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Discover how to create a stunning decorative art piece using wooden Arabic letters and fabric in this step-by-step DIY art tutorial. Watch as intricate calligraphy and textured materials combine with ...

From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that made their way into English?

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One of the highest-profile bets on artificial intelligence just came from a most unlikely place. Berkshire Hathaway Inc., led for six decades by value-conscious investor Warren Buffett, disclosed last ...

The letter x used in maths problems has a fascinating history tracing back to Arabic origins. Its adoption reflects a unique cultural exchange shaping modern algebra. Every student, at some point, has ...

Have you ever wondered how some languages work without an alphabet? While most of us read using letters like A to Z, Chinese and Japanese follow a completely different system. Instead of spelling ...

Mandarin Chinese and Japanese don't rely on A-Z style alphabets. Chinese uses characters tied to meaning while Japanese blends characters and syllabaries. Together they show how writing can evolve far ...

Introduction: The involvement of phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatized naming (RAN) and letter knowledge (LK) in Arabic reading achievement is well established, but evidence for a unique ...

The coolest letter in the alphabet: When we learn the letters of the English alphabet, we just remember them in order, from A to Z. But have you ever thought about whether some letters are just ...

Statue of Cyril and Methodius statue on Radhost in Czechia. Credit: Valtameri, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 The Cyrillic alphabet, the script famously used by Russians (and others), is one of the ...