Twenty-six years ago, two brothers decided their native language needed a new alphabet. The scripts they’d been using to read and write their native Fulani, an African language spoken by at least 40 ...

The number has not been consistent throughout its existence. Russians use an alphabet based on the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 21 consonants, ten vowels and two signs.

The Arabic and Simplified Chinese scripts aren't in danger of going anywhere anytime soon, but the same can't be said for Balinese, Mali, Pahawh (or Pahauh) Hmong, and the other 100-some alphabets ...

The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic script to the Latin-based style favoured by the West. What are the economics of such a change? The change, announced on a ...

The early Greek alphabet was painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 ...

BISHKEK -- The five countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) have overcome years of disagreements about letters and diacritical marks to agree on a common Latin alphabet for their ...

It isn’t just languages that are endangered: dozens of alphabets around the world are at risk. And they could have even more to tell us. On his first two days of school, in a village above the ...

It isn’t just languages that are endangered: dozens of alphabets around the world are at risk. And they could have even more to tell us. Eventually Nyeu managed to escape this cycle of bewilderment ...