Are you referring to the Naris style of Thai script? I just thought it was due to a broad nib, though I don't know enough about it to rule out the influence of Latin blackletter categorically. There … (View Post)
On 24 May, which is the Day of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture, I posted on Facebook about Bulgarian Cyrillic forms. Someone replied in a comment that on MacOS and iOS, Faceboo… (View Post)
According to Wikipedia, it started from a Russian convention in the 17th century to distinguish Steppe Kazakhs from the Cossacks of the Russian Imperial military, which probably comes from the same r… (View Post)
By the way, the Cyrillic ә for Kazakh, slated to be written as a' in the Latin version of the alphabet, is not a schwa sound despite using the identical glyph (though a different code point as it's a… (View Post)