diacritics

The Hungarumlaut: Mastering the Double Acute Accent (ő, ű)

Hungarian is a typographic rarity, distinguishing itself as one of the only languages to utilize the "double acute" accent (ő,…

7 days ago

Why Is Polish So Different From Other Slavic Languages?

Ever wondered why Polish sounds and looks so different from its Slavic cousins like Russian or Czech? From its unique…

3 months ago

Cyrillic vs Latin: The Great Slavic Alphabet Divide

Why do Polish and Russian look so different despite both being Slavic languages? The answer lies not just in linguistics,…

3 months ago

How Vietnam Got Its Latin Script

The Vietnamese alphabet, Quốc Ngữ, presents a fascinating paradox with its Latin letters used for a tonal, Austroasiatic language. Originally…

6 months ago

The Alphabet of a Revolution: How N’Ko Is Uniting West Africa’s Languages

While many alphabets are ancient, the N'Ko script was born in 1949 from one man's defiant response to colonial prejudice.…

6 months ago

The Alphabet That Isn’t: Unpacking the Logic of Abugidas and Abjads

Most of us learn the ABCs and assume all writing works this way, but that's just one piece of the…

6 months ago

The History of the French Circumflex

The French language, renowned for its fluidity and musicality, is adorned with a variety of diacritical marks that contribute to…

2 years ago

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