The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic script to the Latin-based style favoured by the West. What are the economics of such a change? The change, announced on a ...

Worried that the future of the Cyrillic alphabet could be under threat, the Serbian authorities will introduce fines and benefits to defend it against the Latin script, media have reported.

DeepMind Technologies, part of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, has created an AI that can be used to draft scripts for film and stage plays. Called Dramatron, the writing tool aims to ...

From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

In the wake of the International Year of Indigenous Languages in 2019 and the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032, many Africans have started to take a wide range of actions to ...

To preserve Wancho language spoken in several parts of northeastern states, linguist student Banwang Losu has developed an independent Wancho script. Wancho, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the ...

Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa shakes hands with a winning student in the 2023 Best Mongolian Calligrapher competition, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Jan. 11, 2024. Credit: Office of the President of ...

Alphabet is trading like it lives in its own universe right now, and investors are trying to figure out how the stock got so far ahead of its fundamentals. The company’s market value has shot up after ...

The Greek alphabet, traditionally believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing reevaluation thanks to groundbreaking research at Leiden University. The writing system is ...