The number has not been consistent throughout its existence. Russians use an alphabet based on the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet has 33 letters: 21 consonants, ten vowels and two signs.

The early history of the alphabet may require rewriting. Four clay artefacts found at an ancient site in Syria are incised with what is potentially the earliest alphabetic writing ever found. The ...

The birth of writing and the first alphabet were among the world’s most vital inventions. Writing shaped our world and the rise of human knowledge, from the trading of goods to tales of ancient ...

A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way — by someone scrolling through social media. The inscription, on a slate slab unearthed in Spain, is ...

After almost 80 years with an alphabet imposed by Moscow, Kazakhstan is getting its own script and possibly a new name. President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed off on the new, much shorter set of ...

Historians distinguish between prehistory and the history of primitive writing, but disagree on when prehistory becomes history and when proto-writing becomes real "writing", as this definition is ...