Language Writing Systems and Cuneiform Script
Akkadian | Egyptian |
Hittite Cuneiform | Meroïtic |
Old Persian Cuneiform | Sumerian Cuneiform |
Ugaritic Cuneiform | Writing and Spelling |
Ancient Scripts
Indexed by region, with articles on writing systems, sounds and phonetics, historical linguistics, and related study materials.
Alfabetos de Ayer y de Hoy (Spanish)
Alphabets Sites for Spanish Speaker.
Abecedaria
A blog about keyboarding in diverse scripts, literacy and digital literacy, and random quotes selected from the history of writing system theory.
A Philippine Leaf
The pages of a book are called leaves and small sheets with writing are called leaflets because more than a millennium ago, documents were written on leaves. In southern India and Southeast Asia, they were written on palm leaves.
Linguo-Graphic
Syneshesia of color, sound and forms. LINGUO-GRAPHIC. Graphic works on linguistics after V.Vetash.
African Writing Systems
Writing Systems are components of knowledge systems. By definition, they are philosophical because they assist in synthesizing ideas, thoughts, and deeds through the use of signs, symbols or other pictorial renderings.
l'aventure des écritures (French)
Writing Systems Sites for French Speaker.
Introduction to writings and phonetic
(in English)
Phonetic, Transcription, Scriptology, text samples of exotic writings.
Alte Schriften (German)
Information about the history and development of writing and calligraphy.
World Spelling Alphabets
Spelling, phonetic and radio alphabets from around the world. A spelling alphabet consists of a table with words assigned to each letter of the given alphabet.
Exotische Schriften (German)
(auf Deutsch)
Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and German Handwriting and Calligraphy.
Tous les alphabets (French)
Alphabets Sites for French Speaker.
Lessing B. Rosenwald Digital Collection
Digital Materials from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room, Library of Congress
Writing Systems
Alphabets and other writing systems
An Abbreviated History of Writing
Of course writing didn't start with the Roman alphabet, but for all practical purposes, Roman capitals are the beginning of our modern alphabet.
University of Maryland Evolution of Alphabets
This page is part of the course material for "History of the Alphabets" taught by Prof. Robert Fradkin at University of Maryland.
Bibliography on Writing Systems
Bibliography On Alphabets & Writing Systems Adam Blatner, M.D.
Hindi Rinny
Exploring the typography of Devanagari, Gujarati, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Odiya, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and other South Asian writing systems.
History of writing
Anything about the development of writing from ancient times to the present...including the manufacture of scrolls and books. We have available a huge range of reproductions of many ancient manuscript artifacts.
Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India
A database of G.A. Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India (1904~1928, Calcutta).
Alte Schriften (German)
Old Families of Writing Systems writing systems and Cultures.
World Handwriting
"Creounity Time Machine", the universal date converter for coin collectors.
Alphabets des langues africaines (French)
Alphabets of African languages Sites for French Speaker.
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