Curated category
Analytic languages
- Thai languageIn 1405, the Chinese explorer Ma Huan recorded the language of the Xiānluó kingdom in his book Yingya Shenglan. He noted that the local speech resembled the…
- Chinese languageOracle bones from the Shang dynasty, dated to around 1250 BCE, bear the earliest known inscriptions of Chinese. These divinatory marks carved into animal…
- English languageIn the 5th century, Germanic tribes known as Angles, Saxons, and Jutes crossed the North Sea to settle in Britain. These people spoke dialects that would…
- Hawaiian languageIn 1778, British explorer James Cook did not hear the word Hawaii when he first made contact with the islands, but rather Owhyhee.