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The church adapted the Roman alphabet to introduce literacy in the Sora language, and in the 1980s a flood of government schools, roads, employment and development cash introduced speaking and writing in Odia, too.

Some of the younger students have learned to write their names in the modified Roman alphabet used in Polish, while others use Ukrainian-language Cyrillic lettering.

Whereas 75% of speakers whose languages use the Roman alphabet—including English and other European languages—made the link, only 63% of speakers of other languages such as Georgian and Japanese did.

It was the first in a spate of storms that exhausted the Roman alphabet for hurricane names earlier in the season than ever recorded.

There has also been a challenge to imagine how to write languages in the sky that don’t use the Roman alphabet.