NICOSIA (Reuters Life!) - Authorities in northern Cyprus believe they have found an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus. The manuscript was found ...

For those who have learnt foreign languages, the presence of a loanword can be both comforting and surreal. In languages written in non-Roman scripts, a borrowed word – take computer as an example – ...

Cambridge University manuscript specialist, Dr Chip Coakley has identified what may be the world's earliest example of a question mark. The symbol in question is two dots, one above the other, similar ...

KOZHIKODE: Consumed by time, Suriyani Malayalam, an early Malayalam dialect wrote in a variant form of Syriac script, might be taken off the shelves soon if Anshuman Pandey’s ambitious project reaches ...