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On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the remarkable diversity of the world’s languages and the cultures, identities and knowledge systems they carry. Language is far more than a communication tool — it shapes how we think, how we co...
Did you know that Tamil is one of the oldest surviving languages in the world? But, like all languages, Tamil has vastly evolved from its origins. And, with native speakers spread across South and South-East Asia, it has since also branched off in...
Arabic is probably the most widely translated right-to-left (RTL) language (the other major ones include Urdu, Hebrew, Farsi and Kurdish), Arabic is an official language in 26 countries and spoken by over 420 million people, so it should be no surpri...
Today is the UN’s Chinese Language Day – a day which is chosen to coincide with “Guyu” in the Chinese calendar. Guyu is celebrated in honour of the Chinese folk hero Cangjie, who is said to have created Chinese characters thousands of years a...
You might be familiar with Japanese fusion restaurants, blending Japanese dishes with food from other areas of the world, but did you know that Japanese writing is a fusion of different scripts? Of course, most languages and writing systems have e...
