Ethiopia is the only country in Africa with its own alphabet ... consists of 26 letters all representing consonants, which may be transformed into syllabic symbols by the attachment of the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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 Fulani people of West Africa are the world’s largest ... wanted to do something about that, and “letter by letter”, they created an alphabet for their people. However, since the alphabet ...