The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the symbols found on many other ...

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 ...

He says if actors are speaking in Hindi, the script should also be written in Devanagari, not Roman letters. The actor adds that while films are made in Hindi, much of the work on set still happens in ...

The Twipra Students’ Federation (TSF) on Friday sat on an indefinite strike demanding the Roman script be allowed for the Kokborok language, spoken by a majority of the indigenous community in the ...

Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,600 Proto-Elamite inscriptions, but only about 43 in Linear Elamite, scattered widely across Iran. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

As a teenager, Kaoru Akagawa couldn’t read her Japanese grandmother’s letters, but she put it down to her unclear handwriting. Over a decade later, Kaoru realized her grandmother hadn’t been a poor ...

Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa shakes hands with a winning student in the 2023 Best Mongolian Calligrapher competition, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Jan. 11, 2024. Credit: Office of the President of ...