WebThe earliest known alphabetic (or "proto-alphabetic") inscriptions are the so-called Proto-Sinaitic (or Proto-Canaanite) script sporadically attested in the Sinai and in Canaan in the late Middle and Late Bronze Age.The script was not widely used until the rise of Syro-Hittite states in the 13th and 12th centuries BC.. The Phoenician alphabet is a direct …

WebOld Persian cuneiform is a semi-alphabetic cuneiform script that was the primary script for Old Persian.Texts written in this cuneiform have been found in Iran (Persepolis, Susa, Hamadan, Kharg Island), Armenia, Romania (), Turkey (Van Fortress), and along the Suez Canal. They were mostly inscriptions from the time period of Darius I, such as the DNa …

WebArwi was an outcome of the cultural synthesis between seafaring Arabs and Tamil-speaking Muslims of Tamil Nadu.This language was enriched, promoted and developed in Kayalpattinam.It had a rich body of work in jurisprudence, sufism, law, medicine and sexology, of which little has been preserved.It was used as a bridge language for Tamil …

WebFraktur (German: [fʁakˈtuːɐ̯] ()) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand. The blackletter lines are broken up; that is, their forms contain many angles when compared to the curves of the Antiqua (common) typefaces modeled after antique Roman square capitals and Carolingian minuscule.

WebBlissymbols or Blissymbolics is a constructed language conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.Blissymbols differ from most of the world's major writing …

WebThe Burmese alphabet (Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ mranma akkha.ra, pronounced [mjəmà ʔɛʔkʰəjà]) is an abugida used for writing Burmese.It is ultimately adapted from a Brahmic script, either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India.The Burmese alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit.In recent decades, other, …

WebTeeline is a shorthand system developed in 1968 by James Hill, a teacher of Pitman Shorthand. It is accepted by the National Council for the Training of Journalists, which certifies the training of journalists in the United Kingdom.. It is mainly used for writing English within the Commonwealth of Nations, but can be adapted for use by other Germanic …

WebJawi (Jawi: جاوي ‎; Acehnese: Jawoë; Kelantan-Pattani: Yawi; Malay pronunciation: ) is a writing system used for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, such as Acehnese, Banjarese, Kerinci, Maguindanaon, Malay, Minangkabau, Tausūg, and Ternate.Jawi is based on the Arabic script, consisting of all of the original 31 Arabic letters, and six …

WebThe letters Q (chiu), W (dublu v), and Y (igrec or i grec, meaning "Greek i") were formally introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982, although they had been used earlier.They occur only in foreign words and their Romanian derivatives, such as quasar, watt, and yacht.The letter K, although relatively older, is also rarely used and appears only in …