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Explore the fascinating linguistic divide in Belarus, where the choice between the official "Narkamaŭka" spelling and the classical "Taraškievica" is…
For over two millennia, the Sinosphere was united by a written language completely divorced from spoken speech—a "Latin of the…
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While English speakers struggle to decipher texts from just 500 years ago, modern Georgians can read their 12th-century national epic…
Separated by the Aras River and two centuries of divergent history, the Azerbaijani language exists in a unique sociolinguistic split:…
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