Signese The Public Face of 汉字

September 29, 2005

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Filed under: Signese — Roddy @ 1:55 pm

Thanks to Wix

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  1. * I wonder if anyone can guess the three languages on the sign (obviously one is very easy) and where the picture was taken.
    wix @ 2005-09-29 14:14:45
    * My guess is Chinese, Hindi, and Arabic.
    Julie @ 2005-09-29 14:56:37
    * Julie, you got and a half out of three. The languages are Chinese, Thai and Yawi. Yawi is a dialect of Malay spoken in the far south of Thailand. It is written using the Arabic script. The photo was taken in Narathiwat, a province of Thailand on the border with Malaysia.
    wix @ 2005-09-30 13:39:17

    Comment by Roddy — December 8, 2006 @ 4:32 pm

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