Re: dharma sandEham

uday bhaskar (srijna@hotmail.com)
Wed, 20 Aug 1997 01:27:38 PDT


akkirAju BattiprOlu gAru wrote:

>
>guroo gaaroo  (evarayinaa sarE!)...
>
>Which other language has more number of letters than telugu?
>I know that Chinese has some hundreds (is it 356?) of letters.
>Any other language has more than us ?  
>

As far as I know, Japanese is the most prolific in terms of number of 
letters in the alphabet. The Kanji script apparently has more than 4000 
symbols (not "akSharAlu", but "cihnAlu"). Most literate Japanese, may 
however be knowing only a fraction of their entire alphabet. 

Regards,

Uday 

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