In addition, the laptop had to be adapted to one of eight languages and four alphabets.

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Ms Khan said that Indian languages use very similar alphabets and many of their letter sounds are much harsher than their Western counterparts.

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Computer scientist Ohta Masataka says the solution makes as little sense as giving the letters in the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets the same codes.

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But the real gem comes from Google Translate, which is already cornering the market with their online version, and is currently translating between 52 languages and multiple alphabets.

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Alphabets were foregone replaced by an emphasis on words.

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But most exciting were the dozens of square clay tablets inscribed with letters which, if Neolithic, predated by many millennia the Phoenician characters from which Western alphabets were supposed to have come making Glozel, not the Middle East, the cradle of Western civilisation.

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He's convinced he will live and draw in Syria again -- that people in his country, a cradle of civilization that invented one of the world's first alphabets, are no longer afraid and eventually will triumph over the regime that would crush their spirits and their art.

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