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A Philippine Leaf 
A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/
African Writing Systems 
An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html
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.
http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/
Ancient Mesoamerican Writing 
Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/ancwrite-old.html
Ancient Scripts of the World 
Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/
Blissymbolics Resources 
Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
http://www.blissymbolics.us/
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.
http://www.ccelian.com
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.
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/mystery/eskaya.htm
Evolution of Alphabets 
Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/
Indian Alphabet Comparison 
A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm
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.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=Links
Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software 
Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
http://www.naxidongba.com/
Orthography Examples 
Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/examples.html
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.
http://www.symbols.com/
World Writing Systems 
Features linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms, social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writintro.htm
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