silk road

Left-to-Right & Vertical: Mongolian’s Writing Orientation

While most of the world writes horizontally, and East Asian scripts traditionally flow vertically from right to left, the traditional…

6 days ago

Why Tocharian Was an Anomaly

Imagine discovering a lost language in Western China that looks far more like Latin or Irish than its immediate neighbors,…

3 months ago

The Whispering Road: How Sogdian Became the Lingua Franca of the Silk Road

Long before English dominated global trade, the language of the Sogdians, an Iranian people from Central Asia, connected the great…

6 months ago

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