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  • African Writing Systems

    An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).

    www.library.cornell.edu

  • 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

  • Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India.

    A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.

    www.geocities.com

  • The Numbers in Various Writing Systems

    Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.

    zompist.com

  • Orthography Examples

    Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.

    logos.uoregon.edu

  • A Study of Chinese Writing Systems

    Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .

    www.humboldt.edu

  • Ancient Mesoamerican Writing

    Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.

    pages.prodigy.com

  • Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark

    Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.

    www.csupomona.edu

  • Evolution of Alphabets

    Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.

    www.wam.umd.edu

  • Indian Alphabet Comparison

    A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.

    www.ukindia.com

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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