The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

London researchers recently reconstructed large Roman plaster collection, revealing vibrant frescoes hidden for 1,800 years ...

Nestled on the coast of the island of Euboea (Evia), the ancient city of Eretria was one of the most influential centers in ...

It’s not pronounced /wuh/, like the whispering sound the letter brings to words like whale and wonder. W’s name isn’t tied to its sound at all—it’s a historical nod to its origins. So how did this ...

HANOI -- At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks of Vietnam's unique modern script, in part a ...

The Latin alphabet is gaining prominence in Ukraine and Belarus as a symbol of resistance to Russian influence and alignment with the West, according to a linguist.

Chinese scientists told the Post that publishing under just their pinyin name – in English-language journals in which Mandarin is represented in the Latin alphabet – was challenging when it ...

Unicode contains characters from various languages, including the Latin alphabet, but there are only four characters that have separate types registered in addition to 'uppercase' and 'lowercase'.

A Latin-based Kyrgyz alphabet proposed by Syrtbai Musaev It is based on the alphabet that was adapted by Kyrgyz linguist and politician Kasym Tynystanov and used in Kyrgyzstan from 1927 to 1940.