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Do 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? (aussie.zone)
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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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”

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    While I don't speak Chinese, I saw some comment mentioning that the protagonist of the apothecary diaries Maomao's name means literally "cat cat". She is latter called Xiaomao meaning something like little cat. I wonder if the first one had some similar roots to the way it is used in Thai meaning big cat 😺

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