Discover how Chinese and Japanese writing systems work without alphabets, using symbols and syllabaries that represent ...

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Word. Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet, believed to have existed in the ...

We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or at least many of us think we do. Many cultures do not use a writing ...