Directory of Graphemics and Orthography Resources

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The study of writing systems and methods or rules of spelling.

Subcategories

• Chinese Calligraphy
• Egyptian Hieroglyphs
• Japanese Calligraphy
• Linear B

Resources in This Category

• A Philippine Leaf

  http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/
  A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.

• 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.

• C. C. Elian

  http://www.ccelian.com/
  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.

• Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon

  http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/spellit.html
  The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.

• Indian Alphabet Comparison

  http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm
  A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Numbers in Various Writing Systems

  http://zompist.com/scripts.html
  Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.

• Truetype Fonts by Curtis Clark

  http://www.mockfont.com/old/
  Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.

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