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Questions which apply solely or mostly to the written forms of languages as opposed to their spoken forms.
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How are algebraic operations written in a right-to-left language?
Edit: add N’Ko
I know of two modern living RTL mathematical tradition: Arabic and N’ko. I have no idea how other living RTL scripts (Hebrew, Dihevi, Syriac) deal with math.
Arabic
For Arabic (includin …
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Can one "sentence" belong to multiple languages?
If being the official written standardized form of the official language of an independent country is enough to be a “language”, the answer is yes. The difference between languages and dialects is oft …
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Most succinct written language
Edit to clarify that I used the full declaration and not only the article 1
The way to answer your question is to have a sample of the same long text translated in many languages. The only example I …
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How are line breaks handled in ideographic scripts?
A good way to have rough but well informed advices on how to process scripts is to look at the Unicode standard. The result does not contain all the nuance needed for a high quality typography, but st …
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Looking for Thai letter-frequency resource
I've downloaded the Thai Wikipedia dump of the 29/08/2013, converted its 82,200 articles into text files with wp2txt and counted the 195,667,724 characters with a small python script. wp2txt is suppos …
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