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 ...

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 ...

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.

You know the alphabet—it’s one of the first things you’re taught in school. But did you know that they’re not teaching you all of the alphabet? There are quite a few letters (defined ...

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 ...

The use of letters of the alphabet as political symbols is a little unusual for the simple reason that individual letters aren’t meant to have any intrinsic meaning of their own. They’re ...

Others include letters drawn from the ancient runic alphabet ... of extremist symbols, many of which are built around racist stereotypes that have been spread about African Americans and ...

"This is an ampersand and believe it or not it used to be the 27th letter in the alphabet, you see back in the day this symbol came after the letter Z and signified the word 'and'," zachdfilms3 ...

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 ...