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Omniglot - Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.
Writing System Topics by Vivian Cook - 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.
12480 - Information on the 12480 alphanumeric writing system. including font downloads, a FAQ, and many charts and examples.
African Writing Systems - An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
The Alphabets of Ancient Italy - Etruscan, Umbrian, Oscan, and Volscian.
Alphabets of the World - Information on over 200 of the major languages of the world. Includes orthography, background, sample texts, your name in many languages, and more.
Amanye Tenceli:The Writing Systems of Aman - 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 - Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
Ancient Scripts of the World - Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
Blissymbolics Resources - Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
C. C. Elian - 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 - The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
Eskaya Script - 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 - Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India. - A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.
Indian Alphabet Comparison - A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
ITRANS - Widely-used software for working with the writing systems of India (Devnagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu).
Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software - Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
The Numbers in Various Writing Systems - Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
The Origin of Writing - 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.
Orthography Examples - Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
A Philippine Leaf - A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
The Schonfieldian Script Page - The internet's first resource on Hugh J. Schonfield's reformed Hebrew writing system.
A Short Presentation and Overview of the Rune alphabet, the Futhark - Contains a good discussion of the changes in the Norse Runic alphabet (the Futhark) over time.
A Study of Chinese Writing Systems - Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .
Symbols - 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.
Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts - A collection of downloadable transliteration and romanization tables for non-Roman alphabets and scripts in .pdf format.
Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark - Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
Universal Language Resource - Alphabets and scripts from the world's languages, language groups, subgroups and dialects including maps indicating the areas of usage.
What's the Difference between Speech and Writing? - A linguistic comparison of spoken and written language.
Workshop: From letter to sound - Homepage of the Third International Workshop on Writing Systems, University of Cologne, Germany, September 23-24, 2002. The abstracts provide a good overview of current linguistic research.
World Writing Systems - an introduction - 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 - Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.

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