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European Day of Languages – The word GOOD

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The word GOOD written in different alphabets → written in a real language that uses it, with the meaning "good" and transcription

🔠 Alphabets

  • Cyrillic (Bulgarian): good → good ("good")
  • Latin (English): good → ɡʊd
  • Greek alphabet (Greek): good → kalo ("good")
  • Armenian alphabet (Armenian): good → lion ("good")
  • Georgian alphabet (Georgian): Good → k'argi ("good")

European Day of Languages – ALPHABETS AROUND THE WORLD

🔤 Abjadi (consonant scripts)

  • Arabic alphabet (Arabic): Good → good ("good, prosperity")
  • Hebrew (Hebrew): Good → tov ("good")

🔡 Abugida

  • Devanagari (Hindi): Good → achchhā ("good, nice")
  • Ethiopian (Amharic): Good → t'iru ("good, nice")

🈶 Logographic and syllabic

  • Chinese (Mandarin): 好 → hao ("good")
  • Japanese (kanji): 善 → Zen ("good, virtue")
  • Japanese (hiragana – loanword “good”): どぶろ → doburo (phonetic loanword)
  • Korean (Hangul): it's nice → joh-ta ("good")