- African Writing Systems - http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html
An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
- Symbols - 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 graphic characteristics. Their histories, uses, and meanings.
- Orthography Examples - http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/examples.html
Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
- Blissymbolics Resources - http://www.symbols.net/blissre.htm
Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
- Ancient Mesoamerican Writing - http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/ancwrite-old.html
Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
- Evolution of Alphabets - http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/
Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
- Indian Alphabet Comparison - http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm
A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
- Ancient Scripts of the World - http://www.ancientscripts.com/
Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
- The Origin of Writing - 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 based upon material production within a visual context.
- Amanye Tenceli:The Writing Systems of Aman - http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/
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.
- Omniglot - http://www.omniglot.com/
Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.
- A Philippine Leaf - http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/
A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
- Writing in Inuktitut - http://www.halfmoon.org/inuit.html
Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.
- Eskaya Script - 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 other Philippine scripts.
- Writing System Topics by Vivian Cook - http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~vcook/wstopics.htm
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 the broad public.
- World Writing Systems - an introduction - 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 languages' orthographies.
- Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software - http://www.naxidongba.com/
Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
- The Schonfieldian Script Page - http://www.geocities.com/snortar/schonfield.html
The internet's first resource on Hugh J. Schonfield's reformed Hebrew writing system.
- C. C. Elian - http://www.ccelian.com
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.
- Multilingual Computing - http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=Links
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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