Everyone on this planet laughs pretty much the same way. No human will fail to recognize a laugh no matter from what corner of the world it comes from. But there is an aspect to laughing that is incredibly diverse across languages and cultures. While the acoustics of laughing are universally fixed, there is a great and surprising variety in how speakers of different languages choose to write the way they laugh. This diversity arises primarily from the different writing systems these languages use. Also, some of this variety is attributed to the fact that some languages do not have the sound corresponding to ‘h’ which make up the laughing interjunction. Let us know if your language made the list. If not, please add it in a comment.
1. English
2. French
3. German
4. Greek
5. Arabic
6. Hebrew
7. South Korean
8. Chinese
9. Ukrainian
10. Japanese
11. Indonesian
12. Russian
13. Spanish
14. Tai
15. Icelandic
16. Portuguese
17. Norwegian
18. Thai
19. Vietnamese
20. Chemists
21. Nerdish
You should be aware of that what you transcribe as x (Greek, Russian), is the Spanish j sound or the German ach sound. Hebrew ה is like English h, not like Spanish j or German ch in ach.
Japanese は is ha (Japanese has a h sound), but before a it is more like Spanish j or German ‘hard’ ch.
Myanmar they write, hkhkhk
You got the Hebrew backwards ?
As usually happens with Hebrew.
Should be
חה חה חה
Or just
חחח
Number 14 and 18 are the same.
Brazilian Portuguese:
hahahaha
hehehehe
huahuahuahuahua
No one laughs like “ははは” online in Japanese.
“www” ist accurate, and other possibilities include “笑”, “草”, “わろた”, “くそわろた”, “わろ”, “ワロス”, etc.
The Norwegian one is really inaccurate. The most commonly used laugh is haha, but we also write hehe, hihi, hoho, høhø, hæhæ, håhå, tihi or fnis, depending on the laugh in question
Brazilian Portuguese: kkkk
Italian
ahahah
ehehehe
ihihihih
Brazilian:
kkkk and rsrsrs
Brazilian Portuguese: kkkkk
Wkwkwk
Chemist laugh ???
Russians sometimes use )))) to mean happy/haha like smileys without the eyes
Tai and Thai?