The Greek alphabet arrived on the global stage and into everyday lexicon riding on waves of the novel coronavirus as the World Health Organization began naming variants in the Glagolitic script. As ...

Alpha, beta, omicron... These three words bring to mind whiffs of hydroalcoholic gel and the feel of a mask on the face. Indeed, the covid variants were named using Greek letters. Yet this alphabet ...

The relationship between the Greek and the Latin language will be the main topic of the FIlosofiko Kafeneio, the monthly gathering in Melbourne where thoughts and opinions are shared between the ...

This post originally appeared on the Fontyou blog, and has been adapted with permission. You may know the philosophy of Andy Warhol or the career path of Zinedine Zidane from A to Z. But do you know ...

The alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in ancient Egypt who turned elaborate hieroglyphs into basic letters 4,000 years ago, a study claimed. In 2006, Egyptologist Orly Goldwasser ...

Words found written in ink on a broken pottery sherd from Tel Lachish, Israel, represent a “missing link” in the history of the alphabet, write researchers in the journal Antiquity. Though the writing ...

Dato Dolidze’s fingers move slowly on the old handset as he writes a text message to his son. “My phone only has the Latin alphabet, so every time I text I need to translate the Georgian letters into ...