Discover the fascinating linguistic history behind the world's fourth most populous nation. We explore how the 1928 "Youth Pledge" united…
Explore the fascinating linguistic history of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where a unique dialect of Scottish Gaelic has survived for…
While fans of *Outlander* fell in love with possible Gaelic phrases, the true history of the language involves a dramatic…
Explore the fascinating history of Maltese, the only Semitic language in the European Union and the sole survivor of the…
While Malta is a devoutly Roman Catholic nation, its congregants pray to "Alla"—a direct cognate of the Arabic word for…
Maltese is the world's only Semitic language written officially in the Latin script, serving as a unique linguistic bridge between…
While most European languages form questions by simply swapping the subject and verb (like the German "Trinken Sie?"), English requires…
Between the 14th and 18th centuries, English speakers radically changed how they pronounced vowels, engaging in a massive linguistic game…
Tradition holds that King Ramkhamhaeng the Great single-handedly created the Thai writing system in 1283, but does this legend hold…
Dating back to roughly 1000 AD, the Freising Manuscripts (Brižinski spomeniki) hold the title of the oldest surviving texts in…
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