African Writing Systems An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
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.
Ancient Scripts of the World Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
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.
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.
Omniglot Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.
A Philippine Leaf A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
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.
Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
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.
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.
Blissymbolics Resources Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
