Symbols

Encyclopedia of western signs and ideograms. More than 2,500 signs, from ideograms to graffiti, arranged into groups according to their graphic characteristics. Their histories, uses, and meanings.
http://www.symbols.com/

The Origin of Writing

Post-structural analysis of the non-metrical image writing used by the Aboriginal Peoples of North America during pre-Columbian times, a system based upon material production within a visual context.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8281/

African Writing Systems

An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian).
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html

Impact of the Dravidian Culture on the Writing Systems in India.

A paper which examines the development of scripts in India.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2104/scripts.html

The Numbers in Various Writing Systems

Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign.
http://zompist.com/scripts.html

Orthography Examples

Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system.
http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/orthography/examples.html

A Study of Chinese Writing Systems

Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography .
http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/writesys.htm

Blissymbolics Resources

Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities.
http://www.symbols.net/blissre.htm

Ancient Mesoamerican Writing

Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites.
http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/ancwrite-old.html

Truetype fonts by Curtis Clark

Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fonts/#myth

Evolution of Alphabets

Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/

Indian Alphabet Comparison

A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani.
http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm

Ancient Scripts of the World

Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/

Amanye Tenceli:The Writing Systems of Aman

Complete descriptions of the Sarati and Tengwar scripts created by J.R.R. Tolkien for his celebrated artificial languages. Also includes fonts and specialized writing programs.
http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/

A Short Presentation and Overview of the Rune alphabet, the Futhark

Contains a good discussion of the changes in the Norse Runic alphabet (the Futhark) over time.
http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/viking_age/runes/overview.html

Omniglot

Guide to all major alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems. Also includes information on languages and links to other online language resources.
http://www.omniglot.com/

Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon

The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/spellit.html

A Philippine Leaf

A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines.
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/

Writing in Inuktitut

Includes an interactive Inuit script generator.
http://www.halfmoon.org/inuit.html

Eskaya Script

Describes the Eskaya people of Bohol, and their writing, numerical, and calendar system, as well as links to information about other Philippine scripts.
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/mystery/eskaya.htm

Writing System Topics by Vivian Cook

Comprehensive site that focuses on english orthography but also gives more general linguistic information. Contains work-in-progress version of a book on english orthography and many humorous examples of spelling mistakes. Suitable for both linguists and
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~vcook/wstopics.htm

World Writing Systems - an introduction

Very rich site on linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms and social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writintro.htm

Naxi Dongba Pictographs Software

Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba.
http://www.naxidongba.com/

The Schonfieldian Script Page

The internet's first resource on Hugh J. Schonfield's reformed Hebrew writing system.
http://www.geocities.com/snortar/schonfield.html

C. C. Elian

An alternative writing system examplified through art works that are visually similar to Asian and Middle Eastern systems, but based on Western concepts of language as it relates to perception and the implied ability to experience and control reality.
http://www.ccelian.com

Multilingual Computing

Links to sites of interest in multilingual computing and other closely related areas of scripts and languages as well as a guide for finding language fonts on the Internet.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=Links