estutweh@aussie.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agoDo languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?message-squaremessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareDo languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?estutweh@aussie.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square12linkfedilink
minus-squareccunning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoThai does not have upper case letters. It does have a character that essentially means duplicate the previous word which is a common way to pluralize or emphasize: Child = เด็ก “dèk” Children = เด็กเด็ก or เด็กๆ “dèkdèk” Pretty = งาม “ngaam” Pretty! = งามงาม or งามๆ “ngaamngaam”
Thai does not have upper case letters.
It does have a character that essentially means duplicate the previous word which is a common way to pluralize or emphasize:
Child = เด็ก “dèk”
Children = เด็กเด็ก or เด็กๆ “dèkdèk”
Pretty = งาม “ngaam”
Pretty! = งามงาม or งามๆ “ngaamngaam”