The subtitles are hard-coded on a DVD. I'm guessing this is Japanese, or less likely, Korean. Does anybody recognize this alphabet?
Thanks!
What language is this?
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The subtitles are hard-coded on a DVD. I'm guessing this is Japanese, or less likely, Korean. Does anybody recognize this alphabet?
Thanks!
Japanese. Korean looks very different. It doesn't seem to be Chinese or Korean characters as there is some Kana in there and that looks distinctive also.
I could be wrong but if I were a gambling man, I'd put money on it.
Why can't people just use Klingon. It was good enough for Shakespeare.
I have no idea what the Korean alphabet looks like. I know it's not Chinese or Tagalog, (Philipino). Japanese would make sense; it's from a DVD release of Walt Disney's Song of the South, sourced from VHS. Disney claims that they never released this for home video, but that's not true.
They've locked it away and won't distribute it anymore, but you can find copies still.
Oh, and I am seconding Japanese because I see の in there and that's usually a give away. (I'm sure there are exceptions I don't know about it, but I think it's pretty common in Japanese writing.)
Not that you really asked but...
Hangul is actually pretty distinctive. 한글
Korean Hanja which has fallen out of favor, Chinese Hanzi [Simplified or traditional] and Japanese Kanji look similar and at least among the basic 2200 the Japanese teach in schools about 60% are the same, lots of overlap. There are more than 2200 Kanji, they have tests for up to 6000 but almost nobody can actually pass them.
Japanese has 2 phonetic alphabets Hiragana and Katakana which look foriegn to us but are pretty distinctive from the various character sets.
Unlike the Chinese which are pretty much all character all the time, the Japanese use a more limited set, often the characters have different meanings which they use kana to differentiate and in cases where the Kanji isn't well know they can use one of the kana sets for the full word.
Hangul is pretty rational and easy to learn they say. If you ever want to like la vida character, the books Remembering the Kanji and Remembering the Hanzi plus the ANKI spaced repetition app is the way to go. I almost finished the Kanji one. I also bought but never got to the remembering the kana books.
That, that prezel is pretty iconic, that and girls doing tankery and half naked fat guys slamming into each other.
