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	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.
	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.
	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.
	African Writing Systems - http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
	Indian Alphabet Comparison - http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.

	Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark - http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fonts/#myth Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
	A Philippine Leaf - http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/ A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
	The Numbers in Various Writing Systems - http://zompist.com/scripts.html Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
	Blissymbolics Resources - http://www.blissymbolics.us/ Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
	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.

	Evolution of Alphabets - http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/ Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
	A Study of Chinese Writing Systems - http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/writesys.htm Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .
	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.
	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.
	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.

	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.

	World Writing Systems - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writintro.htm Features linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms, social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.
	Multilingual Computing - http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=Links 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.

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