The reason the Ł has a line through it is because they crossed it out, so you know it doesn't make an L sound. Really helps narrow it down.

As a russian: when you try to pronounce "Ь" your eye should slide to the left and not to the right. Slide to the right for pronouncing ""Ъ" sound

As an Egyptian, im happy you find Arabic such a beautiful language. Im also practicing to master speaking English! my accent sucks when it comes to talking with others, and im not the only one. since we don't have "p" in our language, the letter closest to it when it comes to pronunciation will be "ب", so when we say words like "party" we say it "barty" lmao

As to the Polish “Ł”, I think it’s a very nice expedient to preserve the etymology of a word while suggesting a different pronunciation. For example, French “chaud, haut, paume” would look much less alien to other Neo-Latin speakers if written with “ł”. Just look at their Italian counterparts: “caldo, alto, palmo”.

The devs should add these to the American alphabet!

for those who wonders, letters ь and ъ used to be vowels centuries ago. It wasn't allowed in old russian to use consonant without vowels surrounding them (just like in modern japanese).

Þis is very accurate, and my list. I often rewatch Þis video when I'm bored

Nahhh the ꙮ is a bunch of fish eggs 😂

It’s sad that Э didn’t make it to the list 😢

I like how he used the flag of Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 for Spanish, the flag of Mozambique 🇲🇿 for Portuguese, the flag of Belarus 🇧🇾, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 and the USSR for Russian and the flag of Austria 🇦🇹 for German.

As a turkish person, people uses ı so common. It’s for “Nasılsın” means how are you, “Iy” for the “Ew” thing that we use it for disgusted, like “Kırmızı” for red ec.

The fact that my name is MiaSolenn P. Requiño 😂 So for pronouncing it, Requiño = Rekinio.

“Uppercase B with a butthole makes the S sound” 😂😂 you’re creativity and humor is top tier

ツ Means tsu and シ means shi for anyone wondering (this is the katakana alphabet)

The last one: Not your sound, Not my sound, OUR SOUND

þese are some pretty interesting letters. þank you for making þis video!

5:44 That's what she-

Набор флагов, особенно с 1 местом меня убил😁😁

The Dutch G arleady SOUNDS BUTIFUL

3:33 omg d is such a cool letter i definitely dont use it everyday

I þink ðat ðis video was very well put togeðer and ðat Language Simp has made a perfectly unbiased list.

There's a fun fact about cyrillic "K" compared to latin "K". Typography wise they have different anatomies. And if you're creating a typeface, you could get into trouble with seasoned typographers for not knowing this : ) Also in handwriting a lot of cyrillic letters don't look like there machine typed versions. For example "д" can be written as "g" or a horizontally mirrored "6", and as a "D" when capitalised

6:07 i love þe letter þat i will use it so many times,like þis letter looks so cool!

The best thing is that he's still not getting Ы right. During his livestream, he managed to do it a couple of times

As a Sinhala speaker I commend you for giving ඩ the sussy recognition it deserves. Half of our abugida looks sus af

5:13 This letter looks like a Chinese final boss

Polish language also has this ñ letter (making the same nya sound), but we write it with a diagonal straight line instead of a curvy one, so it looks a bit more like an accent, but is also considered a separate letter in here. It looks like this: ń and is pretty fun imo

2:44 THANK YOU FOR USING Ψ IN THE VIDEO BECAUSE I'M GREEK ❤❤❤

2:08 as a pole i can confirm this is a massive practical joke created by us poles to see how hard we can confuse foreigners with our orthography

1:18 among us

imagine when bro learns about the hungarian letter 'dzs'

The smile facing flat makes sound shu and the up smile makes the tsu sound

i like how he personally goes out of his way to use the wrong, but technically true flag for each language.

6:30 ah yes, biblically accurate ō

I appreciate you putting all the flags up so I can follow along and make sense of everything…… 🤨

Sometimes - but only sometimes - I'd wish the thing at the Babel constructionside wouldn't have happened...😂🤣😅😁

As a German: ß is completely normal and the difference to ss is the length of the prior vowel In Massen has a short a and means in masses In Maßen has a long a and means in moderation And in Switzerland both are spelled the same In Massen trinken ;) As for s That is rarely actually an s It is more similair to the English z

0:52 Cool ш and щ! People often pronounce them alike, despite they (sounds, I mean) are quite different, but you did a really good job. And you made ь sound so well that you definetly will be one of the best in spelling ъ.

4:53 it sounds like a gulp

2:14 I love being Spanish (well, an bolivian Spanish speaker)

YOUR RЫSSIAN IS GETTING MUCH MORE BETTER! NЫCE ЫNGLISH BTW

If anyone is wondering what "シ" and "ツ" means in japanese katakana, it's basically Pronounced as "shi"(シ) like in 'shield' and "tsu"(ツ) like in "tsunami"(depending on your pronunciation to the word, the 't' part is pronounced a bit)

"pokeman" 😂😂😂

2:29 my little pony taught us about that cuz at the first time we see diamond tiara in season 1 she says seenyera (ceañera)

Speaking of Belarus, which official flag used in the video, we also have the nice letter "Ў" which pronounces exactly like the Polish "Ł" ;)

As a japanese learner, I can confirm that the two japanese letters are katakana for tsu and shi, respectively.

0:56 however as an Russian speaker(Not from Russia) the Ш is called esh and the other one is called esh Che for some reason

Hey dude just so you know, the character for 'biang biang noodles' is a bit different and the character you did show just makes the sound 'biang' which is the sound made while chewing the noodles this character does have a long history of it's foundation and how it was actually incorporated into computers because of its insane complexity.

Before the standardization of Basque orthography, ŕ and ĺ were proposed by Sabino Arana Goiri to respectively represent intervocalic [r] sound and [ʎ] sound. They didn't make it to the actual alphabet, but they would have been pretty cool imo

Ы - is actually as easy one, it substitutes И - the equivalent of I in English, but adds more "hardness". For instance, ЖИВОТ (belly) is actually pronounced as ЖЫВОТ, but by rules Ж can only be combined with И and almost never with Ы. So using Ы is relatively rare in writing but very common sound in speaking.

I love it how he’s basically a full grown adult but uses gen z and gen alpha slang.

6:46 Yꙮ, That's cꙮꙮl

The R in Portuguese is crazy because depending on where it is in the word AND depending on the accent of the person speaking it can represent basically all the sounds for R in European languages. In some places it’s even pronounced the English way.

ඞ looks more like imposter

I like how casually this guy said"this uppercase B with a butthole"

7:57 even in his fantasies he doesn't touch any woman, his commitment is amazing

Woah. I know I'm a year late, but poland literally put a line through an L and turned it into a W. That's sick

2:07 Prussia, Austria, and Russia: Say less

where is ﷽ on the list

As a Marsian, I can completely agree that these languages are very simple and easy to learn. Our Marsian language is much more complicated... Have you seen the Venusians? Their language is just VERY hard.

0:05 you didn't have to cut me off

4:03 => The left one is katakana for "tsu" and the right one katakana for "shi". "shitsu" gets the smile movin'!

I'm Russian learning arabic and wanted to say that Russian letter "ы" is a similar sound to Arabic "i" after emphatic Arabic letters like ط لطيفة for example

8:13 Was unexpected

4:29 It looks like a closed-off k to me.

6:23 this "th" sound letter is a gigachad man

As a polish person we understand that the "Łł" is confusing but to remember how to pronounce it is like a soft "W"

3:51 Learning Katakana got really fun with these two, being Tsu (ツ) and Shi (シ) They look practically identical, which is great because they're Hiragana forms (つ and し respectively) are very distinguishable. Why is this a thing. There are a lot weird things like that, like how Sa and Ki (さ and き) look basically the same as well but are very different

The Lapatatanese Ł makes the Tl sound

5:49 danish sounds like trying to say something but your vocal cords and your tongue are missing

I þink it's a great idea to reintroduce Þorn into American! It's boþ cool looking and practical, since you can save a lot of letters when typing. Þanks for reminding me of it, I'm going to use it from now on, maybe it'll catch on.

About the ß, this is actually extremely interesting: The only easy part about German is its spelling. You say what you read and you write what you hear. There are some rules, notably: 1. A double consonant (same consonant written twice) makes the preceding vowel short. 2. An s written on its own is a voiced ("soft") s, like in English "hazard" [z], a double ss makes a voiceles ("hard") s, like in English "pasta" [s]. Now, you can maybe already see a problem: what if you want to write a word with a long vowel, but with a sharp s afterwards? For a long vowel, you'd write only one s afterwards, but for a sharp s, you need two. So this is how this wonderful character was born: it makes the sharp s sound, but counts as only one letter, allowing the preceding vowel to become long. Example: Masse (the mass), short a, sharp s [masə]. Maße (the measures), long a, sharp s [maːsə]. Historic trivia: Historically, people avoided the problem by writing sz (no double s, so allows for long vowel, but indicates sharp s sound). This is why it's called "esszett" (s z, literally). The historic s shape was like an f without the crossbar, if you combine that with a z, you get the historically accurate ß shape, nowadays we usually refer to the combination of the long s and an s. Even more trivia: a few years ago, a wonderful NEW LETTER was introduced to German spelling: the capital ß: ẞ. For a long time, people argued this was not necessary, as an ß only ever occurs in the middle of words, never at the beginning, and is thus never written in capital form. But if you write a word in all caps, like STRAẞE (street), you need a capital shape. This is why it was introduced in 2016.

3:53 ツ is Tsu and シ is Shi. Also, it’s Katakana.

0:19 that simbol actaully scared me when I was 3

2:49 me when I see a cat:

As a Arabic and Russian speaker the letters are so damn awesome cuz of the pronunciation, knowing these two languages I can pronounce any letter in the galaxy but ы and ح hit different

"the dutch g makes the *HEUAGHH* 🦆*GUUEGHHH* 🦆*HEUEUUGUGHHH* 🦆*EUGHH* osund"

The most amazing piece of linguistic information I’ve picked up from this admittedly amusing video is that there exists such a thing as an “American” alphabet 😂

You should've also included the Czech Ř, it makes a sound that is like a mix between a trilled R and J in French, and it's sort of like what Ñ is to Spanish; being a unique letter to the Czech language.

Please never stop making these videos. I’m so happy whenever you put one out.

1:18 ඩා sus

The Med coast of North Africa has PLENTY of rain. Only a few hundred kilometers south of coast does desert take over.

As native Russian speaker have to admit you nailed the letters Ш and Щ 👏 And Ы is definitely the hardest sound in Russian. And as a person who lives now in Netherlands and learns Dutch I can say that Dutch G is very funny and sounds so soft, I just looove it.

As a spaniard and a geographer,the Equatorial Guinea flag in the ñ made me chuckle

Fun fact: Centuries ago the ñ was written “nn” but then we started writing an n in the top of the other and it finally evolved to ñ. You can also find the ñ sound in Portuguese and Galician like “nh” in Italian like “gn” and in Catalonian like “ny”.

4:25 wow thats an amazing alphabet

8:00 OUR flag

The Russian "Ъ" is more strange than The Russian "Ь"

0:35 I almost had a stroke saying the Dutch G

The Japanese letters are katakana And they mean "tsu" and "shi"

(2:10) The Polish Ł was used for a variant of the L sound, a "dark L", a velarised L, which in IPA is ɫ, which is a lowercase L with a tilde across. But the sound has shifted to what in IPA now is w, which is the same sound as the English W. But Ł is still related to L, like how "mały" inflects to "mali", so having it still be Ł and not W helps, especially since Polish already uses W for what in IPA is v, the same sound as English V. I do still think that, for when Polish words are imported to English, all Ł should be replaced with W. That is if you're not going to write the line across. For example the word "złoty" (the currency) would be written in English as "zwoty" not "zloty".

I like how he uses Kazakhstani flag for Russian , ahaha. Greetings from Kazakhstan =)

NUMBER 18 LOOKS LIKE AMOGUS

I remember learning Spanish and my Spanish teacher told us the history of the letter "ñ". Basically early Spanish monks were copying literature and many words that had the nya sound were written with "nn". So the Spanish word for canyon, cañón, would have been spelled cannón. Monks were short on paper so they had to shorten many words. So the "nn" was shrunk down to "ñ".

1:56 finally you pronounced Łódź correctly!

I’ve actually been saying we should have a character for (th) glad to know at least the Icelandic agree with me

4:54 P A L E S T I N E

Honorable mention:the Abkhaz Y Letter evolution Fisheye(4000 BC) Theta(1000 BC) Abkhaz Y(300 AD) Q(600 AD) Fen TV logo(2004-12)

Love this video!!! As a German I'll say, and I trust this will remain between you and me, that my fellow Germans will claim that the ß is totally normal but we're of course lying. We use the ß for several somewhat nefarious reasons as I'm afraid I must admit. 1. It's to confuse foreigners! (No explanation needed.) 2. It's to identify moles who have no clue and think that the letter is actually a Greek beta (β) - a Teutonic shibboleth if you will. 3. It's to let us identify quickly that a text is in German. You'd think that we'd realize without it but have you seen these German monster words with 237 letters? Think we know what they mean? Don't be ridiculous. As a more serious outro I should give you some factual information about the ß being a ligature of a long s and a z and all that jazz but I see that you're a connoisseur of the unusual so I'll tell you the more fringe facts: When we learn the letters in primary school, the ß is often called Buckel-S (hunchbacked/crooked s) or Rucksack-S (that's the word I used when I was a wee lad back in 1887). It's also the only letter in the Teutonic Alfabet (an extended version of the American alphabet as I'm sure you're aware) that only exists in lower case because it never occurs as first letter. There is now a somewhat official upper case version for all-caps signs but quite frankly it's not much in use and at any rate it's just the lower case version that's been stretched with an image processing software you can buy on the cheap in Aldi.

Þat was certainly an interesting video! Þese letters are insane! Would love to see more videos of þhis kind!