December’s announcement of the 2026 Arabic Booker longlist shows how Arabic fiction is moving inward, privileging memory, ...

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Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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More and more women seem to be sporting long, luscious manes. Our critic offers some possible explanations along with a brief history of hair. By Vanessa Friedman It is true that we are in a Rapunzel ...

If you spend enough time online, you're bound to come come across a sentence like this: "Yr brn cn rd wrds wtht vwls." It looks like nonsense at first glance, but after a moment, you probably read it ...

The human brain can make sense of sentences — even when the vowels are missing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "Ths sntnc s ...

Scientists develop an advanced automated system of vowel sounds that can inform learners and speakers how a letter should be pronounced in Arabic. SHARJAH, EMIRATE OF ...

A newly developed automated system can add vowel sings to computerized Arabic texts, enabling learners and speakers to read them in an easy and accurate manner, scientists reveal. In linguistic jargon ...

Did you know that the ancient scrolls of the Torah don’t contain any vowels? Unlike English, where vowels are explicitly represented as letters (A, E, I, O, U) and are fundamental to every word, ...

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