Discover the linguistics behind Thaana, the unique writing system of the Maldives, where the alphabet is literally built from numbers.…
In the early 20th century, Ludwig Sütterlin designed a unique handwriting script that became the standard in German schools, only…
In the Middle Ages, scarce parchment was often scraped clean and reused, creating layered manuscripts known as palimpsests. Today, linguists…
Long before paper became affordable, the ancient world ran on ostraca—broken pottery shards used for everything from grocery lists and…
Long before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the Kingdom of Aksum produced the Ezana Stone, a trilingual monument inscribed…
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…
While modern English relies on the Latin alphabet, our language was originally written in the angular, 33-character runic system known…
In the 20th century, Azerbaijani speakers were forced to change their official alphabet three times—from Perso-Arabic to Latin, to Cyrillic,…
Tajik is the only variety of the Persian language officially written in Cyrillic, a result of turbulent 20th-century Soviet policies…
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