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Ideology and Alphabets in the former USSR. [PDF]
, 2006 In 2002 the Russian parliament passed a law requiring all official languages within the Russian Federation to use the Cyrillic alphabet. The legislation caused great controversy and anger in some quarters, especially in Tatarstan, the Russian republic ...
Sebba, Mark
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Learning the Manchu Writing System: The Role of Intra‐Symbol Processing in Orthography Acquisition
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.Manchu is a critically endangered language in China with fewer than 100 native users remaining. As the first empirical study on Manchu orthography acquisition, we focused on novice learners (n = 196) and examined visual complexity and symbol‐sound mapping complexity of Manchu symbol blocks.
Bai Li, Victoria Murphy, Sonali Nag
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IET Computer Vision, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.This survey systematically reviews state‐of‐the‐art license plate recognition methods, with a focus on hybrid CNN‐transformer frameworks and the joint optimisation of detection and recognition for real‐world deployment. It further analyses existing datasets, highlights persistent challenges, such as domain generalisation, and outlines pathways towards ...
SanXing Deng +3 more
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Lietuvos Istorijos StudijosThe article deals with the issue of cultural relations between Lithuania and Ukraine during the 18th and early 19th centuries on the basis of copies of old books preserved in Vilnius University Library.
Ina Kažuro
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Capital Gains: Effects of Word Class and Sentence Position on Capitalization Use Across Age
Child Development, Volume 96, Issue 6, Page 2233-2246, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Learning to capitalize in English requires identifying a word's type and sentence position. In two cloze studies (2021–2022), Australian students of all genders (95% White, monolingual) spelled words with one and two capitalization cues (proper nouns, sentence‐initial words) and no‐cue control words.
Emilia Hawkey +2 more
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Classical Mongolian Script: State Policy Revisited
Монголоведение, 2021 Introduction. The Mongolian script is a prime example of the written culture of Mongols. Over the past 30 years, the Mongolian State and Government have been implementing step-by-step measures to restore and apply the Mongolian script. Goals.
Demberel Kolyagiyn
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Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 237-249, September 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines emotional and material traces lingering in the aftermath of forced linguistic landscape transformations in Inner Mongolia following the implementation of a new assimilationist national language policy in 2022. Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic landscape data, the study specifically examines how the multilingual signs ...
Gegentuul Baioud
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Universal Visual Features Might Be Necessary for Fluent Reading. A Longitudinal Study of Visual Reading in Braille and Cyrillic Alphabets [PDF]
, 2017 International audienceIt has been hypothesized that efficient reading is possible because all reading scripts have been matched, through cultural evolution, to the natural capabilities of the visual cortex. This matching has resulted in all scripts being
Ewa Sumera +14 more
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The Invention of Tradition: Vinča Script
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2010 The problematic term the Vinča script denotes a number of incised ornaments and signs on the surface of the pottery of the Vinča culture – one of the most important »cultures« of the South Eastern European Neolithic.
Aleksandar Palavestra
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East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2021 This report from the field concerns a collaborative project which resulted in successfully adding the Cyrillic fields to about 30,000 Ukrainian bibliographic records in OCLC WorldCat, the world’s largest online catalogue.
Jenny Toves +2 more
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