I like Hebrew Script more than Arabic Script

No, i don't want to offend anyone, i'm not saying that i support Israel or that Jewish culture is better, i actually don't care about politics and i'm not religious, That's just my opinion. You can like their language without liking the country.

I know some basic Arabic and i live in Egypt since February 2024. I learned about different writing systems and i love to learn them. The writing systems i know is Latin (obviously), Cyrillic, Greek, Korean, Arabic and finally Hebrew. I learnt about hebrew script (not the language itself) recently and i liked the letters design.

There are reasons why i like the hebrew script more, the first reason is the letter design, the hebrew ones are different from eachother making eachother unique while arabic some letters are almost the same for example Ba, Ta and Tha which they are drawn the same but with different dot position. The second reason is how is written, in Hebrew you write the letter straightforward unlike arabic that when you finish writing a word which is always cursive you have to go back to add the dots, hebrew has also kind of dots (nikkud) but they are not used in writing, it's only used by language learners.

There are some things which i like in Arabic more is the start-middle-end letters, in arabic each one has their own start, middle, end and isolated writing which makes the writing so elegant while in hebrew has only the normal and final form. It's not all letters, it's only 5 of them. Why these 5 seemingly random, specific letters has this and why is it necessary?

And finally a thing what i don't like in both scripts is that they are written right to left, it's because most people are right handed and when they write arabic or hebrew, they can't see what they wrote previously unlike left to right writings that when you write you can see it. So if you are born in the middle east as a left handed... you are lucky!

The conculsion is that i find all writing scripts beautiful, they are diverse, unique and has their own flaws.



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