central asia

Cyrillic Persian: Why Tajik Scripts Changed 3 Times

Tajik is the only variety of the Persian language officially written in Cyrillic, a result of turbulent 20th-century Soviet policies…

4 months ago

The Alphabet Wars: Central Asia’s Script Politics

An alphabet is more than just a tool for writing; it's a flag, a declaration of identity. In Central Asia,…

10 months ago

One Nation, One Hundred Languages: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union’s Grand Linguistic Experiment

The Soviet Union's language policy was a dramatic paradox, beginning with the revolutionary promotion of over 100 minority languages through…

10 months ago

The Whispering Road: How Sogdian Became the Lingua Franca of the Silk Road

Long before English dominated global trade, the language of the Sogdians, an Iranian people from Central Asia, connected the great…

10 months ago

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