Scientists at the University of Sharjah report that they have developed a new machine-learning system designed to overcome challenges encountered in the diacritization of Arabic texts. The system ...

A-B-C-D-E-F-G ... This famous sequence of letters known to much of the world dates back to the 16th century BC. A fairly small group of traders and merchants known as ...

Writing is traditionally regarded as one of the requirements for a society to be considered as a civilization. Various writing systems have been invented by the great civilizations of the world, one ...

Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native speakers and 200 million to 250 million non-native speakers. Modern Standard ...

The FA9LA isn't a typo or a catchy title. The 9 replaces an Arabic letter for a strong "s" sound, a trend from Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. In Bahraini slang FASLA means fun or party. So, the ...

Abu Dhabi, UAE: Global technology group, e&, today announced the launch of a new free keyboard designed to bring the Arabic language back to everyday digital communication. Instead of asking users to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An inscription written in the Proto-Sinaitic Script, the direct precursor to the Phoenician consonantal alphabet. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain To understand why the Phoenician script was ...