The study of writing systems and methods or rules of spelling.
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- Ancient Scripts of the World Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
- 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.
- Indian Alphabet Comparison A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
- The Numbers in Various Writing Systems Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
- Omniglot Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.
- Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
- A Philippine Leaf A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
- C. C. Elian 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.
- Multilingual Computing 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.
- Truetype Fonts by Curtis Clark Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.