For Multilingual Writers: Learning English Capitalization

Learning English Capitalization

FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS

Capitalization systems vary considerably among languages, and some languages (Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Hebrew, for example) do not use capital letters at all. English may be the only language to capitalize the first-person singular pronoun (I), but Dutch and German capitalize some forms of the second-person pronoun (you). German capitalizes all nouns; English used to capitalize more nouns than it does now (see, for instance, the Declaration of Independence).