Slavic languages were written in Cyrillic, but after a while, they started to use the Latin script, and the languages were completely split into separate languages using different scripts, now being known as Eastern and Western Slavic. However, looking at Asian and Middle-Eastern languages, we see that they are not splitting into different languages using different scripts like Slavic languages. Why did that not happen to them?
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Not all Asian writing systems are that old. Korea’s Hangul is only 600 years old, and most Mainland Chinese use a simplified form of traditional Chinese characters developed in the 20th century.
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