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RE: Day 2: Korean 한국, the most beautiful language in the World
Excellent post! I had no idea about the characters and how they relate to parts of our body that make the sounds. Really interesting. Also makes me wonder how much language shapes our thinking which shapes our actions.
Many Italian words are onomatopeic, for example terremoto (hearthquake), liscio (smooth), fruscìo (swish) ... In Chinese, the Kanji represent the meaning with images:
it's so cool how languages are somehow self descriptive, it'd be interesting to train a natural language AI, teaching "her" about the evolution of all languages and how words and meaning changed over time, and then fast forward to 200 years from now and see if a new Esperanto like language will become the language spoken by everyone.
Another interesting fact, dialects are disappearing, because used in smaller and more ignorant groups (small town inside the land in Italy, Greece and other Country for example), but recently in Sicily we started to reintroduce the regional dialect back in school, because we started to realize that is part of our culture and identity, as there are world that are crafted for the every day life specific to us, there are word that can't be translated directly, e.g. tumpulata is a specific type of face slap that grandma give to the kids (luckily this word is used mostly in funny contexts).