Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

From my perspective, there’s almost nothing more thrilling than learning to use a new writing system. You’re gaining access to a whole secret code that many others cannot penetrate. The romance of ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in ...

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Aboriginal message sticks, traditional tools of communication, offer a glimpse into a sophisticated and unique form of communication.

What followed was the realization that writing a FUSE filesystem, particularly in Python, isn’t as complicated as it may seem. Really, through the power of open source, the heavy lifting has ...

The team said Ogham was highly unusual among world writing systems, consisting solely of parallel lines in groups of one to five. She said the discovery took her by surprise, but finds like this ...

This Braille Literacy Month, Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave podcast reports on the writing system and how some researchers are working to lessen the national shortage of qualified braille educators.