New Zealand's founding document, the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, exists in two languages—but it tells two different stories. A crucial…
Discover the forgotten story of Dr. J. W. P. Davis, a Liberian doctor who invented a unique writing system for…
In 1815, the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora didn't just cause a "year without a summer" across the globe; it…
The famous ‘th’ sound in Castilian Spanish is often attributed to a lisping king whose court mimicked his speech. This…
The name "Pakistan" is famously an acronym for the homelands of Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, and Sindh. But a fascinating, debated…
When Amos Tutuola published *The Palm-Wine Drinkard* in 1952, its "broken" English was celebrated abroad but scorned as a national…
Explore the sociopolitical story of Singlish, Singapore's vibrant creole, and its decades-long clash with the government's official "Speak Good English…
In 1894, one man embarked on a seemingly impossible quest: to map every language on the Indian subcontinent. Discover the…
Meet Elias Lönnrot, the 19th-century Finnish physician who traveled thousands of kilometers on foot and ski to collect the fading…
How are new languages born from scratch? This article explores the fascinating debate over creolization, contrasting the "abrupt" theory, where…
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