Links: Free foreign fonts

Abkhaz, Amharic, Ancient, Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Avestan, Balinese, Bassa, Batak, Bengali, Bisaya, Brahmi, Braille, Bugis, Burmese/Myanmar, Cambodian, Cherokee, Chinese, Coptic, Cree, Cyrillic, Dehong Dai (Tai Nua), Deseret, Devanagari, Djembe, Divehi, Epi-Olmec, Ethiopic, Etruscan, Farsi, Fraktur, Ge'ez, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek, Gurjarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, Hmong, Inuktitut, Irish Uncial, IPA, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Klingon, Korean, Lanna, Lao, Latin, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manchu, Mayan, Mongolian, Newari/Ranjana, N'Ko, Ogham, Old Church Slavonic, Osmanya/Somali, Oriya, Pahlavi, Persian, 'Phags-pa, Punjabi, Romulan, Runes, Russian, Sabaean, Santali, Saurashtra, Sharda, Shavian, Siddham, Sinhala, Sütterlin, Syriac, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Dam, Tai Lue, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thai, Thaana, Tibetan, Tifinagh, Tolkienian, Ugaritic, Unifon, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yi, Fonts for many multiple systems

Making your own fonts | Other sources of fonts

Foreign imitation fonts
http://www.1001fonts.com
http://www.2-free.net/foreign-imitation-fonts/
http://www.ezeefonts.com/en/fonts/foreign/

Apple font tools: http://developer.apple.com/fonts/

Fontifier

Font creation programs

http://users.breathe.com/l-emmett/
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fontlab.com

Ancient fonts

Fonts for ancient and constructed languages

- Bugis, Goidelic, Gothic, Chaldean, Saracen, Phags-pa, Ndjuká, Meroitic and various conlangs: http://www.valdyas.org/conlang.html

Jack's Scribal and Epigraphic fonts

- a collection of ancient fonts including: Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, Sanskrit and many others: http://www.historian.net/files.htm

Biblical fonts

- collections of biblical and other ancient fonts including: Akkadian, Coptic, Etruscan, Greek, Hebrew, Linear B, Nabatean and Syriac: http://www.sbl-site.org/Resources/Resources_BiblicalFonts.aspx

Star Wars and other sci-fi fonts

http://www.echostation.com/features/aurebesh.htm

Abkhaz fonts

http://apsni.com/tech.htm

Information about Abkhaz

Fonts.com

Arabic fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Arabic.html
http://www.isc.com.au/WebFonts/
http://freearabicfonts.com/

Arabic Genie - a quick and easy way to learn the Arabic alphabet
http://www.arabicgenie.com

Arabic Genie - a quick and easy way to learn the Arabic alphabet
http://www.arabicgenie.com

Rocket Arabic - learn Arabic quickly and easily | Learn Arabic abroad | Learn Arabic online with ArabicPod101

Information about Arabic | Phrases in Modern Standard Arabic | Phrases in Egyptian Arabic | Phrases in Lebanese Arabic | Phrases in Moroccan Arabic | Tower of Babel in Arabic | Arabic links | Arabic learning materials | Books about the Arabic script | Arabic electronic dictionaries and translators

Aramaic fonts

http://www.historian.net/files.htm
http://www.aramaicpeshitta.com/fonts.htm

Information about Aramaic

Armenian fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Armenian.html
http://www.cilicia.com/armo8.html
http://www.armsite.com/software/
http://www.hayfonts.com
http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/download_fonts.html

Information about Armenian | Armenian phrases | Tower of Babel in Armenian

Avestan fonts

http://www.iranianlanguages.com/dctr.htm

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Balinese fonts

http://www.babadbali.com/aksarabali/balisimbar.htm

Bassa (Vah) fonts

http://www.reocities.com/jglavy/african.html

Batak fonts

http://www.hawaii.edu/indolang/surat

Bengali fonts

http://www.ekushey.org/index.php/page/otf_bangla_fonts
http://scriptsource.org/scr/Beng
http://www.omicronlab.com/bangla-fonts.html
http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/
http://banglafont.com
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Bengali.html

Information about Bengali | Bengali phrases | Bengali numbers | Tower of Babel in Bengali | Bengali learning materials

Bisaya fonts

http://alibataatpandesal.com/outbox.html

Brahmi fonts

https://sites.google.com/site/brahmiscript/

Braille fonts

http://www.certifiedchinesetranslation.com/openaccess/Braille-ASL-fonts.html

Information about Braille

Burmese/Myanmar fonts

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Myanmar.html
http://www.angelfire.com/country/burmesefont/

Information about Burmese | Burmese learning materials

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Cherokee fonts

http://www.cherokee.org/Culture/CherokeeFont/Downloads.aspx http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Cherokee.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/

Information about Cherokee | Cherokee phrases | Cherokee learning materials

Chinese fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseTraditional.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseSimplified.html
http://www.certifiedchinesetranslation.com/fonts/Chinese.html
http://www.clearchinese.com/resources/fonts.htm
http://www.indeed.com.tw/download.html
http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/fonts.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/08fea/c02.html

Information about Mandarin | Mandarin phrases | More Mandarin links | Mandarin learning materials

Coptic fonts

http://www.copticchurch.net/coptic_fonts/
http://www.stshenouda.com/coptsoft.htm
http://heh.pl/&pk

Cree fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Cree.html

Cyrillic (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, etc) fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_CyrS.html
http://www.fingertipsoft.com/ref/cyrillic/fontlist.html
http://free.type.org.ua/en/

Information about Russian | Russian phrases | Russian idioms | Tower of Babel in Russian | Russian links | Russian learning materials

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Dehong Dai (Tai Nua) fonts

http://www.fixedsys.org/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong

Deseret fonts

http://home.earthlink.net/~sbartok1632/projects/fonts.htm
http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Deseret_Alphabet_Fonts.html

Devanagari (Hindi, Nepai, Marathi, etc) fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Devanagari.html
http://www.kiranfont.com
http://www.devanagarifonts.net
http://www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/

Information about Hindi | Hindi phrases | Hindi numbers | Tower of Babel in Hindi | Hindi learning materials | Electronic dicitonaries and translators for Hindi

Djembe fonts

http://www.djembe.net/fontinst.shtml

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Epi-Olmec fonts

http://ocean1.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo/Epi-Olmec/index.html

Ethiopic/Amharic/Ge'ez fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Ethiopic.html
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/ethiopia/geez_fonts.html
http://www.geezsoft.com/home/

Information about Amharic | Amharic phrases | Tower of Babel in Amharic | Amharic learning materials

Etruscan fonts

http://users.tpg.com.au/etr/etrusk/alph/etrFont.html

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Georgian fonts

http://www.fonts.ge
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Georgian.html

Information about Georgian | Georgian phrases | Georgian learning materials

German (Fraktur/Sütterlin) fonts

http://www.morscher.com/3r/fonts/fraktur.htm
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/

Information about German | German phrases | Numbers in German | Colours in German | Tower of Babel in German | German links | German learning materials

Glagolitic fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Glagolitic.html
http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/gl-font.html

Gothic fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Gothic.html
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/gothic_1.html

Greek fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Greek.html
http://www.greek-language.com/Fonts.html
http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts.html
http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/fonts.asp
http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces20th.html

Information about Greek | Modern Greek phrases | Ancient Greek phrases | Tower of Babel in Modern Greek | Tower of Babel in Ancient Greek | Greek links | Greek learning materials | Books about the Greek alphabet

Gujarati fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Gujarati.html
http://www.fototext.com/download.htm

Information about Gujarati | Gujarati phrases | Gujarati numbers | Tower of Babel in Gujarati | Gujarati learning materials

Gurmukhi/Punjabi fonts

http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/download.html
http://members.aol.com/hspannu/punjabi.html

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Fonts.com

Hebrew fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Hebrew.html
http://oketz.com/fonts/

Learn Hebrew online with HebrewPod101

Information about Hebrew | Hebrew phrases | Tower of Babel in Hebrew | Biblical Hebrew video lessons | Modern Hebrew video lessons | Hebrew links | Hebrew learning materials

Hieroglyphs fonts

http://www.yare.org/egypt/glyphbasic%20fonts.htm
http://www.neferchichi.com/fonts.html

Ancient Egyptian language and Hieroglyphs | Two consonant Hieroglyphs | Three consonant Hieroglyphs | Hieroglyphic determinatives | Hieratic script | Demotic script | Coptic alphabet | Links | Books about Ancient Egyptian

Hmong fonts

Pahawh Hmong
http://hmongscript.cwjmemhmong.info/download.html
http://www.hmongnet.org/hmongfonts/

Information about Hmong | Hmong learning materials

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Inuktitut fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Inuktitut.html
http://www.nunavut.com
http://www.gov.nu.ca/english/font/
http://www.evertype.com/software/apple/

Information about Inuktitut | Inuktitut phrases

IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) fonts

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=FontDownloadsIPA
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_IPA.html

Irish uncial fonts

http://www.fainne.org/gaelchlo/

Information about Irish | Phrases | Numbers | Colours | Kinship terms | Tower of Babel | Songs | Learning materials | Links

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Japanese fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Japanese.html
http://mikachan.sourceforge.jp (handwriting)

Japanese language | Written Japanese | Hiragana | Katakana | Kanji | Rōmaji | Phrases | Numbers | Colours | Tower of Babel | Learning materials | Japanese links

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Fonts.com

Kannada fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Kannada.html
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/kannada/
http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/kannada/
http://kannada.changathi.com/Fonts.aspx
https://github.com/aravindavk/Gubbi
https://github.com/aravindavk/Navilu

Information about Kannada

Khmer fonts

http://www.cambodia.org/fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Khmer.html
http://www.magma.ca/~sary/fonts.htm
http://scripts.sil.org/Mondulkiri
http://selapa.net/khmerfonts/

Information about Khmer | Useful phrases in Khmer | Tower of Babel in Khmer | Khmer learning materials

Klingon fonts

http://www.evertype.com/fonts/tlh/
http://star-trek-fonts.fanspace.com/
http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/klingon.htm
http://www.eatoni.com/wiki/index.php/Klingon

Information about Klingon | Useful phrases in Klingon | Tower of babel in Klingon | Learning materials and other books

Korean fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Korean.html

Information about Korean | Korean phrases | Korean numbers | Tower of Babel in Korean | Korean learning materials

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Lanna fonts

http://www.pinpia.com/indexeng.htm

Lao fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Lao.html
http://www.laoscript.net/downloads/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm#download

Information about Lao | Lao phrases | Tower of Babel in Lao | Lao learning materials

Latin fonts

http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/

Information about Latin | Latin phrases | Latin learning materials

Lepcha fonts

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Mingzat
http://www.fontineed.com/font/lepcha
http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxLepcha.html

Information about Lepcha

Limbu fonts

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=NamdhinggoSIL
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Limbu.html
http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxLimbu.html

Information about Limbu

Lontara/Makasar fonts

http://alibataatpandesal.com/outbox.html

Information about Lontara

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Malayalam fonts

http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net
http://www.clickeralam.org/product.html

Information about Malayalam | Malayalam phrases | Tower of Babel in Malayalam | Malayalam learning materials

Manchu fonts

http://sourceforge.net/projects/manchufont/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mang_Manchu_fonts
http://www.daicing.com/manchu/index.php?page=fonts-downloads
http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxManchu.html

Information about Manchu

Mayan fonts

http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=mayan
http://www.masterstech-home.com/

Information about Mayan

Mongolian fonts

Traditional Mongolian fonts
http://www.mongoluls.net/font.shtml

Information about Mongolian | Mongolian phrases | Tower of Babel in Mongolian | Mongolian learning materials

Fonts.com

Newari/Ranjana fonts

http://www.nepalnews.com.np/kantipur_font.htm

N'Ko fonts

http://www.nkoinstitute.com

Ogham fonts

http://www.evertype.com/celtscript/ogfont.html
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ogham

Information about Ogham

Old Church Slavonic fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_CyrOCS.html
http://www.davidzbiral.webzdarma.cz/cyrillicof.htm

Information about Old Church Slavonic | Tower of Babel in Old Church Slavonic | Old Church Slavonic learning materials

Osmanya/Somali fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Osmanya.html

Oriya fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Oriya.html

Information about Oriya | Oriya phrases | Tower of Babel in Oriya

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Pahlavi fonts

http://www.iranchamber.com/scripts/pahlavi_script.php

Information about Pahlavi

Pashto fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Pashto.html
http://www.khpalapashtu.com/sitee/downloads/fonts.htm

Information about Pashto | Pashto phrases | Pashto learing materials

Persian (Farsi) fonts

http://www.fontfarsi.ir/fontfarsi/

Information about Persian | Persian phrases | Persian numbers | Tower of Babel in Persian | Persian learning materials

'Phags-pa fonts

http://www.valdyas.org/conlang.html

Romulan fonts

http://star-trek-fonts.fanspace.com/

Runes fonts

http://www.rune-fonts.co.uk
http://www.fontspace.com/category/runic
http://www.thesauruslex.com/typo/hniaseng.htm
http://www.libdesigner.com/2012/04/19/25-runic-fonts-free-to-download/
http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/links4.html

Sabaean fonts

http://www.fontspace.com/category/sabaean

Santali / Ol Cemet’ / Ol Chiki fonts

http://ncmurmu.tripod.com/ncmurmu/id40.html

Saurashtra fonts

http://www.palkar.org

Sharda fonts

Free Sharda font
http://koshur.org/contents.html

Shavian fonts

http://www.demeyere.com/Shavian/info.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Shavian.html

Siddham fonts

http://tongphuockhai.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/software-siddham-lantsa/

Information about Siddham

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Sinhala fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Sinhala.html
http://ananmanan.lk/free_sinhala_fonts/
http://www.sjp.ac.lk/fa/cc/sinhala_fonts.html
http://www.wideshaseva.com/home/free_sinhala_fonts.html
http://www.metta.lk/fonts/

Information about Sinhala | Sinhala phrases | Sinhala learning materials

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Tagalog (Baybayin) fonts

http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/fonts.htm

Information about Tagalog | Tagalog phrases | Tagalog learning materials

Fonts.com

Tagbanwa fonts

http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/download/tagbanwa.htm

Tai Lue fonts

http://scripts.sil.org/DaiBannaSIL

Tamil fonts

http://www.azhagi.com/freefonts.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tamil.html

Information about Tamil | Useful phrases in Tamil | Numbers in Tamil | Tower of Babel in Tamil | Tamil language learning materials

Telugu Translation
Telugu Translation
of names and phrases

Telugu fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Telugu.html
http://scriptsource.org/scr/Telu

Information about Telugu | Useful phrases in Telugu | Numbers in Telugu | Tower of Babel in Telugu

Tengwar fonts

http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at

Thai fonts

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm

ThaiPod101.com - Learn Thai with Free Podcasts

Information about Thai | Thai phrases | Tower of Babel in Thai | Thai learning materials

Thaana/Dhivehi (Maldivian) fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Thaana.html
http://www.mitf.net/index.php/projects/thaana/font-unicode.html

Tibetan fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tibetan.html
http://tsampa.org/tibetan/software/
http://www.nitartha.org/downloads.html
http://www.otani.ac.jp/cri/twrp/TLK/
http://www.thubtenrigzin.fr/en.html

Information about Tibetan | Tibetan phrases | Tower of Babel in Tibetan | Tibetan learning materials

Tifinagh fonts

http://www.chez.com/imazighen/assckltfngh.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tifinagh.html

Tolkienian fonts

Tengwar fonts
http://www.acondia.com/fonts/
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/downloads.htm
http://home.student.uu.se/j/jowi4905/fonts/annatar.html
http://www.sci.fi/%7Ealboin/tengwar.htm
http://tengwarformal.limes.com.pl
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/tengwar_cursive.html
http://www.dafont.com/tengwar-gandalf.font
http://home.student.uu.se/j/jowi4905/fonts/tengtelc/index.php?subj=down

Information about Tengwar | More links for Tolkien's alphabets and languages

Sarati fonts
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/sarati.htm

Cirth fonts
http://www.acondia.com/fonts/index.html

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Ugaritic fonts

http://davidmyriad.tripod.com/myriads.font.page.html
http://www.fontspace.com/category/ugarit
http://www.historian.net/files.htm
http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/rk_fonts/index.html

Unifon fonts

http://www.unifon.org/htm/unifon characters.htm

Urdu fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Urdu.html
http://urdu.ca
http://www.urdulife.com/font/download/
http://blog.emobilez.com/2009/02/10/10-beautiful-unicode-urdu-fonts/

Information about Urdu | Urdu phrases | Urdu numbers | Tower of Babel in Urdu | Urdu learning materials

Fonts.com

Vietnamese fonts

http://fontchu.com
http://www.vps.org
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vietunicode/

Information about Vietnamese | Chữ-nôm script | Vietnamese phrases | Vietnamese colours | Tower of Babel in Vietnamese | Vietnamese learning materials

Yi fonts

http://scripts.sil.org/SILYi_home

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Fonts for multiple writing systems

http://www.wazu.jp
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html
http://www.slovo.info/unifonts.htm
http://greekfonts.teilar.gr
http://www.quivira-font.com/
http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/

ALPHABETUM - a Unicode font specifically designed for ancient languages by Juan-José Marcos,
Professor of Classics, Plasencia, Spain.

Includes: Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Picene, Messapic) Classical & Medieval Latin, Medieval Nordic (Old Norse and Old Icelandic), Old & Middle English, Ancient Greek, Coptic, Old Church Slavonic, Glagolitic, Gothic, Runic, Ogham, Iberic, Celtiberic, Cypriot, Phoenician, Linear B, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Brahmi, Kharosthi, Avestan and Cuneiform Scripts (Ugaritic and Old Persian). Also Includes Characters For Latin-Based European Languages, Cyrillic-Based Languages, Devanagari, Bengali, Hiragana, Katakana and Bopomofo)
http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/~jmag0042/alphabet.html

Making your own fonts

Tutorial on creating fonts
http://www.chank.com/howto/

Software for creating/editing fonts
http://users.breathe.com/l-emmett/
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fontlab.com

Fontstruct - free, easy to use, online font creation tool
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com

Font Image Generator - turn your handwriting in a font
http://www.cheapfontgenerator.com

Software for generating keyboard layouts
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx
http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
http://solair.eunet.yu/~janko/engdload.htm

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