silk road

Left-to-Right & Vertical: Mongolian’s Writing Orientation

While most of the world writes horizontally, and East Asian scripts traditionally flow vertically from right to left, the traditional…

4 months ago

Why Tocharian Was an Anomaly

Imagine discovering a lost language in Western China that looks far more like Latin or Irish than its immediate neighbors,…

6 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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