Q is the least (or second least, depending on method of counting) frequently used letter in the English language. It usually occurs as the sequence “qu”, pronounced “kw” at the beginning of syllables, ...

KUALA LIPIS: Sultan of Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah said language and script are reflections of heritage, serving as the foundation of civilisation that must be ...

Researchers at the HSE Centre for Language and Brain used eye-tracking to examine how bilinguals switch between languages in response to context shifts. Script differences were found to slow down this ...

BAUBAU: In an eastern Indonesian village, schoolchildren scrawl the distinctive circles and lines of Hangul script on a whiteboard, but the language they are learning is not Korean. It is their own ...

October 9 is Hangul Day in South Korea, celebrating the Korean language script, while North Korea similarly marks Choson’gul Day on January 15 – the world’s only national holidays for a script. With ...

Prominent scripting languages, once viewed as the future of programming by offering ease of use, have slipped in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. Only Python and JavaScript still have ...

On Buton Island in eastern Indonesia, children in Baubau are using the Korean alphabet, Hangul, to learn their indigenous language. The Cia-Cia language, spoken by about 80,000 people in south-east ...

When Apple announces major new versions of macOS, the company often includes details not just about the next release but also about what will come further in the future. The first macOS 10.15 Beta ...