| African Writing Systems - An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
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| 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.
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| Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India. - A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.
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| The Numbers in Various Writing Systems - Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
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| Orthography Examples - Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
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| A Study of Chinese Writing Systems - Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .
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| Blissymbolics Resources - Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
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| Ancient Mesoamerican Writing - Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
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| Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark - Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
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| Evolution of Alphabets - Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
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| Indian Alphabet Comparison - A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
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| The Alphabets of Ancient Italy - Etruscan, Umbrian, Oscan, and Volscian.
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| Ancient Scripts of the World - Indexed by region, with articles on writing systems, sounds and phonetics, historical linguistics, and related study materials.
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| 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.
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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.
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| 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.
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| Omniglot - Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.
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| Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon - The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
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| A Philippine Leaf - A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
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| Writing in Inuktitut - Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.
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| 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.
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| Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts - A collection of downloadable transliteration and romanization tables for non-Roman alphabets and scripts in .pdf format.
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| 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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| 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.
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| Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software - Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
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| The Schonfieldian Script Page - The internet's first resource on Hugh J. Schonfield's reformed Hebrew writing system.
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| 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.
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