{"id":22776,"date":"2023-03-16T16:53:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22776"},"modified":"2023-03-16T16:53:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:53:57","slug":"script-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22776","title":{"rendered":"Script Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

Languages are classified into families<\/a>, meaning that all the languages within a particular family are known to have or thought to have developed from a common ancestor.<\/p>\n

\"Language<\/p>\n

For example, the Romance languages, such as French, Spanish, Italian and Romanian, all developed from Latin. They are one branch of the Indo-European language family, along with Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, Baltic, Indo-Aryan and other languages. It is believed that they all developed from a common ancestor known as Proto-Indo-European<\/a>, which has been reconstructed.<\/p>\n

Some languages have no known relatives and are known as language isolates. Examples include Basque<\/a>, Ainu<\/a> and Hadza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Writing systems can also be classified into families. For example the Latin<\/a>, Greek<\/a> and Cyrillic<\/a> alphabets all developed from the Phoenician<\/a> script, which developed from the Proto-Sinaitic \/ Proto-Canaanite<\/a> script, which was based on the Ancient Egyptian<\/a> Hieroglyphic and Hieratic scripts.<\/p>\n

\"Language<\/p>\n

In fact, most alphabetic scripts in use today come from the same Ancient Egyptian roots, or were inspired by or based on scripts from those roots.<\/p>\n

Sometimes there is some debate about which family writings systems belong to, and whether they can be considered separate scripts, or variants forms of one script.<\/p>\n

For example, there are many variants of the Latin script, such as Roman Cursive<\/a>, Rustic Capitals<\/a>, Basque-style lettering<\/a>, Carolingian Minuscule<\/a>, Fraktur<\/a>, Irish Uncial<\/a>, Merovingian<\/a> and the Visigothic Script<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are also many different scripts that are or were used in the Philippines. Some are considered regional variants of the Baybayin \/ Tagalog<\/a> script, while others are considered separate scripts. For example, variants of Baybayin include Badlit<\/a>, Kulitan<\/a> and Basahan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Are they separate scripts, or different versions of the Latin\/Baybayin script? Does it matter? Who decides?<\/p>\n

I’m putting together an index of writing systems on Omniglot arranged into families. It\u2019s not quite finished yet though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Languages are classified into families, meaning that all the languages within a particular family are known to have or thought to have developed from a common ancestor. For example, the Romance languages, such as French, Spanish, Italian and Romanian, all developed from Latin. They are one branch of the Indo-European language family, along with Germanic, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22781,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22776\/revisions\/22781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}