Bibliography of Alphabets & Writing Systems
http://www.blatner.com/adam/level2/scriprefs.htm
Evolution of Alphabets
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/alphapage.html
Ancient Scripts of the World - an excellent introduction to many ancient alphabets and other writing systems: http://www.ancientscripts.com
Writing in Graeco-Roman Egypt
http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/exhibits/writing/intro.html
Alphabets - Le site de tous les alphabets (en français)
http://pedroiy.free.fr/alphabets/
L'aventure des écritures (en français)
http://classes.bnf.fr/dossisup/
Alphabets des langues africaines (alphabets of African languages)
http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/
Alfabetos de Ayer y de Hoy (en español)
http://www.proel.org/alfabetos.html
Kallos Graphein - information about the history and development of writing and calligraphy (auf Deutsch): http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/Walter.Dietrich
Alte Schriften - information about writing systems (auf Deutsch)
http://www.obib.de/Schriften/AlteSchriften/alte_schriften.php
Exotische Schriften lernen - lessons in the Arabic, Chinese, Japanese
and German Sutterlin handwriting:
http://www.schriften-lernen.de (auf Deutsch)
http://www.schriften-lernen.de/index_eng.htm (in English)
Abecedaria - a blog about keyboarding in diverse scripts, literacy and digital
literacy, and random quotes selected from the history of writing system theory
http://abecedaria.blogspot.com
An introduction to Cuneiform writing
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html
Philippine leaf - a site about ancient Philippine scripts
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/
Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India
http://www.joao-roiz.jp/LSI/
Southeast Asia Digital Library
http://sea.lib.niu.edu/manuscript.html
Lessing B. Rosenwald Digital Collection at the US Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/rosenwald-featured.html
Tanjung Tanah manuscript, a book of laws from the late fourteenth century, written in a Sumatran post-Kawi script closely related to Javanese/Balinese: http://www.hawaii.edu/indolang/lokakarya/ms/
Hindi Rinny - samples of typography and sometimes handwriting in various scripts of India
http://www.hindirinny.com
World handwriting samples collection
http://apps.creounity.com/time_machine/index.php?go=handwriting.php
Histry of Hand Writing
http://www.dancotton.com/hand-lettering-history.html
Linguo-Graphic - colour-based adapations of alphabets and other writing-related images
http://www.astrolingua.spb.ru/LINGRAF/lingraph.htm
World Spelling Alphabets
http://www.worldalphabets.info
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Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts
http://transliteration.eki.ee
linguos - a way to search for information in non-Roman scripts using Latin transliteration
http://www.linguos.com
Transliterators: Latin - Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, etc
http://stevemorse.org/russian/eng2rus.html
http://ncnever.free.fr/translit/
http://girish.co.in/projects/dev/trans4.html
Transliteration between the Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Korean, Latin and Thai alphabets: http://www.transliterations.info
Google transliteration between the Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi,
Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and Latin alphabets
http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic
Transliteration and spell checkers for Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Russian and Ukrainian: http://www.translit.cc/
Thai to English transliteration
http://www.thai2english.com/online/
Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin transliterator
http://vereb.free.fr/transliteration/transliterator.html
CyrAcademisator - transliteration and transcription tool for Russian texts
http://podolak.net/en/russian-studies/cyracademisator
Alibata transliterator (Latin alphabet to the Tagalog script)
http://fatoprofugus.net/alibata/alibata.cgi
Hindi transliteration
http://www.writeka.com
http://blog.syedgakbar.com/2010/02/06/hindi-to-english-and-hindi-to-urdu-transliteration/
http://girish.co.in/projects/dev/trans4.html
Aksharamukha Asian Script Converter
http://www.virtualvinodh.com/aksharamukha
Nepali transliterator - type in Romanized Nepali and convert it to Devanagari
http://unicode.cafedeweb.com/
English > Tengwar (Sindarin, Quenya, etc)
http://tengwar.art.pl/tengwar/ott/start.php?l=en
Information about Tengwar | More links for Tolkien's alphabets and languages
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These are sites that enable you to type in a various writing systems using online virtual keyboards.
Virtual keyboards for a variety of languages from Arabic to Vietnamese
http://www.branah.com
i2Type - international on-screen language keyboard
http://www.sciweavers.org/i2type
Multi Language Virtual Keyboard (Arabic, Armenian, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Tamil, Thai): http://www.wandel.person.dk/mlvk.html
TypeIt: Virtual Multi Language Keyboard (European languages from Czech to Welsh, plus Esperanto and the IPA): http://www.typeit.org
Lipikaar - type in 15 languages of India
http://www.lipikaar.com
Lipik - text input and web searching in Mandarin, Vietnamese, Hindi, Telugu, etc.
http://www.lipik.in
Virtual Hebrew keyboard
http://hebrew-keyboard.com
Online Russian keyboard
http://www.apronus.com/internet/ruskey.htm
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Microsoft Reader - text to speech for English, French and German
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/info/tts.aspx
AT&T Text to Speech for English (US/UK), French, German and Spanish
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
Sinovoice - Text to Speech for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese
http://www.sinovoice.com.cn/english/tiyan.html
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Ductus - an online course in Paleography
http://www.medieval.unimelb.edu.au/ductus/
The National Archives | Palaeography tutorial (how to read old handwriting)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/
Byzantine Paleography
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/paleog.html
Visual histories of Hebrew, Arabic and Latin letters
http://www.e-hebrew.com/themes.html
Medieval Writing
http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/whatis.htm
Medieval Latin Paleography
http://www.stanford.edu/~regawood/phil314/
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~tdavid/courses/hist509.htm
Medieval and Early-Modern Paleography
http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/
English Handwriting 1500-1700
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/
Portuguese Paleography
http://homepage.mac.com/kmacardoza/Genealogy/Paleography/paleography_01.html
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Details of a Proto-Bulgarian script which was used before Glagolitic or Cyrillic
http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/pb_lang/
Sutton Movement Writing - a system for representing any kind of body movement,
including the movements of dance, mime, sports, body language and animals
http://www.movementwriting.org/
Elephant's Memory - An Interactive Visual Language
http://www.khm.de/~timot/PageElephant.html
Phonetic picture writing, by Leonhard Heinzmann
http://ieao.de/lautbildschrift-english/lautbildschrift.htm
Universal Picture Language
http://picturelanguage.org
Media Glyphs - an attempt to produce a common writing system for the world
http://www.mediaglyphs.org
Earth Language - a writing system made up of ideograms and phonetics based on nature
http://www.earthlanguage.org
Unideo - a picto/ideographic writing system (en français)
http://www.unideo.com
Brasseur Universal Code - a system of symbolic logic characters
http://webhome.idirect.com/~gemstone/
Many different writing systems created by Trent M. Pehrson
http://idrani.perastar.com/ISMS_orthography.htm
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Character finder - a site where you can find out which accented letters or other characters are used in which language(s), and other useful information about characters, fonts and unicode: http://transliteration.eki.ee/
The book and the Computer - The Future of the Printed Word (in English & Japanese)
http://www.honco.net
The Alphabet Synthesis Machine - generates alphabets and lets you turn them into fonts
http://alphabet.tmema.org
Mots et merveilles des langues d'ici et d'ailleurs
http://www.lexilogos.com
Lorem Ipsum - random text generator for a variety of languages
http://www.lorem-ipsum.info
Free Word Count tool
http://www.wordcalc.com
Scripts of the World - a widget for the Opera browser that enable you to type in just about any writing system: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6956
Tim Brooke's Endangered Alphabets Project
http://www.timbrookesinc.com
The New Post-literate: A Gallery Of Asemic Writing
http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/
A History of Punctuation
http://www.completetranslation.com/punctuation.htm
Punctuation on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation
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Writing.Com - the online community for writers and readers of all ages and interests
http://www.writing.com
The Writing Journey - Creative writing discovery courses
http://www.thewritingjourney.co.uk
A to Z Writing - links to sites about writing, writing systems, etc
http://www.atozwriting.com
The Write Way - Professional English Writing Courses
http://www.thewriteway.co.uk
The Writing Journey - Creative writing discovery courses
http://www.thewritingjourney.co.uk
Information and helpful tips on how to inspire your children enjoy reading and writing
http://www.adorasvitak.com
Write and Publish Your Book
http://www.writeandpublishyourbook.com
Information about authors and their literary works
http://www.realliteraturedir.com
Library of articles about writing
http://www.howtodothings.com/hobbies
BookBoardz - a forum about book publishing
http://www.bookboardz.com
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