New discoveries challenge old ideas about the earliest alphabets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With so many ancient texts ...

Assyrian Christian stele from Southern China in 3 languages (Syriac, Uyghur and Chinese) and two scripts (Syriac and Chinese). The Mongolian government on March 18 announced plans to restore the use ...

Nüshu literally means "women's writing" in Chinese, and just as its name implies, the writing system including about 500 frequently used characters has been seen as the world's only script designed ...

Twenty-six years ago, two brothers decided their native language needed a new alphabet. The scripts they’d been using to read and write their native Fulani, an African language spoken by at least 40 ...