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Day: July 2, 2016

What is one random thing you like about Albania?

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek, Other Languages

The way familiar words (Greek or Turkish) look in Albanian. xham. suxhuk. trëndafill. And the word you just gave me: sufllaqe. Answered 2016-07-02 [Originally posted on http://quora.com/What-is-one-random-thing-you-like-about-Albania/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]

Does an equivalent of cursive exist in other alphabets?

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Posted in categories: Modern Greek, Writing Systems

Greek: there was a cursive modelled after Western cursive in the 19th/20th century. It fell out of use long before computers (I was never taught it in school); I have seen it in letters from the 50s. The main differences to what you might expect: kappa looking like a <u>; pi as an omega with […]