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A Philippine Leaf -- A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
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).
Ancient Mesoamerican Writing -- Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
Blissymbolics Resources -- Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon -- The combination of the symbology of the English langage with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
Development of the Alphabet -- An interesting paper on the evolution of writing systems. The images which accompany the text are unavailable.
Evolution of Alphabets -- Site details the evolution of many of the world''s major alphabets.
How to create a language: Writing systems -- Transliteration and the creation of a script for constructed languages.
Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India. -- A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.
Indian alphabet comparison page -- A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati.
Introduction to Linguistics: Writing Systems Resources -- Links to information about graphemics.
Marking Systems in the Ancient Near East: The Origins of Punctuation -- A. Robertson''s studies of secondary marking systems in the Ancient Near East. Old Assyrian word dividers and spot markers, Ugaritic word dividers, El Amarna word dividers, and Egyptian verse points.
Non-Roman Writing Systems and the Internet. -- Links of use to students of non-Latin languages and graphemics.
Orthography Examples -- Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
Rabbit In The Moon: Mayan Glyphs -- Mayan hieroglyphic writing; how to write your name in Mayan.
Rosetta Stone -- The "translation" of "silent" symbols into a living language is necessary in order to make the whole content of information of these symbols accessible.
SYMBOLS.com -- encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms -- More than 2,500 Western signs, from ideograms to graffiti, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. Their histories, uses, and meanings are discussed.
Shavian Alphabet -- An alternative alphabet delevopled for English by George Bernard Shaw. This site introduces Shavian script, and offers fonts and applications for the scholar.
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.
Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark -- Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
What''s the Difference between Speech and Writing? -- A linguistic comparison of spoken and written language.
Writing in Inuktitut -- Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.

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