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African Writing Systems (Popularity:  )
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html
An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
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Symbols (Popularity: )
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 ...
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Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India. (Popularity: )
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2104/scripts.html
A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.
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The Numbers in Various Writing Systems (Popularity: )
http://zompist.com/scripts.html
Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
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Orthography Examples (Popularity: )
http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/examples.html
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 (Popularity: )
http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/writesys.htm
Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .
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Blissymbolics Resources (Popularity: )
http://www.symbols.net/blissre.htm
Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
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Ancient Mesoamerican Writing (Popularity: )
http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/ancwrite-old.html
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 (Popularity: )
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fonts/#myth
Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
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Evolution of Alphabets (Popularity: )
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/
Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
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Indian Alphabet Comparison (Popularity: )
http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm
A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
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Ancient Scripts of the World (Popularity: )
http://www.ancientscripts.com/
Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
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The Origin of Writing (Popularity: )
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 ...
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A Short Presentation and Overview of the Rune alphabet, the Futhark (Popularity: )
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.
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Omniglot (Popularity: )
http://www.omniglot.com/
Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online ...
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Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon (Popularity: )
http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/spellit.html
The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
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A Philippine Leaf (Popularity: )
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/
A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
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Writing in Inuktitut (Popularity: )
http://www.halfmoon.org/inuit.html
Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.
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Eskaya Script (Popularity: )
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 ...
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World Writing Systems - an introduction (Popularity: )
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writintro.htm
Very rich site on linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms and social and political aspects of many ...
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