World Endangered Writing Day
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Friday, January 23rd
10:00am to 6:00pm UTC+0/GMT
https://endangeredwriting.com
@Endangeredalphabets
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With Pippa Steele, Peter Constantine, Mohamed Pujeh, Sign and Symbol Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Adam Yeo, Ariq Syauqi, Roland Huse, Iris Auda, Kambai Akau, Tim Brookes, Yanru Xu and Amalia Gnanadesikan.
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#EndangeredLanguages #EndangeredAlphabets #WritingSystems #Linguistics #Symposium #MinotiryScripts

¿What would happen if you took an extended Japanese text and swapped hirigana and katakana?

¿Would native Japanese speakers just shrug or would they find it gibberish?

#Japanese #language #linguistics #writingSystems

@languagelovers

I recently watched a #Arte documentary exploring whether all humans once shared a single ancestral #language. I decided to recap its key points as a follow-up to my series on the origins of languages and #WritingSystems from last year:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/evolution_of_language_follow_up/

#WeekendStories #Linguistics #LanguageEvolution #LinguisticHistory

https://medium.com/the-writers-reach/think-in-systems-for-writers-2fcbac70bcea

‘Think in Systems’ for Writers
Make Your Effort Count
#Productivity #writingcommunity #writingtips #writingsystems #medium

I almost forgot.

The publication Writing Systems of the Otherworld has hit the shop at @boldmonday
https://boldmonday.com/products/posters #Ad

Produced by #Alphabetum, The Hague (Akiem Helmling), printed with Pantone Gold and Black.
Text by Tim Brookes from @Endangeredalphabets
#WritingSystems #Language #ConLangs #EndangeredAlphabets

Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a writing system for sign languages. #MostDiscussed #WritingSystems #Deaf #ProjectindependentAssessment https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/408289

@scriptkeepersnetwork It looks like Lontara (https://omniglot.com/writing/lontara.htm), a script derived from Brahmi (the parent of most scripts in India), and found in Indonesia. It is encoded in Unicode as Buginese (https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1A00.pdf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lontara_script#Unicode).

#EndangeredScripts #Lontara #WritingSystems

@typojo lecture about the impacts of preserving endangered writing systems of South East Asia is coming soon!
Don’t forget to get your ticket to attend live or get the recording!

This lecture is part of the Knuth-Bigelow Incubator program developed with Stanford's SILICON and @letterformarchive and it has been made open for everyone who wants to join!

Tickets: https://wordsoftype.com/

#ad #lecture #southeastasia #scripts #writingsystems #typography #type

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 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/cornell-chronicle-ai-models-make-precise-copies-of-cuneiform-characters/

Happy #InternationalMotherLanguageDay !

I wrote this blog post (in Danish) for Lingoblog about #Greenlandic (#Kalaallisut) orthography and other #Inuit writing systems.

https://www.lingoblog.dk/arktiske-modersmaal/

#Lingoblog #orthography #WritingSystem #WritingSystems #InternationalMotherTongueDay

Write Runes on Your Computer

This blog post originally appeared on my blog at webbmaster.com, which I’m taking down to consolidate with this personal blog. The timestamp is set to the timestamp from the original blog post.

I wrote a post with this same title ages ago on my old blog, which I don’t really feel like bringing back (something about being haunted by things I wrote 15 years ago). But I swear, this post is better anyway! [note: you are reading this on the original blog in terms of the domain, though old posts haven’t been restored]

So in short, there are fonts out there that let you write runes or other ancient sets of characters, but they map the symbols to Roman characters. Meaning you type ‘a’ and you get ᚪ. You change to a different font, you get an a instead of an ᚪ. That’s fine if you’re able to force the text to use a certain font and only that font or if the final product is an image, not text.

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#writingSystems

https://thomaswebb.net/2017/11/01/write-runes-on-your-computer/