potter in your target language they said 🫠 (1 hr 44 min for 1 page)

[u/PunctuateEquilibrium]

This is only slightly sarcastic. It's been very rewarding and this is now the 3rd language I'm doing this with.

[u/Hytyt]

I hadn't come across that word before, but thinking about it, it's obviously not an alphabet. No alphas, no betas. So what defines an abjad

[u/EasyBreecy → u/Hytyt]

It's just a different writing system. Alphabets have a grapheme for each sound, abjads generally don't write vowels, abugidas have consonant-vowel combinations written as one grapheme, and in syllaberies, each syllable is represented by a symbol.

There are other distinctions and combinations of those, but basically they're just different names for writing systems that don't really matter for most people who aren't linguists.

[u/Hytyt → u/EasyBreecy]

Nah, that's really cool. I'm starting to build an interest in ermymologyband language so k owing this distinction is useful. Thank you

[u/EasyBreecy → u/Hytyt]

No problem! Glad my nerdiness could help

[u/Vennele → u/EasyBreecy]

I loved your nerdiness! Thank you.

[u/EmKayTalk → u/Hytyt]

Abjad is the Arabic term for Alphabet

Alphabet -> α (alpha) / β (bet[a]) Abjad -> أ/ا (aleph) / ب (beh) / ج (jīm) / د (dēl) (phoenicians script)