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which language has the most letters in its alphabet?

i was looking at a sign in an asian language the other day and wondered how many letters there were in the language they were writing in, then the thought entered my mind who has got the most letters in there alphabet, China,Japan, Arabic,Russian,Pakistani,Indian or is it us with 26

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Thai has 76 letters: 44 consonants, 28 vowel forms and 4 tone markers.

    Source(s): Im Thai.
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I know Chinese at an low-intermediate level, and I've been a high school English teacher in America. In my opinion, Chinese won't replace English as an international language. The tones are too difficult for the majority of non-native speakers to master to high proficiency, and the characters and writing system are, as you say, much more difficult than an alphabetic system.

  • 5 years ago

    Armenian alphabet has 39 letters

  • 1 decade ago

    Russia has like 32.... China doesn't have an alphabet per se, but there's more than 2000 characters

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  • 7 years ago

    Tamil Has most letters 247

  • 1 decade ago

    the japanese language! there are 3 kinds of writing such as kanji, the difficult one that came from chinese readings, 2nd is hiragana translating word one by one, and the last is katakana translate foreign words to japanese alphabet

    Source(s): living in japan
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    when you say "us " I presume you are meaning the English Language.

    But even in Europe there are variations , for instance the Portuguese don't have a "Y".

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Chinese, definitely. But they don't use letters, they use characters which are like pictures that spell out words.

    Source(s): Taking Chinese Class for 3 years
  • 1 decade ago

    I think it was Hungarian, but I'm not sure. It has like 36 letters.

  • 1 decade ago

    i think it's japanese...like they have katakana, kanji, and hiragana.....even romaji counts....just take a look at this pic....

    http://www.fuzita.org/jpculture/letters/kkaiueo.gi...

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