Sounds you didn't know humans could make
Grammar systems that will bend your brain
Writing systems designed like puzzles
Languages that change how you see the world
YOUR GOAL
Master of The wild world of human speech
duolingo Ancient Mesoamerican scribes carved intricate interlocking blocks of Maya hieroglyphs
duolingo Puzzle Writing Systems
Fusing the glyphs to crack the code (oh-oh!) Squeezing the sounds to hit the road (yeah, yeah!)
duolingo Bright arrows trace the looping, upside-down reading path on a wooden Rongorongo tablet.
duolingo Three colored highlights separate Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana characters on a printed page.
Korean Hangul shapes: The letters are designed to mimic the physical shape of your mouth.
What do the shapes of the consonant letters in the Korean Hangul alphabet represent?
In what decade was the Rongorongo script of Easter Island first noticed by outsiders?
Which of the following is NOT one of the three writing systems used in modern Japanese?
What must a reader do to read a tablet written in the Rongorongo script of Easter Island?