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- 12480 - Information on the 12480 alphanumeric writing system. including font downloads, a FAQ, and many charts and examples.
www.12480.8m.com
- A Philippine Leaf - A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
www.bibingka.com/dahon
- A Short Presentation and Overview of the Rune alphabet, the Futhark - Contains a good discussion of the changes in the Norse Runic alphabet (the Futhark) over time.
www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/viking_age/runes/overview.html
- A Study of Chinese Writing Systems - Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .
www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/writesys.htm
- African Writing Systems - An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html
- Amanye Tenceli:The Writing Systems of Aman - Complete descriptions of the Sarati and Tengwar scripts created by J.R.R. Tolkien for his celebrated artificial languages. Also includes fonts and specialized writing programs.
hem.passagen.se/mansb/at
- Ancient Mesoamerican Writing - Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/ancwrite-old.html
- Ancient Scripts of the World - Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
www.ancientscripts.com
- Blissymbolic Bibliography - Bibliography on a symbol system that can be used to give the tools of language to severely handicapped children.
home.earthlink.net/~crockford/blissbib.html
- Blissymbolics Resources - Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
www.symbols.net/blissre.htm
- Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon - The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
www.creativeideasforyou.com/spellit.html
- Eskaya Script - Describes the Eskaya people of Bohol, and their writing, numerical, and calendar system, as well as links to information about other Philippine scripts.
www.bibingka.com/dahon/mystery/eskaya.htm
- Evolution of Alphabets - Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin
- Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India. - A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2104/scripts.html
- Indian Alphabet Comparison - A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm
- ITRANS - Widely-used software for working with the writing systems of India (Devnagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu).
www.aczone.com/itrans
- Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software - Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
www.naxidongba.com
- Non-Roman Writing Systems and the Internet. - Links of use to students of non-Latin languages and graphemics.
www.siu.edu/~lmc/non-roman.html
- Orthography Examples - Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/examples.html
- Symbols - Encyclopedia of western signs and ideograms. More than 2,500 signs, from ideograms to graffiti, arranged into groups according to their graphic characteristics. Their histories, uses, and meanings.
www.symbols.com
- The Alphabets of Ancient Italy - Etruscan, Umbrian, Oscan, and Volscian.
www.netaxs.com/~salvucci/VTLalphabet.html
- The Numbers in Various Writing Systems - Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
zompist.com/scripts.html
- The Origin of Writing - Post-structural analysis of the non-metrical image writing used by the Aboriginal Peoples of North America during pre-Columbian times, a system based upon material production within a visual context.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8281
- Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts - A collection of downloadable transliteration and romanization tables for non-Roman alphabets and scripts in .pdf format.
homepage.mac.com/sirbinks
- Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark - Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fonts/#myth
- What's the Difference between Speech and Writing? - A linguistic comparison of spoken and written language.
www.lsadc.org/Bright.html
- Writing in Inuktitut - Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.
www.halfmoon.org/inuit.html
- Omniglot - Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.
www.omniglot.com
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