A Hebrew-speaker should be able to read the bottom half or the words, and an Arabic-speaker should be able to read the top half. For example, the Aravrit word for “peace” would say “salaam ...

In the late 19th century, Javal discovered that people can decipher words in the Latin alphabet by seeing only the top half of the letters. Lavi Turkenich did her own research and found that ...

TEL AVIV — Middle East peace may remain out of reach, but at least the Hebrew and Arabic languages have found a compromise.Israeli typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has created a stylized ...

With Hebrew below and Arabic above, ... Turkenich combined each of the 22 letters in Hebrew with each of the 29 in Arabic to create an Aravrit alphabet with 638 characters.

This will include 28 characters in the Arabic alphabet and 22 in the Hebrew alphabet. ICANN hopes the new policy will make the world wide web more accessible to billions of people worldwide.

The same is true for Arabic - and, as Ms Turkenich found, the bottom half of the Hebrew alphabet. She eventually created 638 characters which cover all possible letter combinations. open image in ...

The most famous case of script change is, of course, Turkey's dropping of the Arabic alphabet for the Roman one in 1928. ... Hebrew script, because of its historical symbolism, ...

In Lebanon, an Arabic language festival encourages children to learn the Arabic alphabet. ... Evidence from trilingual Arabic speakers tested in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.