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52: Writing is a technology

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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Adapting Scripts Into Languages

The writing system kind of fits with the vibe of the grammar of the language. In Japanese, where they were heavily influenced by the Chinese script, but have suffixes and other little grammatical words. Another interesting example here is Farsi or Persian, which has had additional letters added because like Persian has a P and Arabic doesn't. So you end up could have adapting a script into something else when it gets borrowed in a different context.

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