The Russian press often presents Latinization in Kazakhstan through a politicized lens, relying on conspiratorial framing, ...

High-resolution photography at the turquoise mines of Serabit el-Khadem in Egypt’s south-central Sinai Peninsula highlighted ...

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

Cultural Renaissance and the Birth of the Cyrillic Alphabet Beyond the political and spiritual dimensions of Christianization, Boris I’s reign also catalyzed a cultural renaissance.

The Turkic Academy, which coordinated the Latin-based Common Turkic Alphabet project, published the Declaration on Common Turkic Alphabet on Sept.16, following the Turkic World Common Alphabet ...

The origins of the Cyrillic alphabet Even one who is not a language expert can instantly see that the Cyrillic alphabet is different to that of English. It resembles Greek and includes elements of ...

"Today, the Cyrillic alphabet is not the property of the Bulgarian people alone. From our lands, the letters now illuminate a much wider spiritual space, uniting hundreds of millions of people. Having ...

Used by over 250 million people across the Balkans, Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic, Central Asia and as far as Mongolia, the Cyrillic alphabet, almost unique among the world’s alphabets, has its own ...

Used by over 250 million people across the Balkans, Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic, Central Asia and as far as Mongolia, the Cyrillic alphabet, almost unique among the world’s alphabets, has its own ...

In 1946, Mongolia announced that it would change its official alphabet to Cyrillic, ceasing the use of bichig. Mongolia’s government continues to use the Cyrllic alphabet to this day.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Who created the alphabet and decided its ...