The one thing that has stood the test of time though, is the alphabet that the language is written in. Adopted around the 700s, the English alphabet is based on Latin script and has 26 letters ...

To preserve the culture and native language of their people, the Barry brothers designed a handwritten form of the Pulaar alphabet in 1989.

The NATO alphabet remains ubiquitous in ceremony — it comes up often in The New York Times’s crossword entries — but in practice, it’s somewhat niche.

Inuktitut—which can use one compound word to say the equivalent of an English sentence—is built on consonant/vowel pairs. In order to accommodate the language’s sounds and structure, a new ...

You can't be expected to memorize them all, of course. And you don't have to. Just keep an eye out for their signature looks — and maybe use one or two mental tricks to help you remember.