Discover the fascinating story of Crimean Gothic, a Germanic dialect that survived in isolation on the Black Sea coast for…
Discover the "stoichedon" style of Ancient Greece, where inscriptions were carved in perfect, checkerboard-like grids without spaces or punctuation. This…
Discover the fascinating history behind terms like a "murder of crows" or a "parliament of owls." We explore how the…
Often overshadowed by the Voynich Manuscript, the Rohonc Codex involves a mysterious book found in Hungary containing nearly 800 distinct…
Contemporary with the famous Sumerian cuneiform, Proto-Elamite is a 5,000-year-old script from ancient Iran that remains almost entirely undeciphered. This…
Unlike the arbitrary order of the Latin ABCs, the Javanese script (Hanacaraka) is organized into a perfect poem recounting a…
Before the Greek alphabet conquered the Mediterranean, the island of Cyprus used a unique, puzzle-like script derived from the Bronze…
Retronyms are new names given to old objects when a modern version arrives to steal the default title—like how "guitars"…
When is a billion not a billion? This article explores the linguistic tug-of-war between the "Short Scale" (used in the…
Explore the fascinating history of the Dragoman, the polyglot intermediaries who held the keys to communication between the Ottoman Empire…
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