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

A Short Presentation and Overview of the Rune alphabet, the Futhark
http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/viking_age/runes/overview.html
Contains a good discussion of the changes in the Norse Runic alphabet (the Futhark) over time.

A Study of Chinese Writing Systems
http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/writesys.htm
Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .

African Writing Systems
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html
An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).

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.

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.

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.

Blissymbolics Resources
http://www.symbols.net/blissre.htm
Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.

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.

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.

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.

Evolution of Alphabets
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/
Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.

Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2104/scripts.html
A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.

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

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.

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.

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 Alphabets of Ancient Italy
http://www.netaxs.com/~salvucci/VTLalphabet.html
Etruscan, Umbrian, Oscan, and Volscian.

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

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.

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.

Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts
http://ee.www.ee/transliteration/
A collection of downloadable transliteration and romanization tables for non-Roman alphabets and scripts in .pdf format.

Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fonts/#myth
Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.

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.

Writing in Inuktitut
http://www.halfmoon.org/inuit.html
Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.

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