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Language affects its speakers’ world view. So we need languages and writing systems diversity in digital world. Interesting writing systems and facts about languages collected by @sitnik_en.
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The word “Hello” is not more than 200 years old in the English language. The word began to be used after the introduction of telephones, before that people used “good morning”, etc. Don’t be afraid to invent new words. New Testament in the Kalmyk language, before the script was converted to Cyrillic alphabet “This page has been left as a mistake. Go further.” Error 404 found in a 19th century manuscript! 'Tsvetnik' by Simeon of Syzran. Unicode only adds new characters, you can't delete them. So we have ghost characters that are added by mistake and don’t make sense. And that’s why there is a list of deprecated characters that are not recommended to use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_character_property#Deprecated There are characters in Unicode whose meaning has been lost (or they got into Unicode by mistake). One of them is Angzarr. The most popular hypothesis is that it was a mistake in porting math symbols from older systems. The Circassian alphabet (Caucasian nation in Russia) is now based on the Cyrillic alphabet. But there are projects based on old signs—mythoepic alphabets. http://apsnyteka.org/1356-daur_cherkesskaya_kalligrafiya.html The page from Book of Ballymote (AD 1390), part of the Auraicept na n-Éces, explaining the Ogham script  @linguopunk so good in fact that it was noticed during dress rehearsal and she was "asked" to changed it ;) We are used to programming languages being based on English. But the Uiua language is based on mathematical notation. It’s especially beautiful how formulas are turned into graphics or sound. On average, in all languages studied, the rate of information transmission is about 39.5 bits per second. If the density of information per syllable is less—the speed of speech, will be higher. Sino-Islamic calligraphy: the Basmallah is depicted in a way that is inspired by the characters for “long life” (長壽) Titanium plate from the Europa Clipper spacecraft. On the face are waveforms of audio recordings of the word “water” in 103 languages. They come from the sign for “water” in American Sign Language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper#Public_outreach Egyptian characters are going to be added to Unicode 16. How many memes will they start making in chat rooms using them, I wonder? Full list of the new hieroglyphs: How do the Chinese write Morse code? They use a 7,000 character table book and transmits numbers—page, row, column. 2429 is 文 (24 page, 2 line, 9 column). |