For centuries, historians and linguists have highlighted a deceptively simple question, what is the oldest alphabet in the world? While early writing systems like cuneiform and hieroglyphs are far ...

Today, after spending two weeks on Punjabi and its writing system Gurmukhi, it’s time to have a little look at some of the terms I have thrown around in those blogs. Off There are many different ...

The early history of the alphabet may require rewriting. Four clay artefacts found at an ancient site in Syria are incised with what is potentially the earliest alphabetic writing ever found. The ...

Handwriting is so unique to an individual, it can be used in court to identify suspects and victims. But what would happen if you took all the different ways people around the world write the Latin ...

New research confirms that letter shapes become predictably simpler over time to make reading and writing more efficient. The first letter in the English alphabet is famously thought to be descended ...