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.

When a script isn’t an alphabet To understand why the Phoenician script was not a true alphabet, we need to understand what a true alphabet is. A true alphabet is a writing system with individual ...

The Organization of Turkic States has agreed to adopt a common Latin alphabet, but it remains a sensitive topic in Kyrgyzstan, the only member state that has not decided to make the switch.

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to a Latin alphabet is intertwined with issues of national identity, geopolitical shifts, and post-colonial discourse.

The connection of this historic alphabet to the Greek language is profound and goes back centuries. The Cyrillic alphabet has been the script with which over 250 million people across Europe and Asia ...

The politics of early dot-matrix printing—this embedded Latin-alphabet centrism—ran even deeper, as discovered in the early work of Chan-hui Yeh, the developer of the 120-shift IPX device.

5. Malay (Jawi alphabet) The Malaysian language can be written with the Latin alphabet or in Jawi, a form of Arabic script. Here a group of cuties sings the Jawi “Alif Ba Ta.” 6. Thai ...

A look at the theories of the origins of Ogham, how the ancient Irish alphabet works, and the work that's occurring to preserve it.

The Chinese script is very well suited to the nature of the Chinese language, but not so wonderful for writing languages with more complex grammatical systems, like Japanese and Korean. Korea is ...

The language of the Cia-Cia ethnic group in southeast Sulawesi Province’s Baubau has no written form and the syllable-based tongue does not readily translate to the Latin alphabet often used to ...

The Latin script will place Kazakhstan alongside western countries, not to mention other Turkic-language states that have adopted that alphabet. Some Kazakhs would like the reform to proceed faster.