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philly_boy · **Posted:** Thu 23 Apr 2009 2:17 pm

Epp wrote:

Delodephius wrote:

Lower-case ligatures

The second one from the left looks familiar!

LOL

kaenif · **Posted:** Thu 23 Apr 2009 2:25 pm

philly_boy wrote:

Epp wrote:

Delodephius wrote:

Lower-case ligatures

The second one from the left looks familiar!

LOL

Apart from that "familiar" character (lol), some others look very special too.

Neqitan · Joined:Fri 17 Apr 2009 9:59 pm Posts:397 Location: Canada

Talib wrote:

Ligatures with those letters are among the most common. Most have fallen out of use. There used to be hundreds, some involving three or more letters, like those of Devanagari. You can see why people stopped using them.

But unlike Devanagari's, they're not that elaborate, most likely just piled one ligature over each other.

Talib wrote:

Sometimes a good long break is just what you need.

Yes, I believe that too.

Delodephius wrote:

Speaking of ligatures, anyone ever heard or saw Cyrillic ones?

No. They look very interesting, specially "that familiar character".

Sobekhotep · **Posted:** Sat 25 Apr 2009 12:52 am

Egyptian hieroglyphs is my favorite. I also really like Soyombo, Siddham, & Chinese characters.

Declan · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 6:51 am Posts:122

I really like the Irish Unical alphabet, the old-fashioned one.

dtp883 · **Posted:** Thu 30 Apr 2009 4:16 am

I like Hebrew just for how it looks. The vowels make it simple and easy to read but I rather like the look with out the vowels.

I think the Arabic Script is just amazing. I think it is extraordinarily beautiful. I can't read it though.

I love the Latin Alphabet 3rd it's my comfort zone, and it's easier for me to read language that write with it because the letters are instantly recognizable to me.

Meera · **Posted:** Mon 11 May 2009 5:56 pm

My favorite Writting Systems are

1) Tamil

2)Devanagari(Hindi)

3)Persian

Delodephius · **Posted:** Mon 11 May 2009 7:57 pm

I forgot to post pictures of the Glagolitic script. So here are some examples.

Angular

Cursive

Round

anna · Joined:Fri 01 May 2009 6:47 am Posts:11

Some of these writing systems are really beautiful. I remember learning the Tamil system so that I could read the destinations on buses, when I went to Tamil Nadu. I'm glad I did, too, because I'd never have made it to Tiruvannamalai otherwise.

I get really sad when I think that many of these wonderful writing systems may not survive the computer age.

Kloiten · **Posted:** Sat 30 May 2009 8:46 am

My favorite alphabet is, without doubt, Hangul. It feels so... Korean! I guess that's what makes me like it, I guess.
My favorite syllabic alphabet is the Khmer script. It gives the impression of royalty to me.
My favorite syllabary is, of course, Hiragana.
My favorite semanto-phonetic script is obviously Chinese.

I also personally despise the Latin script. :mrgreen: