From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

For a long time, anthropologists believed that a written language was a hallmark of a society being complex or 'advanced.' A new study on precolonial Mesoamerican societies shows that you can have a ...

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The late, great sinologist Simon Leys once pointed out a peculiar paradox. China is the world’s oldest surviving civilization, and yet very little material of its past remains—far less than in Europe ...

Writing direction is one of the most basic features of any script used by a language. Most of the world's languages have been written from left to right (LTR), but a number of prominent languages have ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

When we think of writing systems we likely think of an Alphabetic writing system, where each symbol (letter) in the alphabet ...