In this 2019 photo, a sign for a museum in Bukhara is written in Latin-alphabet Uzbek, in Russian Cyrillic, and in English. Credit: Catherine Putz Subscribe for ads-free reading Members of the Senate ...

A, B, C, D, E, F, G – makes you want to hum the alphabet song. But there’s no real reason why people should learn these letters in this order. There are plenty of ...

The Latin alphabet’s letter A can be traced back to an Egyptian hieroglyph of an ox head; the letter M is believed to have its origins in a hieroglyph representing water. These pictograms are no ...

Turkish used to be written with the Arabic alphabet from about 900 to 1928. In order to increase literacy in the country and to modernize Turkey, the Latin alphabet was introduced and adopted after ...