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Variations of the alphabet—now known as Phoenician, from the Greek word for the Canaanite region—have been found from Turkey to Spain, and survive until today in the form of the letters used ...

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons ...

This new kind of writing first appeared around 1,800 B.C.E.—centuries before the Phoenicians, often credited with inventing the alphabet, began to standardize letter forms around 1,100 B.C.E ...

Peter Dazeley/GettyImages. An abecedarius is a specific type of acrostic poem in which successive lines or verses begin with each letter of the alphabet in order. Geoffrey Chaucer’s 23-verse ...

Alphabetic writing systems are “very different” from non-alphabetic writing systems and much more streamlined and flexible, as “most alphabets consist of twenty or thirty letters,” he said.

Letters inscribed along the edges of this slate slab from the 5th century B.C. are closely related to the Phoenician alphabet, which was hugely influential Latin, Spanish and English writing systems.

There are not one but three writing systems that work together in the Japanese alphabet system: namely Hiragana, Katakana & Kanji. Here’s an in-depth guide.

News; Weird News; Parenting 'I want to use all 26 letters of the alphabet when I name my kids - it's so special' A creative thinker has wowed people after sharing her unusual plan to use every ...