Perhaps the most well-known of the lost Greek letters is Digamma. Shaped like an F or a modern-day gamma with an extra stem, Digamma represented the “w” sound. Its use was widespread in early dialects ...

Prepare to dive deep into the fascinating history of the letters G, J, U, W, and Y. Ever wondered why these seemingly ordinary letters have such a peculiar backstory? This exploration uncovers the ...

In the mid-1800s, the invention of the Braille system radically changed the lives of millions of visually impaired people around the world — but how much do you know about the person who created it?

The French then spread the Latin alphabet while training the civil servants who helped them govern Indochina, explained Khanh-Minh Bui, a doctoral student at the University of California ...

As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, a quiet cultural shift is unfolding in the region's written language—marked by a move away from the Cyrillic script in favour of Latin letters, says Maria ...

In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese researchers when their names are presented solely in pinyin and might be shared by other researchers whose names are ...

In other words, Devanagari does not need a Roman walking stick. For most Indians, the association of the Latin script with the English language is fastened to the colonial politics of the English ...

The Crimean Tatar language in Latin is now available in Google Translate. Source: Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, on Facebook Details: This function was previously ...

BISHKEK -- The five countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) have overcome years of disagreements about letters and diacritical marks to agree on a common Latin alphabet for their ...

In Kazakhstan, talk about switching from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet has been ongoing since the 1990s. However, only in the late 2010s, did the Kazakh government officially initiate a ...