The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks ...

In the mid 1970s when Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed changing the Greek alphabet to Latin and making the Greek language phonetic, the minister of culture and a Parliament member ...

Did you know that there is a military alphabet? This is a special phonetic alphabet that is used by the military to communicate over radios and other devices. The military alphabet was created in ...

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 ...

The commission reviewed the 34-letter Latin-based alphabet proposed in 1991, accommodating the phonetic diversity of Turkic languages. Following meetings in Astana on May 29, 2023, and Baku on May 6, ...

Kazakh officials have argued that the Cyrillic alphabet distorts the Kazakh language’s phonetic structure and tradition. Advocates of Latinization also claimed that the transition to a Latin ...

Participants reviewed the Latin-based Turkic alphabet project initially ... It is noted that each letter of the proposed alphabet represents different phonetic sounds found in Turkic languages. “The ...

And Ceti's researchers say they, too, have used AI to decode a "sperm whale phonetic alphabet". In 2005, Shane Gero, biology lead for Ceti, founded The Dominica Sperm Whale Project to study the ...

We string together sounds – or phonemes – to create our sentences, and the way we do so has varied over the millennia; from Egyptian hieroglyphs and East-Asian characters to the Arabic and Latin ...