Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "My old way of working [on a script] was irrelevant," Sian Heder writes of crafting "CODA," a film about a Deaf family. "I was ...

Researchers at the HSE Centre for Language and Brain used eye-tracking to examine how bilinguals switch between languages in response to context shifts. Script differences were found to slow down this ...

A forgotten proposal from a Mysuru seminar reopens debate on whether Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam can share a streamlined writing system ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be ...

Researchers have partially deciphered the "unknown Kushan script" — a writing system that has puzzled linguists since it was first found in the 1950s. The researchers decoded the ancient text using ...

The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, the Korean script. By Muktita Suhartono Reporting from Baubau, Indonesia ...

If you are writing a program that has a technical user base, it is a nice touch to make the program scriptable. In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your ...

Children sit cross-legged on plastic mats, their eyes fixed on a blackboard. Chalk in hand, retired schoolteacher and poet ...