The Ogham letter of Ireland is good for hiding some message in a pattern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham

A 1775 broadsheet explaining in great detail how to interpret the Swedish runic calendar

https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1785484790671749508

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.

https://www.uiua.org

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.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594

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:
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-13460.pdf

Magic book Batak pustaha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pustaha

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).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_telegraph_code

Modern Russian calligraphy in pixel style by @badfoxlab

Study that polar explorers developed their accent (which is the path to dialect) in only 6 months of living together in isolation

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240223-scientists-in-antarctica-developed-their-own-accent-after-six-months-of-isolation?

Pomeranian writing, manuscripts of the turn of the 18-19 century

„How depression looks like for a linguist: I created five writing systems for my fictional language”

https://twitter.com/tian_tian_mimi/status/1757378799749197925

China's Huawei has a different kite emoji—more like what the Chinese usually use.

A good example of diversity.

Many villagers in Senegal communicate only in local languages, which have no alphabet and no written language.

That’s why voice messages on WhatsApp are very helpful to them.

https://restofworld.org/2023/whatsapp-voice-notes-farming-senegal/

Fragment of a Russian scribe’s record on the irmas, XIX c.

A Tai shaman’s manuscript on mulberry-bark paper, written in Shan script.

Burma, circa 1900.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_alphabet

Islamic poster produced at the Karimov Brothers Printing House, Kazan, ca. 1911.

Chinese characters in Arabic style from the kulturSPK exhibition

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