Discover the linguistics behind Thaana, the unique writing system of the Maldives, where the alphabet is literally built from numbers.…
While many Slavic languages have simplified their grammar over the centuries, Ukrainian has steadfastly retained the Vocative case—the "7th case"…
Explore the fascinating political history of the Ukrainian alphabet, where a single letter can act as a revolutionary symbol. This…
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…
While we casually use words like 'Avatar' and 'Karma' in daily English, their journey from the ancient Vedas involves a…
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:…
In the 20th century, Azerbaijani speakers were forced to change their official alphabet three times—from Perso-Arabic to Latin, to Cyrillic,…
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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