{"id":2379,"date":"2010-02-22T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2010-02-22T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:00:34","slug":"script-tutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2379","title":{"rendered":"Alphabets and Ambigrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I came across a useful site that helps you learn various alphabets and other writing systems &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theiling.de\/schrift\/\">Henrik Theiling&#8217;s Script Teacher<\/a>. It includes tests on CJK radicals, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Georgian, a number of constructed scripts, and even a Blackletter (Gothic) typeface.<\/p>\n<p>Other writing-related sites I found recently include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambigram.com\/\">ambigram magazine<\/a>, which includes a gallery of ambigrams, an ambigram generator and other ambigram-related information; and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipscript.com\/ambigram-generator.aspx\">ambigram generator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An ambigram is &#8220;typographical creation that presents two or more separate words within the same physical space.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambigram.com\/ambigram-definition\">source<\/a>). Some ambigrams present the same word when read both ways up, or from left to right and right to left.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of ambigrams:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/ambigram2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"163\" alt=\"Ambigram of thank you\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This says Thank you and comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/manokan.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/18\/ambigram-thank-you\/\">this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a biscriptal one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/ambigram1.gif\" width=\"350\" height=\"241\" alt=\"Multilingual Rotational Ambigram\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It reads Sameh &#8211; \u0633\u0627\u0645\u062d in the Latin and Arabic alphabets and comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/bigforrap.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/sameh-multilingual-ambigram.html\">this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are other examples of bilingual \/ biscriptal ambigrams on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cognitive-china.org\/\">Chinese-English Ambigrams<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottkim.com\/inversions\/\">Inversions<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I came across a useful site that helps you learn various alphabets and other writing systems &#8211; Henrik Theiling&#8217;s Script Teacher. It includes tests on CJK radicals, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Georgian, a number of constructed scripts, and even a Blackletter (Gothic) typeface. Other writing-related sites I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-learning","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","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=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}