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
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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 […]
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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/
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I learned something new today. Because #phonology and #alphabets 
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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
ref.castedo.comSpoken Binary (and Hexadecimal)
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.
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#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
Why we should go back to writing in runes - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4npuVmGxXuk
(Skip over the ad; not my channel.)
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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.
#introduction HI I am Randolph, I am a #neurodivergent #furry with #autism with a special place in my heart for #hymns, #anthems (mainly #nationalanthems and #historicalanthems), authoritarian states' #propaganda and #propagandasongs, any #politicalmusic and sometimes #folkmusic or normal music in languages like #russian or #kyrgyz or #turkish. Quite interested in the #RussiaUkraineWar and #specialmilitaryoperation propaganda too.
#sovietsocialistrepublics and #ssranthems are awesome (in fact WW2 and Cold War period are my favorite), I like #geopolitics, #vexillology, #mapping.
My normaler interests include #linguistics, alongside English I speak #italianlanguage and #sicilianlanguage (interested in its preservation too), #lettering and #alphabets and #writingsystems, particularly the #Cyrillic and #greekscript. Knows #csharp. And is a #phonetics and #internationalphoneticalphabet nerd. I really like #hyenas, #foxes, #seals, and #otters. And that's about enough.
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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.
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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/
TheCollector · Cuneiform to Hieroglyphics: The Evolution of Western AlphabetsWriting was invented independently in the Near East, China and Mesoamerica. The Near East scripts, cuneiform and hieroglyphics are predecessors of the western alphabets of Greek and Latin.
I just noticed, he says #India - not #भारत - even though it's mostly not in #English
https://youtube.com/shorts/YLfj2Kn6Ysk
What's the other #language ?
I recognise chai and a couple of numbers, but those are in a few languages?
I switched my keyboard to write one word to avoid deciding which #Latin #vowels to use.
I think the reason I've learned 5 other #alphabets and #abjads is mostly to avoid Latin vowels as much as possible in the most pretentious way possible.
A great #Oxford weekend for the Endangered Alphabets Project—a homecoming of sorts. Thanks to the dozens of people who organized, attended and supported the events, which represented the first public appearance of my #book Writing Beyond #Writing and which prefigured the #Kickstarter campaign to fund our #Endangered #Alphabets #sudoku book. Stay tuned for more information about both!
The seventh and last of my carvings introducing Mastodon to the Endangered #Alphabets, and vice versa, this is the word "Bamum" in the Bamum #script of #Cameroon, a script created to usher in a golden age of indigenous culture in a #colonial era--but whose very success caused its repression and destruction, and the death of its creator. More at https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/alphabets/bamum/
To continue this week of introducing the #Endangered #Alphabets to Mastodon, today we have a script that was invented by a pair of brothers, the *older* of whom was barely into his teens. The Adlam script has grown over 25 years to become one of the most successful non-mainstream scripts in the world, and an argument for indigenously-created rather than #colonial writing systems. https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/alphabets/adlam/
For those who need to type in different alphabets or Latin alphabets which use diacritic marks, this website is highly useful.
www.lexilogos.comOnline Keyboard • Multilingual • LEXILOGOSOnline Multilingual Keyboard
Specimen sheet featuring initials by Marcel Lenoir, from Schriftenatlas: eine Sammlung von Alphabeten, Initialen und Monogrammen, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer, published by Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart, 1903–05.
