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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/
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)
Scryption - a museum of writing systems in Tilburg, the Netherlands
http://www.scryption.nl
Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts
http://transliteration.eki.ee
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
Philippine leaf - a site about ancient Philippine scripts
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/
An introduction to Cuneiform writing
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html
Linguo-Graphic - colour-based adapations of alphabets and other writing-related images
http://www.astrolingua.spb.ru/LINGRAF/lingraph.htm
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
writeKA Scripto - transliterator for Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurmukhi
http://www.writeka.com/scripto/
Microsoft Reader - text to speech for English, French and German
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/tts.asp
Bell Labs Text-to-Speech for English, German, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French (Parisian/Canadian) and Italian: http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/
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/e-voice.asp
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
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://members.aol.com/leonheinz/english-lautbildschrift/lautbildschrift.htm
Universal Picture Language
http://www.picturelanguage.com
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
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
A History of Punctuation
http://www.completetranslation.com/punctuation.htm
Punctuation on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation
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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