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Arabic calligraphy: moving characters or signs; other symbols
Those additional symbols ("looking like "v", commas or apostrophes") have no meaning, no phonetic value, they are used just to fill the empty places, for the text to look more or less homogeneous and …
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Please help me identify this language (image)
@prash is right, that is Malayalam, and the text is upside down, it reads "mādhavi", മാധവി, which is most likely a female name.
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What's the name of the principle that derives the sound of a symbol from the name of the thi...
That's called acrophony or acrophonic principle.
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Beta vs eszett character difference
There are at least 2 features of eszett that differ it from beta:
the short dash-like horizontal stroke protruding to the left from the vertical spine of eszett, which is never present in beta;
the c …
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Replacing Chinese characters with pinyin forever as Vietnamese did
It would be possible to use pinyin even without the tone marks to write down Chinese and it will be correctly understood. Actually, a similar thing has been done in the Dungan language for decades alr …
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