Now this was and still is an unusual view because Chinese—with its 75,000 individual characters rather than an alphabet—had historically been ... number of letters that are ascenders (d b l ...

The upper and lowercase versions of the letter eth. | 1234qwer1234qwer4, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 Eth is kind of like the little brother to thorn.Originating from Irish, today it ...

Letters inscribed along the edges of this slate slab from the 5th century B.C. are closely related to the Phoenician alphabet, which was hugely influential Latin, Spanish and English writing systems.