Olezhka is a font to write in Cyrillic vyaz (including in Latin).
Each letter has several alternatives and 400 letter ligatures to merge buttons in vyaz style.
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Olezhka is a font to write in Cyrillic vyaz (including in Latin). Each letter has several alternatives and 400 letter ligatures to merge buttons in vyaz style.
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Petition to add Tatar language to Duolingo. The Tatar language is the state language in Tatarstan and is the second most widespread language in Russia. https://www.change.org/p/tatar-language-in-duolingo “We have an experienced team of methodologists and linguists ready to participate in the development of a Tatar language course in both Russian and English”.
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How people laugh online.
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Albania was between several empires and religions. The Ottoman Empire imposed the Arabic script on them, the Catholics imposed the Latin script, the Orthodox imposed the Cyrillic script. So in the 19th century they came up with their own independent writing system, which is not based on the other scripts. But in reality, the Latin alphabet won. It was already on typewriters that were imported into the country.
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Clock face with 12 different numeral notations
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The Tatar-language song “Piyala” by AIGEL has reached number two on Shazam’s global top chart.
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In the game Chants of Sennaar you need to solve puzzles by talking to people, but the problem is that they speak a language you don't know with a strange writing. So need to decode this language and learn it. The action takes place on different levels of the Tower of Babel. The people on each floor speak a different language, meaning you'll have to work with different types of writing and grammars.
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In Arabic, there is no difference between lowercase and uppercase letters. But in 1932, Egypt was going to add capital letters to Arabic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Letters_and_Punctuation_and_Their_Placements
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Mural in Murmansk by Dmitry Lamonov with modern Slavic calligraphy
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A draft of Arabic calligraphy
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A café where you can order coffee silently using Turkish sign language
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A tax receipt from Sierra Leone in Mende Kikakui script
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Al-Buni’s Treatise on the Magical Uses of the Ninety-nine Names of God. How interesting the Arabic script fits into the diagrams.
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Arabic writing in the Chinese style. Xi'an Cathedral Mosque. 12
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