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unusual facts about written language


P.A.N.

P.A.N. (A.K.A.: Poetry Analyzer, Textual Analyzer) is a freeware application that allows you to analyze virtually any sort of text (fiction, newspaper, poetry, history text book).


Frederick William Savidge

Together they were entirely responsible for the creation of written language in Mizo, beginning of literacy, origin of formal education and establishment of churches in Mizoram.


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Bokmål

Old language traditions were revived by the patriotic poet Henrik Wergeland (1808–1845), who championed an independent non-Danish written language.

Cia-Cia language

Wolio is falling into disuse as a written language among the Cia-Cia, as it is written using the Arabic script and Indonesian is now taught in schools with the Latin script.

Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic

First published in 1961 by Otto Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Germany, it was an enlarged and revised English version of Wehr's German Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart ("Arabic dictionary for the contemporary written language") (1952) and its Supplement (1959).

Drazark monastery

Within the walls of Drazark monastery studied such a masters of medieval written language as Hovhannes Arqayeghbayr (1220–1289)(junior brother of the King Hetum I), Sargis Pitsak and some others.

Janus Kamban

His first monumental work was Móðurmálið (mother tongue), made in 1948 from local basalt, as an anniversary memorial for V U Hammershaimb, 1846, creator of the Faroese written language.

Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace

The newspaper was until March 2012 also published in German, although the Alsatian dialect is not a written language for the Alsatians German (about 10% prints).

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Starting with the development of symbolic written language (and the eventual perceived need for a dictionary), Gleick examines the history of intellectual insights central to information theory, detailing the key figures responsible such as Claude Shannon, Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and John Archibald Wheeler.