From my perspective, there’s almost nothing more thrilling than learning to use a new writing system. You’re gaining access to a whole secret code that many others cannot penetrate. The romance of ...

The English “H,” for example, makes a “ha” sound, but the same symbol “H” is pronounced as “en” in Russian; in the Cyrillic ...

Phonetically, there are more than 20 vowel sounds in the Danish language. Meanwhile, written Danish has three more vowels than the English alphabet: Æ, Ø and Å. The Æ most often sounds like the E in ...

Move the pointer over the row and column headings to see descriptions of the manners and places of articulation. Then click on the IPA symbols for each English sound to open a popup window with sample ...

postulated that the individual symbols in Maya glyphs stood for phonetic sounds, much like English letters do. Knorosov knew that Maya had too many glyphs to be a true alphabet but too few for ...

Just like in English, Spanish has its own sounds and ways to pronounce letters. Spanish is an exciting language to learn but there are a few exception sounds you need to be aware of: You might ...

In an atmosphere rich in simple printed texts and in reading aloud, small children make a wondrous associative leap from knowing the alphabet ... the English language's forty-four sounds; then ...

For example, the letter “b” in English represents ... letter of the alphabet. Chinese writing is logographic, that is, every symbol either represents a word or a minimal unit of meaning. When I write ...

Sharjah University scientists design artificial intelligence tool to identify 19 different Arabic dialects spoken in 22 ...

Mining company BHP Group Ltd (NYSE:BHP) has flagged an acute shortage of copper metal as global Big Techs, including Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG ...