Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in ...

Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in the world, estimated to be spoken by more than 1.2 billion people in countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. With so many ...

Chinese civilisation can be dated back to the second millennium BC near the Yellow River, where the earliest undisputed archaeological evidence of the Shang (circa 1600BC to 1045BC), one of the first ...

Understanding Logographic Systems What is a Logographic System? Traditionally, languages are thought to require an alphabet for written communication, consisting of letters like A, B, and C. However, ...