Long before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the Kingdom of Aksum produced the Ezana Stone, a trilingual monument inscribed…
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Japanese scholars spent centuries using Classical Chinese as their formal written language, despite the two languages having completely incompatible grammar…
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Tajik is the only variety of the Persian language officially written in Cyrillic, a result of turbulent 20th-century Soviet policies…
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