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The study of writing systems and methods or rules of spelling.

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• 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 Dedicated to the Tengwar and Sarati writing systems, includes overviews and downloads for fonts and transcription utilities.
• 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.
• Ancient Scripts of the World Indexed by region, with articles on writing systems, sounds and phonetics, historical linguistics, and related study materials.
• Ancient Scripts of the World Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
• Blissymbolics Resources Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
• 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.
• 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.
• Evolution of Alphabets Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
• 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.
• Indian Language Alphabet Comparison Page Eden Golshani's website - charts showing all the letters of the Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, and Gujarati syllabaries.
• 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.
• Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
• 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.
• SYMBOLS.com Encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms.
• Symbols.com The world's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols, ranging from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
• Symbols.com An encyclopedia of over 2500 symbols. Search by keywords/concepts or by graphical attributes.
• Symbols.Com - Western Signs and Ideograms A large collection of symbols and signs found in Western Culture and esoteric schools of thought.
• 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.
• The Schonfieldian Script Page The internet's first resource on Hugh J. Schonfield's reformed Hebrew writing system.
• Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
• World Writing Systems - an introduction Very rich site on linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms and social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.
• Writing in Inuktitut Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.
• Writing System Topics by Vivian Cook 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.

 

 

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