Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Graphemics and Orthography
See also: - Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources. - A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines. - 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. - Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links. - Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities. - An alternative writing system exemplified 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. - The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings. - Describes the Eskaya people of Bohol, and their writing, numerical, and calendar system, as well as links to information about other Philippine scripts. - Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets. - A paper which examines the development of scripts in India. - A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani. - 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. - 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. - Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign. - Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets. - Features linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms, social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.
