classical chinese

Why China Abandoned the “Latin of the East”

For over two millennia, the Sinosphere was united by a written language completely divorced from spoken speech—a "Latin of the…

6 days ago

Code-Switching on Paper: How Japan “Hacked” Classical Chinese

Japanese scholars spent centuries using Classical Chinese as their formal written language, despite the two languages having completely incompatible grammar…

6 days ago

How Did People Learn Languages in the Ancient World?

The ability to communicate across linguistic boundaries has always been a hallmark of human civilization. From early tribal communities to…

2 years ago

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