Discover the linguistics behind Thaana, the unique writing system of the Maldives, where the alphabet is literally built from numbers.…
Usually, we introduce a person by name before using a pronoun, but cataphora flips the script ("Before he left, John…
Far from being a mere mistake, mirror writing offers a fascinating glimpse into how the human brain processes visual symmetry…
Separated by the Aras River and two centuries of divergent history, the Azerbaijani language exists in a unique sociolinguistic split:…
Explore the visual and linguistic allure of Urdu's "hanging" script, Nastaʿlīq. This article delves into why Urdu defies the flat…
While Hindi and Urdu rely on completely different writing systems and divergent formal vocabularies—drawing from Sanskrit and Persian respectively—they share…
While most of the world writes horizontally, and East Asian scripts traditionally flow vertically from right to left, the traditional…
Confused why "Peking" became "Beijing", or why "Quran" is sometimes spelled "Koran"? It all comes down to the linguistic battle…
Often overshadowed by the Voynich Manuscript, the Rohonc Codex involves a mysterious book found in Hungary containing nearly 800 distinct…
Unlike the arbitrary order of the Latin ABCs, the Javanese script (Hanacaraka) is organized into a perfect poem recounting a…
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