Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems.

Indian Alphabet Comparison

The Numbers in Various Writing Systems

www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8281/

phonetic bohol

www.symbols.net/blissre.htm

www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin /

Symbols

Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.Features linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms, social and political aspects of many languages` orthographies .

alphabets cyrillic

Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.

Evolution of Alphabets

cyrillic metrical

More than 2,500 signs, from ideograms to graffiti, arranged into groups according to their graphic characteristics .

alphabets naxi

A Short Presentation and Overview of the Rune alphabet, the Futhark

Tolkien for his celebrated artificial languages. Bibliography and links.

Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India.

evolutions truetype

Omniglot

hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/

Also includes fonts and specialized writing programs.

www.bibingka.com/dahon /mystery/eskaya.htm

A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.

metrical syllabaries

www .bibingka.com/dahon/

www.creativeideasforyou.com/spellit.html

zompist.com/scripts.html

futhark hieroglyphs

pages.prodigy.com /GBonline/ancwrite-old.html

Also includes some background information on Dongba. Their histories, uses , and meanings.

syllabaries phonetics

symbology naxi

Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics.Encyclopedia of western signs and ideograms .

evolutions precolumbian

Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.

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.Site details the evolution of many of the world`s major alphabets.

Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark

naxi tenceli

Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .Complete descriptions of the Sarati and Tengwar scripts created by J.

scripts .sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=Links

Commercial software for writing in Dongba , a pictographic writing system.

World Writing Systems

aramaic implied

Contains a good discussion of the changes in the Norse Runic alphabet (the Futhark) over time.

Amanye Tenceli:The Writing Systems of Aman

Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.

Eskaya Script

home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writintro.htm

evolutions pictographic

www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/writesys.htm

A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.

syllabary phonetics

www.omniglot.com/

Samples of non-Latin writing systems , including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.

symbology orthography

Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems.

Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software

www.naxidongba.com/

logos.uoregon.edu/explore /orthography/examples.html

phonetics futhark

www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/viking_age/runes/overview.html

African Writing Systems

orthography syllabary

A Philippine Leaf

pictographic naxi

An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).

Ancient Mesoamerican Writing

Orthography Examples

The Origin of Writing

bohol implied

Blissymbolics Resources

syllabary metrical

www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html

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.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.

alphabets phonetic

A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.R.

www.ancientscripts .com/

www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2104/scripts.html

www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm

Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.

truetype symbology

Ancient Scripts of the World

www.ccelian.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.

phonetics runic

A Study of Chinese Writing Systems

Describes the Eskaya people of Bohol, and their writing, numerical, and calendar system, as well as links to information about other Philippine scripts .