12480
Information on the 12480 alphanumeric writing system. including font downloads, a FAQ, and many charts and examples. |
A Philippine Leaf
A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines. |
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. |
A Study of Chinese Writing Systems
Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography . |
African Writing Systems
An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian). |
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. |
Ancient Mesoamerican Writing
Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites. |
Blissymbolic Bibliography
Bibliography on a symbol system that can be used to give the tools of language to severely handicapped children. |
Blissymbolics Resources
Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities. |
Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon
The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings. |
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. |
Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India.
A paper which examines the development of scripts in India. |
Indian Alphabet Comparison
A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani. |
ITRANS
Widely-used software for working with the writing systems of India (Devnagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu). |
Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software
Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba. |
Non-Roman Writing Systems and the Internet.
Links of use to students of non-Latin languages and graphemics. |
Omniglot
Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources. |
Orthography Examples
Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system. |
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. |
The Alphabets of Ancient Italy
Etruscan, Umbrian, Oscan, and Volscian. |
The Numbers in Various Writing Systems
Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign. |
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. |
Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts
A collection of downloadable transliteration and romanization tables for non-Roman alphabets and scripts in .pdf format. |
Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark
Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets. |
Writing in Inuktitut
Includes an interactive Inuit script generator. |
