How a history professor went down an 18-year-long rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines, hoping to save them before they ...

After the spread of Roman civilization during the expansionist years of the Roman Empire, Romance dialects grew to a position very much like that of the Chinese "dialects." Each region of the Roman ...

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

The Roman alphabet dominates the internet, especially web and email addresses, even though 150 scripts have been usable for addresses since 2009 Most websites still won’t load non-Roman scripts ...

An educational institution in Dalian in Northeast China’s liaoning province, has begun teaching foreigners the Chinese language using the letters of the Roman alphabet.

A real-life Rapunzel uses her flowing locks to spell out the Roman alphabet in ornate lowercase letters. Designer Shurong Diao, 24, decided to dispense with pens and brushes for the series, which ...

Pinyin is a writing system in the Mandarin Chinese language with the use of the Roman alphabet. In the form of such Romanization, the most used one is Hanyu Pinyin usually seen in learning materials.

For someone used to writing with the Latin alphabet, a language that uses a different writing system could make grasping a new language more difficult, Blanco says. Every part of language learning ...