The Rohingya — an oppressed Muslim minority group in Myanmar — might soon be able to use their language in emails, texts and on social media. The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit in charge of ...

While the Rohingya people have experienced a violent oppression in Myanmar, they could be getting a new tool to preserve their cultural identity: a digital language. The Unicode Consortium, the ...

The Rohingya language remained an oral tradition until the 1980s when Mohammad Hanif, an Islamic scholar, developed a script based on Arabic letters and a set of decimal numbers.

Muhammad Rafki Syukri, the Protection Associate at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said the agency would provide Rohingya language translators and counseling to determine if they ...

Of a total of 1.1 million Rohingya that remained in Burma despite repeated waves of violence since the late 1970s, ... they developed a unique language that is not mutually intelligible with Bengali.

Sahat met Hasson two years ago at the Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre (RCMC) where he works, after recognizing him as the child in the photo taken by Kevin Frayer. “I found him to be smart and ...

Bangladesh and the Rohingya vehemently dispute Myanmar’s accusation, stating the Rohingya have been in Rakhine State for centuries. The Rohingya dress differently from others in the area and the ...

A United Nations agency is seeking information about the voyage of over 100 Rohingya Muslim refugees who landed on an Indonesian beach this week, and warned Tuesday that there will likely be more.

Rohingya boy learns language of photography Five years after a Pulitzer-Prize winning photo made him the face of the Rohingya refugee crisis, a young refugee has taken up a camera himself. By Kristy ...