"How could something so old-fashioned as cursive grow more essential when robots are taking over the world?" Annie Holmquist ...

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among the latest states to require cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary schools.

Most of the world’s 7,000 languages build words by matching sounds to letters. Yet Chinese takes a different route - one that ...

Historians have observed that some letters in the Armenian, Georgian, and Caucasian Albanian alphabets closely resemble characters in Ethiopic, the ancient script of the Horn of Africa.

Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University have published a study in which, ...

The Armenian alphabet is the script developed for the writing of the Armenian language. This alphabetic writing system was developed during the 5th century AD and is still in use today. The Armenian ...

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...

The remote temple of Hathor at Serabit al-Khadim was more than a mine and a sanctuary—it was a crucible of civilization. Here, amidst the sacred turquoise mines that funded pharaohs from the Great ...

In this video, we break down Aurebesh, the writing system seen throughout the Star Wars universe. The guide shows how each symbol connects to a familiar English letter, making the alphabet easier to ...

The Polish alphabet has 32 letters, nine of which are unique. Considering that some of the letters form digraphs and even one trigraph, this adds up to a total of 17 signs, which you’ll unfortunately ...

In 2007, the mayor of a city in southeastern Türkiye mailed cards wishing his citizens a Happy Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Shortly after, charges were made against the mayor … for having used an ...