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I think English may be a better example; we just stapled chunks of vulgar latin to an inconsistently simplified proto-germanic and then borrowed words from every language we met along the way. Add in 44 sounds serialized to the page with 26 letters and tada!


The Norman conquest of England means English is a language with barbarian syntax and French nouns. It's a happy mess of cultural appropriation!

Squeezing the lot into 26 characters was simply genius - enabling printing with movable type, Morse code, Baudot code, ASCII, etc.

Of course, then icons came along and ruined everything.




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