I'm very interested in ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. So I decided to get a book on how to learn to read and write them. The only thing is I'm very confused on...
I was wondering if anyone here knows how to write Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs? B/c i'm teaching myself to read and write them and i'm a little confused on how...
Hi all, I already knew that such things as "chromatographic scripts" existed, but I came upon an example of one for the first time today (the Edo script of...
I am catching up on the postings on this subject and was interested to see the Nigerian chromatographic example cited. I know the creator of these scripts,...
Hello, I would be glad to know from the members of the list about references to documents using Arabic script for translating artificial languages (human...
... Since no one anywhere in the world has any sort of authority over English, they can't do anything by law. All they can do is make their preference known,...
This page is neat, clear, and seems quite good. My knowledge of writing Chinese is beginner level, so I don't know just how good it is, but it would not...
hi all, does anyone have a count (and a reference for it if possible) for 1. how many scripts are in use today (living languages) in the world? 2. how many are...
Hi all, I was just wondering if anybody had any info about the KAIDA script [formerly] used in the westernmost Ryukyuan Island of Yonaguni (and perhaps in all...
Don Osborn wrote:
> A discussion on the Unicode list may be more appropriate here > (appended below in chrono order). It ends up asking about the > history...
A discussion on the Unicode list may be more appropriate here (appended below in chrono order). It ends up asking about the history of the letter K. One...
... On the contrary, in what society is it polite to address someone by a presumed hypocoristic without being invited to? You'd better not ever think of...
The following story was forwarded to me. The "offending" characters in question are, I take it, the left-facing and right-facing swastika symbols, often used...
... I don't know the other two, but Stokoe was devised not to be a phonetic (he would say cheretic) transcription system for any signed language, but to be a...
For a particularly pure example of a featural script, see http://www.zompist.com/elkwrite.htm . -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com...
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Hi, all, In case you're interested, a 3-week intensive class on Arabic calligraphy is being offered at San Francisco State University this Winter 2004 term....
What are the accepted pronunciations of "abjad" and "abugida"? Personally I say ['abdZad] and [abu'gida], where [a] may be realized as [A], as I don't have [a]...
Qalamites (US ones, anyway) might like to know that there's yet a third version of Georges Ifrah's book on numbers available in English. First there was *From...
If anyone can find, or create, a text transcript of this show, I would appreciate it. I didn't get to hear the broadcast, and I don't have a computer with...
On Thursday, 20 November 2003, from 16:00-17:00 GMT (11:00-12:00 EST, 08:00-09:00 PST) I will be interviewed live on The Connection, a NPR radio programme...
BTW, with all this talk (on Unicode) about hexadecimal digits and "Doug's private alphabet," I should mention that I've added some better charts and examples...
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I need someone to think of a quick example, off the top of their head, of a language (and example word) that uses the voiced velar fricative, the voiced...
I wrote a description about that subject, then came to my senses, and Googled. Here's the first hit: <http://www.io.com/~iareth/codindx.html> Reading the text...
This site seems to require Flash. While hardly scholarly, it is interesting in that it's a calendar-clock, but in which the digit updates are all fairly-small...
The September 2003 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine has a nice piece on the Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding (ICE) entitled "Clay, Paper, Code." See ...
