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This is the Rongorongo script of Easter Island. Rongorongo lacks an accepted decipherment but is generally presumed to encode an earlier stage of Rapa Nui, the contemporary Polynes...
Abu Bakr Effendi’s "Bayân al-Dîn" written in a modified Arabic script and published in Istanbul in 1877, was the first substantive book printed in the Afrikaans language. These a...
Roald Dahl - 2001 authorized Puffin edition vs 2022 authorized Puffin edition. https://t.co/4dnBSjHEvT https://t.co/Psfulj7Krk
The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of i...
At first glance, a Chinese instruction manual of some kind. But look again more closely: everything here - every single word - is in ENGLISH. This is "An Introduction to Square...
Chojo Daejanggyeong [Chojo Tripitaka] 尊婆須蜜菩薩所集論 Printed in Korea between 1011-1082 AD. This sutra is from the Chojo [Chudiao] first edition Tripitaka collection of Korea,...
It's not often a once-in-a-century reference book is published, but that's exactly what Daniel Huws' "A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800" is. Over 25 years...
An Ottoman engraved brass stamp in the shape of a hand, for talismanic printing, circa 18th century. The face of the stamp is engraved with Qur'anic verses and prayers in mirror im...
Ku |khaasi is an extinct ǃKwi language once spoken in the southwest Kalahari desert. In 1936, one of the last speakers, Kabara, was recorded singing a lullaby to her baby, Mataba...
In the 1980s there was a very brief state-tolerated flowering of Uyghur culture in China. No Uyghur novels at all were printed prior to 1978, but between 1978-87, 15 were published...
The oldest surviving printed Cornish is in a book by Andrew Borde, published in 1540. "In Cornwall is two speches: the one is naughty Englysshe and the other is Cornysshe speche. T...
There are four Kartvelian languages (ქართველური ენები) - Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian and Laz - which together form a language isolate, like Basque - of unknown origin, and unrelated...