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Conlangery #50: The Technology of Literacy

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Um, Um, Is There Any Writing in Old High German?

There is very very little writing in old high german. Official writings of the persian empire were never in persian almost For for a very long time I think until like the the muslim period Yeah, um And also, yes, since then we we see basically an explosion of uh writing in the popular languages. This trend seems to be stronger when you have a non-alphabetic system The greeks and the romans had very surprisingly widespread literacy such that we have lots of very elevated things like graffiti Business letters personal letters that were possible.

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