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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Polish never used Cyrillic and Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian still predominantly do. Obviously, there’s a difference when you have digraphy like in Serbian where Cyrillic and Latin pair 1-1 and have coexisted for about 1500 years next to each other and when you have Chinese script that spent 3500 years developing on its own…
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