The Global Alphabet | Yuliana Gorkorov | TEDxBerlin
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Visit our website www.tedxberlin.de for more information on Yuliana Gorkorov. Yuliana Gorkorov, M.A., is a multilingual communication designer, graduate of the Folkwang University of the Arts (2017). Her knowledge of the Hebrew, Cyrillic, Latin and Arabic alphabets drove her to create the award winning «Global Alphabet» project. Within the project she designed fonts that unite these alphabets in different ways, making them simultaneously readable to people from different cultures. She presents the project in exhibitions and lectures around the world, giving a new perspective on letters that we use every day. Yuliana worked for several years as a graduate assistant at the Institute for Lifelong Learning of the Folkwang University. Currently she is working as an independent designer focusing on projects in the field of type design and the history of writing.
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Linguistically speaking, there is actually the hypothesis that languages are getting closer to each other and that probably in 1000 years there will be just a few languages left. Well, this video explains that concept in a very practical and realistic way, thank you for sharing!
@The Rockall Times I believe you! Some modest linguistic scientists say in 1000 years there will be only 2 or 3 languages which if we were taken in a time machine we wouldn't understand those 2 or 3 languages. I also agree with you, taking 2 factors as an example: IT and the speed of the consolidation of globalization.
Idea of unifying alphabets for different languages is not so good as one may think . Alphabet by its nature represent sounds of given language . How can unified alphabet represent the sound / ʃ / ? In Serbo-Croatian it is a letter š . All right we make new gliph ( Or , which is more ridiculous an emoji ) . An IPA consists of 107 letters, 52 diacritics, and 4 prosodic marks . And it is already an International Phonetic alphabet . You can say that we can do - graphs ( Combinations of letters usually two or three , but can be up to five or six to represent a single sound ) , as in German 'Sch' , but - it is a writing system . And if would constraint every language to a set of say 30 letters , the languages with unique sounds not truly represented by this alphabet will have to transform into awkward di - , tri - and so on graphs . Idea with basically emojis is ridiculous for reason of writing . How can you write down on paper Flower or Internet and be efficient in it . And yes - we will still use writing on physical surfaces at least in emergencies and formalities . So , writers would develop their own ways of writing down characters , maybe simplifying them . . . and we get Chinese hieroglyphs and Egyptian writing . You cannot have a single writing system on Earth without a single language .
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Why Greece though?
good luck doing that with Chinese.
Bellin
柏林
ㄅㄛˊ ㄌㄧㄣˊ bolin Yes it is possible do that if we stand only on Zhuyin Fuhao phonetic alphabet.
Hut, gate, sun
and Japanese
Seeing this for the 20th time, I still get inspired by this woman and her vision. Wow. Do not stop.
It'll have to be phonetic. For Russian and Hebrew it's not a huge problem, don't know about Arabic, but for English... You'll have to spell "christmas" like "krismas", and it's not the worst example -- yeah, I'm looking at you, "tough", "queue" and "colonel". And the French would just freak out, you know...
And what about not international sounds? Like th, g, ы?
(And it's actually not "christmas" in Russian and I really doubt about Hebrew, so... not that international of a word.)
The idea is really great though.
I love this! Thank you for creating this!
I would take her class in a heartbeat.
BRILLIANT!!!
Beautiful redirect.
PURE Genius!!!
👍👍
this is genius. i want to use the font immediately.
Amazing mind! You should explain this in every country! And write few books about it! Anyway such a beautiful way to talk to each other
I knew someone in high school who liked to write her notes using Hangul, the Korean writing system. This was a white girl. She particularly liked writing Spanish in Korean characters.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) = The Global Alphabet
@The Rockall Times Funny because not everyone understand english
@The Rockall Times Asians, Arabs and Jews: "Are we a joke to you?"
Unity is simple. Just think simple.
Well, still one problem though, writing those letters would be difficult and time-consuming, unless we are using a keyboard to type.
A great topic should everyone know.
Emojinius!
that was really nice, and it must toke you a lot of time.
thanks for sharing it!
Took * sorry just had to say as I use to write toke as well lol
@@jestnutz i never noticed that!! Thanks!!!!
Well said.
Interesting! Thank you
Best video after a long time thank you for listening to make good content
Latin alphabet - best alphabet
You can write any word from a different language in the Latin alphabet
No, you can't 😁
@@Alatania Yes, you can
Example - Bengali
"shop" in bengali is "দোকান"
BUT you can write it in latin "Dōkāna"
I really liked it 👍🏻
Loved this presentation. I hope I'll live long enough to see most of the world using one common language
It is already using a common language-English.
A great idea. The acrophony approach makes amazing sense in the proto Canaanite, as the word names the symbols, and sounds all correspond. Not more "A is for Apple disassociative barriers. Aleph is aleph is the very sound you say in aleph. And the picture of the ox matches. Sad we abstracted away from this elegant system in the west. I would like to see how thus applies to non-familial language merges, but the fresh start principle she used could work, albeit you need truly international symbols, as simple and universal as the house of the Beit, or Ox of Aleph. Avocado is not ubiquitous nor is USB. Otherwise, wonderful ideas. I simply suggest this refinement.
its easy, whonever creates the language has to find a word that correspond to a thing in every language, problem solved, the creator of the language does the work so we all can read it the first time, brillant idea for a globalized world.
Nice 👍
There
That's a interesting concept and learn how know about anything
Brilliant!
The idea is fantastic but I really couldn't see the similarities 😥🙁🙈
You just opened my eyes with those pictures used as letters. THE LETTERS ARE ALSO PICTURES
I'm an Aussie. I know what a boomerang is! I have no idea what the flower is though. Besides, Star Trek icons would have been much more fun. Her thesis must have been awesome...she handed in the emoji movie!
I wonder if you could show some more examples of words.
Going back to the roots truly. This is how the language was in egyptian times - remember hieroglyphics!
I didn't realize how engrossed in it I was untill it was over. Nothing has held that much of my attention for that long since puberty
Interesting, but I don't think it'll ever catch on.
it will
@The Rockall Times the world is changing.
Wow very nice
This girl must have a lot of spare time
Girl that's what her degree is about, communication design. It's a visionary research not just a game you do when you're bored. She also probably makes money out of it.
@@Mil21M Eachto their own I guess. I find lauguage and communication fascinating but wouldn't want to have it as a main specialist subject cos I want to learn so much more about everything. I would feel limited . Kool tho
In my first language Berlin is ベルリン
Natalia D. *berurinn
Amazing perspective
Why is this so fascinating! 🧐
@The Rockall Times yes like meaning remains constant yet many versions of the same thing look different.... I feel like Pandora's box is about to open got to stop thinking aboutits
THIS IS SIMPLY AMAZING
I'M SPEECHLESS
Fantastic. Greetings from Bolivia
That was so great, that is inventor coach 😊😊
the concept is good, but we cant do it with every languages
This was beautiful.
👍
awesome
There's already an international alphabet/ language. It's called English.
The empire reaches far
Заткнись американец
@The Rockall Times it most likely says death to America 🙄
And that's how most English speaking countries (that have that as first language) are not learning any other language because all they think is that they can do anything in other countries just knowing English. Doing that, other countries are starting to despise those countries (especially US)
@@mysterious_4053 yep it's been going on for awhile now
Wow..!!
Eh, no.
It feels like we’re going backwards here-back to Egyptian hieroglyphs.. & this is not progress, in my opinion.
I was really interested in the concept until she went to, essentially, emojis.
When you don't know how to say a word or something (as a house) in other language you can draw and point it. The idea behind this is to use figures recognizable in all world, because the word is exactly or closelly the same.
@@HhmmmCacoDeVridoNhamNhamAmasso there were plenty of pictures in the example emoji alphabet that I didn't understand. to think that people from all parts of the world will interpret them in the same way and that all those cultures call those pictures the same thing is laughable. please tell me what the two characters after yoga were or the last one that looked like a chihuahua? or the flower that is supposed to be an N? you think everyone in the world will know what that is? not to mention that if you need to communicate something to someone and there is a language barrier, drawing all those characters is time consuming and frustrating. people will end up simplifying the characters into stick figures which will just turn into new alphabet characters creating a written language which will have to be taught to children, just like the present day alphabet our respective cultures use today. If you want a common language for the world... just pick one and teach it to everyone. Game of thrones " common tongue" style.
Franz Borow future search
If you have dyslexia you know you are already gifted. Lol
The picture based approach helps dyslexia by removing a layer of abstraction. No wondering if you're seeing p, b, d, or q because beit, quph etc are distinct and omni directional as discrete entities eith concrete names and meanings to associate. It is out phonetic abstractions that are poorly done, nothing wrong for those who see letters as pictures, aka "dys"lexia. It is out lexia that is dys. It's be nice to fix it, no?
@@artworksenvisioneering2167 It surely will be! I just saw this comment after 7 months, I apologize for replying this late. Nevertheless, that is an astounding explanation of dyslexia. Good work indeed!
I love This! A global alphabet in icons 😊. Very interesting and forward thinking 👍👍👏.
That is brilliant. Some day they will find these images on scroll or on a wall and think we were primitive people's just drawing basic pictures with no language. 😉.
Watcher 693 Her ideas may be the thing needed to decipher ancient hieroglyphs and/or marks believed to be alien technology.
Unfortunately not so many nations are willing to unite... and to think they live under the impression that their discrimination comes from a noble cause... and that they stand for spiritual evolution!!!
Good😍💙💙
I fell in love with this lady .her voice is divine!
isnt “i” a vowel in the word berlin as well?
So sweet voice
This is interesting😜.
OMi Hero
She is so beautiful
@The Rockall Times as u see
Wow weee your amazing presenter is in fact quite Genius thank you
up
to handwrite you need to have art skill and a set of felt pens
Brilliant explanations !
Wish you luck for Hindi.
Поработаем над акцентом)))
WOW
Blood flows from my ears of this accent
Ansioso de fato me encontro 🤔
I feel like I’m the only 16yr old watching Ted talks for fun....
Use Hangle!
יופי של הרצאה
how about using Phoenician alphabet? all languages used their invention well, except for the far east.
@The Rockall Times cuneiform is different system of writing. "English" is just Phoenician with different symbols.
@The Rockall Times when did I mention Roman alphabet? the speaker proposed an emoji alphabet to which I said why not use the original alphabet of the Phoenician. and you seem to be incapable of understanding simple straightforward thoughts. they seem so challenging to you that you think only geeks can use simple logical communication.
r/mildlyinteresting
Genial
Орфография на высоте
Ребусы это твоя фишка💪😂👏👏👏
How about joining the letters color coded
not as international, for example: Blue=Azul, B,A you have to memorie a color coding, the point of this encoding is to be able to read a sign you never saw before with the training you already have in your language.
@The Rockall Times yeah we're just having fun with ideas I think
Gorkorov? Really!?? Тогда уж и не Юлиана, а Юлиан сразу давай
bU KONUŞMALARIN TÜRKÇE ALTYAZISI OLURSAÇOK GÜZEL OLUR
vEYA İNGİLİZCE ALTYAZI
TEŞEKKÜRLER
оууу она русская
По акценту сразу слышно)
So cool!
What a beautiful face she has😍
Can anyone tell me what those last four things are?
First I start video to see her beauty only but later fall in love with her brain....Just superb.....😍😍😍
By the way you are beautiful too....
@The Rockall Times Ya but not 100% true.....Bcuz it's not necessary that every white lady is beautiful.....But she is naturally beautiful....
this is so beautiful
Me, superstitiously looking at the timestamp: "Make a wish!"
ازاي اترجم الفيديو
Bravo!!!
NYU YORC
There were plenty of pictures in the example emoji alphabet that I didn't understand. to think that people from all parts of the world will interpret them in the same way and that all those cultures call those pictures the same thing is laughable. please tell me what the two characters after yoga were or the last one that looked like a chihuahua? or the flower that is supposed to be an N? you think everyone in the world will know what that is? not to mention that if you need to communicate something to someone and there is a language barrier, drawing all those characters is time consuming and frustrating. people will end up simplifying the characters into stick figures which will just turn into new alphabet characters creating a written language which will have to be taught to children, just like the present day alphabet our respective cultures use today. If you want a common language for the world... just pick one and teach it to everyone. Game of thrones " common tongue" style.
We have an international language for banking, aviation, sea faring, computing, space and most other things. English. Just 26 letters, not 33 cyrillic or 32 Hebrew (including final forms). Great idea to have fonts where embedded foreign pronunciation can exist. We also have an international spelling alphabet (alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, foxtrot etc.) But the pictogram idea using objects which have an internationally recognisable pronunciation is a great idea.
תודה רבה, хорошо Werke
Thanks, good work!
This spelling alphabet is not international. I'm not sure but I think only English-speaking countries use that.
@@yanagelfand4337 It is used to spell out English words, the language of space, aviation and sea. I'm sure you are right that it is not used in languages where the latin alphabet is not used. I think that it was intended for helping low quality audio over radio (a British invention).
The arabic looks weird no matter what we do to it.
intelligent
Откуда эта девушка?
I'm a simple man, i see cute woman on tedx i like
英語の勉強として聞いている人いませんかー？
Song Ye
Yes! But now I reside in Australia : )
keong mas
Nice 👍🏼
Wow