In the Middle Ages, scarce parchment was often scraped clean and reused, creating layered manuscripts known as palimpsests. Today, linguists…
Explore the fascinating political history of the Ukrainian alphabet, where a single letter can act as a revolutionary symbol. This…
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While most of the world writes horizontally, and East Asian scripts traditionally flow vertically from right to left, the traditional…
Discover the fascinating linguistic journey of Adyghe, a complex Northwest Caucasian language that traveled from the Russian city of Maykop…
Explore the fascinating linguistic history of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where a unique dialect of Scottish Gaelic has survived for…
While fans of *Outlander* fell in love with possible Gaelic phrases, the true history of the language involves a dramatic…
Travel back to 405 AD to discover how the monk Mesrop Mashtots engineered the 39-letter Armenian alphabet to save a…
Discover the incredible history of the Dainu skapis, a 19th-century card catalog built by Krišjānis Barons that houses over 200,000…
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