Knowledge: graphemics and orthography
See Also:
- computers → software → globalization → character encoding
- science → social sciences → archaeology → topics → epigraphy
Links
- African Writing Systems
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html - An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
- Symbols
http://www.symbols.com/ - 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.
- Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2104/scripts.html - A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.
- The Numbers in Various Writing Systems
http://zompist.com/scripts.html - Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
- Orthography Examples
http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/examples.html - Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
- A Study of Chinese Writing Systems
http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/writesys.htm - Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .
- Ancient Mesoamerican Writing
http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/ancwrite-old.html - Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
- Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fonts/#myth - Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
- Evolution of Alphabets
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/ - Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
- Indian Alphabet Comparison
http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm - A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
- Ancient Scripts of the World
http://www.ancientscripts.com/ - Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
- The Origin of Writing
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8281/ - 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.
- Amanye Tenceli:The Writing Systems of Aman
http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/ - 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.
- A Short Presentation and Overview of the Rune alphabet, the Futhark
http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/viking_age/runes/overview.html - Contains a good discussion of the changes in the Norse Runic alphabet (the Futhark) over time.
- Omniglot
http://www.omniglot.com/ - Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.
- Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon
http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/spellit.html - The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
- A Philippine Leaf
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/ - A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
- Eskaya Script
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/mystery/eskaya.htm - Describes the Eskaya people of Bohol, and their writing, numerical, and calendar system, as well as links to information about other Philippine scripts.
- World Writing Systems
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writintro.htm - Features linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms, social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.
- Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software
http://www.naxidongba.com/ - Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
- C. C. Elian
http://www.ccelian.com - 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.
- Multilingual Computing
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=Links - 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.
- Blissymbolics Resources
http://www.blissymbolics.us/ - Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
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