@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/

#Lingule #941 "paricayamu": 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆
https://lingule.xyz/

పరిచయము

I just love the looping aesthetic of this script!

#WritingSystems

The World’s #EarliestWritingSystem May Have Been Influenced by Older #Symbols Found on Stone ‘Cylinder Seals’

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of #Textile and #Agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of #writing

#Cuneiform #InventionOfWriting #WritingSystems #Anthropology #Archaeology

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-earliest-writing-system-may-have-been-influenced-by-older-symbols-found-on-stone-cylinder-seals-180985406/