Science, Social Sciences, Linguistics, Graphemics and Orthography
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 - Comprehensive site that focuses on english orthography but also gives more general linguistic information. Contains work-in-progress version of a book on english orthography and many humorous examples of spelling mistakes. Suitable for both linguists and
- Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.
- 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.
- Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
- Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
- 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.
- Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
- Etruscan, Umbrian, Oscan, and Volscian.
- A collection of downloadable transliteration and romanization tables for non-Roman alphabets and scripts in .pdf format.
- Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
- The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
- 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 comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
- The internet's first resource on Hugh J. Schonfield's reformed Hebrew writing system.
- Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
- A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.
- Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
- Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .
- An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
- Describes the Eskaya people of Bohol, and their writing, numerical, and calendar system, as well as links to information about other Philippine scripts.
- 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.
- Contains a good discussion of the changes in the Norse Runic alphabet (the Futhark) over time.
- A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
- Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
- Very rich site on linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms and social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.
- Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.
- Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
- 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.
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