Long before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the Kingdom of Aksum produced the Ezana Stone, a trilingual monument inscribed…
Decades before Airbnb or Couchsurfing existed, Esperanto speakers built a global, offline hospitality network called Pasporta Servo. By using a…
Explore the bizarre history of *Incubus* (1966), the horror cult classic starring William Shatner that was filmed entirely in Esperanto.…
Discover the "Short U" (Ў), a unique Cyrillic character found exclusively in the Belarusian alphabet. We explore the linguistics behind…
Explore the fascinating linguistic divide in Belarus, where the choice between the official "Narkamaŭka" spelling and the classical "Taraškievica" is…
For over two millennia, the Sinosphere was united by a written language completely divorced from spoken speech—a "Latin of the…
Japanese scholars spent centuries using Classical Chinese as their formal written language, despite the two languages having completely incompatible grammar…
Why do we say "feet" instead of "foots"? It isn't a random quirk of English grammar, but the result of…
Old English possessed a grammatical rarity called the "dual number", using specific pronouns—*wit* (we two) and *git* (you two)—to refer…
While modern English relies on the Latin alphabet, our language was originally written in the angular, 33-character runic system known…
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