#writing script

[amaranstein]

Doodles featuring my logography (W.I.P) Amaranscript

[covenawhite66]

7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed

Over the millennia, human language has produced a variety of beautiful, unusual, and weird forms of writing. Here are 7 of them.

1. Ge’ez Script

Ge’ez language is now generally only used as a liturgical language for Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Ge’ez script is used in Amharic, Tigrinya, Bilen, etc.

The Ge’ez script is an alphasyllabic writing system. The syllabary today has 26 consonantal letters with several forms vowel are diacritic marks fused to the letter.

2. Quipu

Incan Empire quipus were recording devices made from string. They were used to record mainly numerical data, such as taxes, census numbers, and calendrical information

These data were recorded onto the string in a series of knots of different types, each denoting different numbers.

3. Tengwar

J.R.R Tolkien writing systems created by J.R.R Tolkien an avid linguist who added his expertise in the field to his creative works of fiction.

One of several writing systems for the languages used in Middle Earth.

4. Rongorongo

Found on Rapa Nui AKA Easter Island. Rongorongo is a series of glyphs about which we know virtually nothing.

5. Sinhala Script

Used by the Sri Lankans to write the Sinhalese language, as well as the holy languages of Pali and Sanskrit, the Sinhala script is easily one of the most beautiful scripts in the world. It is used by the 16 million Sinhala speakers of Sri Lanka.

The Sinhala script is a syllabary and is written from left to right.

6. Classical Mongolian Script

This writing system enjoyed prominence throughout Mongolia for over 700 years until it was supplanted by the Cyrillic script, a result of being within the Soviet sphere of influence.

Invented by a Uyghur scribe by the name of Tata-Tongoone. Classical Mongolian of the few systems to be written vertically and left to right instead of right to left.

7. Nüshu

Used in Jiangyong County in Hunan Province in Southern China. Because of strict laws of patriarchal Confucianism that forbade women from doing many things.Women invented a writing system that they could claim as their own and as a way of rebelling against the patriarchal system

Nüshu was born and was used for writing personal diaries and letters between close female friends. It has 600 to 700 symbols represent a phonetic syllable.

[covenawhite66]

Cryptic 4,000-year-old writing system may finally be deciphered

More than 95% of Linear Elamite may be deciphered.

[covenawhite66]

Have Scholars Finally Deciphered a Mysterious Ancient Script?

Linear Elamite, a writing system used in what is now Iran, may reveal the secrets of a little-known kingdom bordering Sumer

[historianroo]

i am writing a two person play right now and it’s happening but it’s also a bit off because im suppose to be matching a prompt thing for a conference and at the moment it doesn't but it will

or i think it will

im loving it tho, because it is domestic and soft and worded realistically

and im writing about love and about how much this husband loves his wife and it is a good time

[covenawhite66]

I translated “Calibri Body” Script into “Symbol” Script Plus added some symbols from the Insert Tab

[shogikappa]

I just thought of something, all this talk of "Chinese could switch to pinyin with no tone marks as a writing script and cause no problems" I keep hearing would actually make Chinese harder to learn because then you have to actually remember tones of each word on a word by word basis so when you see the word "ma" you require context so that you would even know how to pronounce it, rendering stuff like 媽媽罵馬嗎 unintelligible as toneless pinyin. With Chinese characters you get a clear anchor on what tone to pronounce them as (there are a few multi-tonal characters, but context generally solves them without situations like "ma ma ma ma ma" arising, with a few ambiguous examples remaining.