In the early 20th century, Ludwig Sütterlin designed a unique handwriting script that became the standard in German schools, only…
Explore the fascinating political history of the Ukrainian alphabet, where a single letter can act as a revolutionary symbol. This…
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For over two millennia, the Sinosphere was united by a written language completely divorced from spoken speech—a "Latin of the…
Separated by the Aras River and two centuries of divergent history, the Azerbaijani language exists in a unique sociolinguistic split:…
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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…
For most of the 20th century, Cebuano, not Tagalog, held the title for the most native speakers in the Philippines,…
Discover the fascinating linguistic history behind the world's fourth most populous nation. We explore how the 1928 "Youth Pledge" united…
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