Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Discover the surprising "orthographic genealogy" that connects the cursive loops of Arabic to the geometric scripts of India. This post analyzes how the ancient Aramaic abjad traveled the Silk Road…
While most of the world writes horizontally, and East Asian scripts traditionally flow vertically from right to left, the traditional Mongolian script is a linguistic anomaly: it is written in…
Imagine discovering a lost language in Western China that looks far more like Latin or Irish than its immediate neighbors, Sanskrit and Persian. The extinct Tocharian languages presented linguists with…
Long before English dominated global trade, the language of the Sogdians, an Iranian people from Central Asia, connected the great empires of the East and West. This is the story…