Discover the "Short U" (Ў), a unique Cyrillic character found exclusively in the Belarusian alphabet. We explore the linguistics behind…
Explore the fascinating linguistic divide in Belarus, where the choice between the official "Narkamaŭka" spelling and the classical "Taraškievica" is…
Why do we say "feet" instead of "foots"? It isn't a random quirk of English grammar, but the result of…
Old English possessed a grammatical rarity called the "dual number", using specific pronouns—*wit* (we two) and *git* (you two)—to refer…
While modern English relies on the Latin alphabet, our language was originally written in the angular, 33-character runic system known…
Yiddish presents a rare linguistic paradox: a Germanic language, close kin to English and German, written entirely in the ancient…
Discover the *Appendix Probi*, a 3rd-century list of "mistakes" that unintendedly documented the birth of the Romance languages. This article…
While Etruscan has long been considered a mysterious "language isolate", the discovery of the Lemnos Stele in the Aegean Sea…
Explore the history of the "Silver Bible", a 6th-century masterpiece written in silver and gold ink on purple vellum. We…
For most of the 20th century, Cebuano, not Tagalog, held the title for the most native speakers in the Philippines,…
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