Opening of the National Museum of Language

On May 3, 2008, the National Museum of Language opened in College Park, Maryland, with an exhibit called “Writing Language: Passing it on.” For the next year, the exhibit will be on display, encouraging visitors to learn about writing systems from around the world. They include languages that are written with letters from alphabets like Arabic, Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and those that use symbols from logographs like Chinese and Japanese...