Have you ever wondered where the letters we use every day come from? In this video, we’ll take a journey through time to explore the fascinating history of the alphabet! From ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to the Phoenician alphabet, and...

Your vowels were invented in Greece, giving birth to the first "true" alphabet. Watch as your new toga-clad friend turns your consonant abjad into a consonant-vowel alphabet. It's such a useful mapping of letters to sounds that neighbor...

Solresol, Esperanto, Karinthy, Swift, & Defoe -- some extra linguistic tidbits about constructed languages, connected to our video about Music ( Thank you to all...

¿Cuál es el origen de las letras que usamos todos los días? ¿Hau diferentes tipos de alfabetos?

The history of writing has evolved over time. It began with symbols, numbers, and pictograms in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt....

Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic evolved a unique way to write vowels... with consonants! See how in this episode of Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing. You're back in the ancient Middle East, where seemingly everyone's...