For a few years now, it’s been fashionable to get a tattoo of some word that has a special meaning for the person in question, but in another language… and especially in languages that use a different alphabet than our own. Coming in first are Japanese and Chinese, but it’s increasingly common to see tattoos […]
As a Spanish speaker used to always finding the accents in the same corner of my keyboard, whenever I happen to use someone else’s keyboard I’m filled with frustration because inevitably I will get a discomfiting ç or a mocking ? instead of the needed á. On my keyboard, the ñ is always at hand, […]
Uzbek is a Turkic language spoken mainly in Uzbekistan, where it is an official language, but also it is also spoken in Australia, China, Germany, Israel, Spain, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Eastern Turkey, Northern Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and the United States of America. Its writing systems When the language was in its nascent stages, back in […]