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Graphemics and Orthography:

African Writing Systems

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

http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html

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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.

http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/

Ancient Mesoamerican Writing

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

http://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.

http://www.ancientscripts.com/

Blissymbolics Resources

Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.

http://www.blissymbolics.us/

C. C. Elian

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.

http://www.ccelian.com

Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon

The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.

http://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.

http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/mystery/eskaya.htm

Evolution of Alphabets

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

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/

Graphemics and Orthography

A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2104/scripts.html

Indian Alphabet Comparison

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

http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm

Multilingual Computing

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/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=Links

The Numbers in Various Writing Systems

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

http://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.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8281/

Orthography Examples

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

http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/examples.html

A Philippine Leaf

A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.

http://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.

http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/viking_age/runes/overview.html

A Study of Chinese Writing Systems

Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .

http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/writesys.htm

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.

http://www.symbols.com/

Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark

Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.

http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fonts/#myth

World Writing Systems

Features linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms, social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writintro.htm