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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.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2104/scripts.html 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.
http://www.ccelian.com 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.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8281/ Ancient Mesoamerican Writing -
Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/ancwrite-old.html Evolution of Alphabets -
Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/ 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.
http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/viking_age/runes/overview.html African Writing Systems -
An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html 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.
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/mystery/eskaya.htm Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark -
Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fonts/#myth A Philippine Leaf -
A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/ 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.
http://www.symbols.com/ A Study of Chinese Writing Systems -
Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .
http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/writesys.htm 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.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=Links Orthography Examples -
Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/examples.html Blissymbolics Resources -
Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
http://www.blissymbolics.us/ Ancient Scripts of the World -
Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/ Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon -
The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/spellit.html 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.
http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/ World Writing Systems -
Features linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms, social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writintro.htm The Numbers in Various Writing Systems -
Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
http://zompist.com/scripts.html Indian Alphabet Comparison -
A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm
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