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Things I Learned: Official Languages in Russia

From a January 12, 2026 Jamestown Foundation report by Vadim Shtepa: The Karelian language has no official status in Russia because it is written in the Latin alphabet, as only those written in Cyrillic can be official languages of Russian republics. Thus, I learned that only languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet can be granted "official status" in Russia. This reminded me of something I learned which inspired me to write Similarities between Moldovan and Romanian on The New Leaf […]

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/official-languages-in-russia-01-16-26/

Alexey Staroselets Feb 19, 2025

Visual history of Latin Alphabet

https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en

#LatinAlphabet #calligraphy #typographyHistory

ARETE — Visual History of the Latin Alphabet

Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces to each other

Tim Mills Sep 6, 2024

#Lingule #873 "dweepziek": 1/6
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https://lingule.xyz/

Those vowels! So distinctive, in a writing system used by over 1500 languages.

#LatinAlphabet #WritingVowels

Lingule

A fun little language game

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Tim Mills Feb 15, 2024

(Good reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_Greek_alphabets#Euboean)

#WritingSystems #LatinAlphabet #GreekAlphabet #Euboean

Archaic Greek alphabets - Wikipedia

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Tim Mills Feb 15, 2024

The first is that some Euboean letter forms differed from their normal Greek counterparts in ways that foreshadowed (in hindsight) how Latin would look. Gamma, for example, was more of a "𐌂" in Euboea, where regular Greek Gamma was more "Γ". This is the letter that became our "C". And Greek delta "Δ" was more kind of lifted on the right - and sometimes rounded - like "𐌃". Thus our "D". There are others - sigma and rho. Cool!
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#WritingSystems #LatinAlphabet #GreekAlphabet #EtruscanAlphabet

Tim Mills Feb 15, 2024

So ... prepping my #WritingSystems class for next fall, and looking at the origins of the Latin alphabet. The Latin writing system is (mainly) derived from Etruscan (a language spoken around what is now central and northern Italy), which had adapted its writing from Greek.

Okay, but it was a particular flavour of Greek writing the Etruscans used, from Euboea (Εὔβοια). There are two really cool things about Euboean Greek. (1/3)

#WritingSystems #LatinAlphabet #GreekAlphabet #EtruscanAlphabet

pablolarah Dec 10, 2023

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✨Arete ✺ Visual History of the Latin Alphabet by @uclab_potsdam @uclab_potsdam
Web: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en
#typography #LatinAlphabet #History #Interactive

to my Typography Resources:
https://typography.pablolarah.cl

ARETE — Visual History of the Latin Alphabet

Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces to each other