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Every writing system, on the table

Letters are not sounds — they are each culture's compression scheme for sound (or, in Chinese, for meaning). Here is each system laid out in full: every sign, its IPA value linked into the shared sound registry, the combinations it loves, and the ones it forbids.

Latin · A B C …

The 26 letters six of our languages share — and the least honest alphabet on this site: the same letter can mean utterly different sounds per language (j = English /d͡ʒ/, French /ʒ/, Spanish /x/, German /j/; c, g, r, u all shift).

26 signs · left → right · English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Malay

Greek · ελληνικό αλφάβητο

24 letters, and you half-know them already from maths and physics — the trap is that MODERN Greek reads differently from the classroom values: β is v (not b), η υ ι all say /i/, δ is th-in-this, γ is a soft gargle.

24 signs · left → right

Georgian (Mkhedruli) · ქართული ანბანი

33 letters, 33 sounds, no capitals, nothing silent.

33 signs · left → right · Georgian

Arabic · الأبجدية العربية

28 letters, written right to left, always cursive — there is no 'print' vs 'handwriting': letters CONNECT, and each has up to four shapes depending on position (alone, initial, medial, final).

28 signs · right → left

Chinese keys (214 radicals) · 部首

Chinese is not written with an alphabet: each character is a picture-built sign, and the 214 keys (radicals, 部首) are the parts it is built FROM.

214 signs · left → right · Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese

Sample

The same first line, five scripts:

LatinLearn the language. All of it. At once.
GreekΜάθε τη γλώσσα. Όλη. Μονομιάς.
Georgianისწავლე ენა. მთლიანად. ერთბაშად.
Arabicتعلّم اللغة. كلّها. دفعة واحدة.
Chinese学语言。全部。一次学会。