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An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
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African Writing Systems A collaborative project with the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library What are Writing Systems? Writing Systems are components of knowledge systems. By definition, they are philosophical because they assist in synthesizing ideas, thoughts, and deeds through the use of signs,...A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.
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Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India. Until the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization in 1920, ancient India seemingly had two main scripts in which languages were written, Brahmi and Kharosti. The Brahmi script developed under Semitic influence around 7th c. BC, and was originally written...Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
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The Numbers in Various Writing Systems As a supplement to my list of the numbers from 1 to 10 in over a thousand languages, here are the numbers written in a few native writing systems, plus ASL. Note that these are the names of the numbers,...Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
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Orthography Examples Buginese is spoken by about 4 million people in Southern Sulawesi (Celebes The Buginese-Mascassarese syllabary is based on an Indian model. Attempts have been made in the twentieth century to write Buginese in the Roman alphabet. KHMER (Cambodian nbsp Cambodian...Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .
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A Study of Chinese Writing Systems Chinese orthography by limiting our endeavor to only one of the six categories of logographs, the phonograms (Wang, 1981 Logographs are identifying symbols showing a system of relationships between things. One principle divides the logographs into six categories according to...Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
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Blissymbolics Resources Blissymbolics is able to represent virtually any idea or concept by combining and recombining a relatively small set of basic symbols. The bulk of these lessons will involve showing you how the basic symbols combine to create compound symbols. http...Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
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Ancient Mesoamerican Writing (sans frames) View this page using frames Last Update: 9 September 1997 The symbolism and iconography of writing systems found throughout the ancient world are fascinating, but none more than those that evolved in ancient Mesoamerica. Developing independently of Mediterranean or Asian...Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
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Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark Ancient alphabets and mythic symbols Scientific and technical fonts Font installation, creation, utilities, and links Awards Ancient alphabets and mythic symbols Celtic ogham (Windows, Macintosh Carved on stones by Celts in Britain and Eire; representation of an older alphabet consisting...Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
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index.html University of Maryland index.html University of Maryland Robert Fradkin RobertFradkin Adjunct Assistant Professor of Latin Department of Classics 2407 Marie Mount Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-935-0053 Fax: 301-935-0054 rf87@umail.umd.edu Rsum Latin Language and Classical Linguistics Evolution of Alphabets Russian Language and Slavic Linguistics Hebrew...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.
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The Origin of Writing I have now composed a new Origin of Writing site under my own domain. I will eventually move the content from this, my old Geocities site to that location; but for now, you can visit either site. My new site,...Contains a good discussion of the changes in the Norse Runic alphabet (the Futhark) over time.
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A short presentation and overview of the Rune alphabet, the futhark Runes has fascinated people all over the world through several centuries. Most scientist thinks that the germanic tribes from the start used the same rune alphabet and that this alphabet probably has been derived from the greek and latin alphabets....Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.
http://www.omniglot.com/
The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/spellit.html
A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
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A Philippine Leaf The pages of a book are called leaves and small sheets with writing are called leaflets because more than a millennium ago, documents were written on leaves. In southern India and Southeast Asia, they were written on palm leaves. A...Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.
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Write in Inuit (Eskimo) Inuktituk is the language of the Inuit (sometimes called Eskimo) people, who inhabit the far northern reaches of the globe. Like Mayan hieroglyphics, their writing uses symbols that represent syllables; unlike Mayan, it also has symbols for consonants, which makes...Describes the Eskaya people of Bohol, and their writing, numerical, and calendar system, as well as links to information about other Philippine scripts.
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The Eskaya Script Bohol is an interesting group of people who claim to have direct connections to ancient kingdoms in Butuan, the island of Sumatra, and the Middle East. Although they appear to have very little cultural and physical differences with their neighbors,...Comprehensive site that focuses on english orthography but also gives more general linguistic information. Contains work-in-progress version of a book on english orthography and many humorous examples of spelling mistakes. Suitable for both linguists and the broad public.
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~vcook/wstopics.htm
Very rich site on linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms and social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.
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World Writing Systems an Introduction Introduction to a book on Writing Systems of the World No country is locked into its orthography, any more than it should be locked into any other aspect of its history. Sometimes liberation is possible in practice as well as...Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
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Naxi Dongba Pictographs write by EDongba ...The internet's first resource on Hugh J. Schonfield's reformed Hebrew writing system.
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The Schonfieldian Script Page Schonfieldian letters in regular and oblique/italic forms. Top: Hebrew/Assyrian (New Peninim center and bottom: Schonfieldian capitals and small letters (original font by the author What is the Schonfieldian script? In his 1932 book The New Hebrew Typography (London: Denis Archer...An alternative writing system examplified through art works that are visually similar to Asian and Middle Eastern systems, but based on Western concepts of language as it relates to perception and the implied ability to experience and control reality.
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The Elian Script Humans are what happens when rocks develop nervous systems 12/30.48cm x 9/22.86cm, 2003. Indian ink. Nothing Without Structure Matters (Detail) 32 81cm x 20 51cm, 2005. Graphite. Pieces 2005 2004 Drawings 2003 Writings Pièces d Oeuvres 2002Sketch Notebooks 1990s-2000Archive Drawings...Links to sites of interest in multilingual computing and other closely related areas of scripts and languages as well as a guide for finding language fonts on the Internet.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scrip...ge.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=Links
Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
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AncientScripts.com I still have hundreds of emails that I haven't replied yet. Sorry! May/27/2003: New page: Pahlavi more news My Notes Back in 1996, I created the original Ancient Scripts web site during the wee hours of the morning. I have...