Hangul "is not the only [writing system that we know and can trace who exactly created it]. We know exactly who created the Cherokee and the Cree-Inuk syllabaries. There are also several new scripts in parts of Africa and elsewhere who’s creators are still alive among us, e.g., Herman ‘Mogri’ Mongrain Lookout for the Osage alphabet."
#TIL #alphabets #linguistics
https://xcancel.com/avzaagzonunaada/status/1907497588074672518
https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/osage-nation-master-language-teacher-herman-mongrain-lookout-receives-k-state
#Alphabets
Cornell Chronicle: AI models make precise copies of cuneiform characters. “Along with Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing, and consists of more than 1,000 unique characters…. Researchers from Cornell and Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed an approach called ProtoSnap that ‘snaps’ into place a prototype of a character to fit the individual […]
O. Снарский [O. Snarsky], Шрифты/Алфавиты [Typefaces/Alphabets], Kyiv, 1979.
One of several lettering manuals and alphabet source books by Snarsky in our collection. See more from this one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/letterformarchive/albums/72157717675267558/
Know more about Snarsky? Tell us!
#Ukraine #USSR #UkranianDesign #Lettering #Alphabets #Cyrillic #Typography #1970s
I learned something new today. Because #phonology and #alphabets 👇🏻
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5ompd7ulgn4vuudrk7h7zmmk/post/3li3yezws2s2u
Fun stuff.
Spoken Binary (and Hexadecimal)
or How to verbalize numbers in binary and hexadecimal.
http://ref.castedo.com/binspeak/
#BinSpeak #Conlang #Alphabets #BaseNumbers #NumberSystems
Spoken Binary (and Hexadecimal)
or How to verbalize numbers in binary and hexadecimal.
http://ref.castedo.com/binspeak/
#BinSpeak #Conlang #Alphabets #BaseNumbers #NumberSystems
Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469
Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.
@conlang@a.gup.pe @languagelovers@a.gup.pe @linguistics@a.gup.pe @academicchatter@a.gup.pe
#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469
Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.
@conlang@a.gup.pe @languagelovers@a.gup.pe @linguistics@a.gup.pe @academicchatter@a.gup.pe
#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints
Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469
Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.
@cryptography@lemmy.ml @crypto@infosec.pub
#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469
Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.
@cryptography@lemmy.ml @crypto@infosec.pub
#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto
Mystery #language on #ancient #stonetablet stumps #archeologists
The #Bashplemi inscription possibly shares similarities with over 20 other #alphabets.
https://www.popsci.com/science/mystery-language-stone-tablet/
Presidente da Febraban pede a governo que bloqueie uso de cartões de apostas online
Why we should go back to writing in runes - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4npuVmGxXuk
(Skip over the ad; not my channel.)
And the internet delivers! Props to Reddit’s u/belanedeja. It’s a mishmash of Glagolitic, botched Glagolitic and ‘just some written bullshit done so it looks cool a bit like Glagolitic’.
Which, as a seasoned former teenage metal-band logo writer on pencil cases, I am here for.
#alphabets #typography #linguistics #glagolitic #greek #croatian #graffiti
Staff pick:
Maelstrom was a literary periodical published in New York from around 1965. The ornamental letters aren’t really fonts in use in the narrow sense, but rather are taken from alphabets published in 1858 in “The Book of Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediaeval” by engraver Freeman Gage Delamotte.
One happy accident for the project was incorporating the “working” components of each letter in the design itself. i.e. when I work on fonts, I find the common weights (stroke thicknesses) and common shapes, and move these around to exact positions. And by making them separate BRIGHT colours (I use magenta and orange) enables me to see each section clearly.
I recently had the pleasure of creating something unique for a friend’s project (more on that to come soon!). And for reasons, I created a custom typeface, a latinised version of the Adrinkra alphabet from Ghana.
Adinkra has some fantastic characteristics and has a very modular form which made it a fun, yet simple, design to work on.
L'écriture #cyrillique, un enjeu politique
👉 "La #Moldavie, après la dissolution de l’#URSS, s’est tournée vers l’écriture latine. Suite à la guerre, les Ukrainiens essayent de développer un #alphabet latin pour se distinguer des Russes."
On s'y attendait un peu...
https://savoirs.unistra.fr/campus/lecriture-cyrillique-un-enjeu-politique
#alphabets #alphabetlatin #alphabetcyrillique #Ukraine #Russie #Pologne #Bielorussie #histoire #geopolitique #langues
The second is maybe just interesting to me: Euboea is an old way of transcribing Εὔβοια, the name of the large Greek island where this variety of Greek was spoken and written. In my Masters degree in Edinburgh, I had a classmate, Evia. She is named for that island, and "Evia" is the modern transliteration of Εὔβοια.
So, in a way, she is named after a place that turned out to be a nursery for an early version of the Latin alphabet.
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Seymour Chwast, Bestial Bold, Push Pin Graphic, No. 84: Not Quite Human Issue, Push Pin Studios, New York, May/June 1980. Bestial Bold https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/84714/bestial-bold is an adaptation of Chwast’s typeface, Blimp https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32748/chwast-blimp (Photo-Lettering, 1970); he simply added eyes and teeth.
“ⓊUncopyrighted 1980 by Push Pin Studios, Inc. Unauthorized use will be met with indifference.”
#Cuneiform to #Hieroglyphics: The Evolution of Western #Alphabets
Great Read!
https://www.thecollector.com/cuneiform-hieroglyphics-evolution-western-alphabets/
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