Articles in the Language Stories series
Long before paper became affordable, the ancient world ran on ostraca—broken pottery shards used for everything from grocery lists and…
Decades before Airbnb or Couchsurfing existed, Esperanto speakers built a global, offline hospitality network called Pasporta Servo. By using a…
Explore the bizarre history of *Incubus* (1966), the horror cult classic starring William Shatner that was filmed entirely in Esperanto.…
While most people know the word "curry" hails from India, few realize that everyday English words like "mango", "catamaran", and…
Mandarin chengyu (four-character idioms) act as "cultural zip files", compressing complex historical tales into compact phrases like "to draw a…
Discover the fascinating linguistic evolution of Urdu, a language that began as a practical means of communication in Mughal army…
Trace the rise and fall of the Scots language, from its golden age as the official tongue of kings and…
Discover the fascinating linguistic journey of Adyghe, a complex Northwest Caucasian language that traveled from the Russian city of Maykop…
Discover the fascinating story of Crimean Gothic, a Germanic dialect that survived in isolation on the Black Sea coast for…
Unlike the arbitrary order of the Latin ABCs, the Javanese script (Hanacaraka) is organized into a perfect poem recounting a…
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