Ahhh, Arabic! The dazzling gem of the Arab world has been captivating linguists and language lovers for centuries. With today ...

Korea is perhaps the only country in the world to have a holiday to celebrate the development ... Because of the sheer sophistication and elegance of the Korean alphabet, Hangul Day should be an ...

says a researcher who has created an atlas to map our alphabets and bring attention to their plight. Nearly half the world’s languages will have disappeared by the end of this century ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

For centuries, the world believed the ancient Egyptians pioneered the alphabet. Now, a groundbreaking discovery has pushed ...

Others are convinced. “It’s an alphabet,” says Silvia Ferrara, a professor in early languages at the University of Bologna in Italy, who was not involved in the work. “It’s easy-peasy.

The Kazakh language has long been unsure which alphabet to find a comfortable home ... to push for modernisation in a global and digital world. Of the other four Former Soviet Republics in Central ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet, believed to have existed in the Middle East hundreds of years earlier than other ancient scripts.

Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet ... around the world were communicating with one another. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia built a language from cuneiforms ...