News tagged with alphabetic scripts
Multilingual web address system approved
The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more ...
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading
Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language. Given that the first alphabetic ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Wired youth forget how to write in China and Japan
Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system.
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Chinese speakers get easier access to Internet
The web will soon be a lot more accessible for more than a billion people after the body that runs the Internet's naming system gave the green light for the use of Chinese script.
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Computer automatically deciphers ancient language
In his 2002 book Lost Languages, Andrew Robinson, then the literary editor of the London Times' higher-education supplement, declared that "successful archaeological decipherment has turned out to require ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 30, 2010 |
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Internet agency approves domains in native scripts
(AP) -- Four countries and two territories have won preliminary approval to have Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts as early as this summer.
Mar 24, 2010 |
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4 countries clear hurdle for non-Latin Web names
(AP) -- Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to win preliminary approval for Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts.
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Internet set for change with non-English addresses
(AP) -- The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages ...
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Funerary monument reveals Iron Age belief that the soul lived in the stone
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Earliest known Hebrew text in Proto-Canaanite script discovered in area where David slew Goliath
The earliest known Hebrew text written in a Proto-Canaanite script has been discovered by Hebrew University archaeologists in an ancient city in the area where David slew Goliath – the earliest Judean city found to date. ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 03, 2008 |
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It’s The Way It’s Written...
Forensic experts believe a Punjabi equivalent of English pangram ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ could help profile the criminal authors of documents.
Sep 18, 2007 |
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The Web: Arabic-language Internet
The Egyptian Tourist Authority this week launched a new Web site, but the domain name, www.Egypt.travel, like all others in the Arab world, is in English, not Arabic. That may change in the coming years, however, experts ...
Mar 29, 2006 |
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