juvenissun
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Oriental languages fit into a number of different families including Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan (these are the largest 2 families), Indo-Aryan, Japonic, Austronesian, Kadai, Mon-Khmer, Dravidian, Turkic, Semitic and a number of other, smaller families. Western languages in general fit into a different set of families, although Indo-European and Turkic would be 2 obvious common families.
In terms of writing, Hanzi (Chinese) is the only purely logographic system. Japanese uses a mix of logographic and syllabic writing, while the others use either syllabic, abugida or alphabetic systems.
ETA All "western" (meaning European, rather than western hemisphere) languages use alphabetic orthography.
You did not answer my question.
For example, the language of Iran, why is their alphabets looks so different from Latin alphabets? Is ancient Egyptian language graphical or alphabetical?
And, if the language of whole world use some kind of alphabet, why is Chinese language different?
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