Letters are symbols, just like emojis or crosswalk ... the Near East, and North Africa. The earliest example of the Latin alphabet in use is called the duenos inscription and comes from the ...

In a small West African village ... Archaeologists, for their part, have long understood the letters of the Roman alphabet originated in recognizable pictures of real things.

"ಠ ಠ what?" you might ask. There, you did it. The ಠ symbol is the Kannada letter for "t." Many of the other letters in this alphabet have the same "eyebrow" on the top. If you think of ...

Twenty-six years ago, two brothers decided their native language needed a new alphabet ... character set—a system of coding letters, numbers, and symbols that allows computers to render any ...

The Latin alphabet, they say ... These have sometimes been considered ideographies (letters, symbols or signs used to represent whole ideas) similar to the Adinkra symbols of west Africa that have ...

In our series of letters from African journalists ... arrived with their Roman script and its A-Z alphabet. Among others, Swahili in East Africa, Tamashek, the language of the Tuaregs in North ...

spoken by the Fulani people of West Africa. They have launched ADLam Display, which is a development of the Pulaar alphabet. “ADLaM, the acronym, A, D, L, M, Alkule Dandayɗe Leñol Mulugol ...