#Hunting `#Oumuamua’s-Cousin with #Eyes Wide Open : Medium
How #Chinese #Characters Work: The Evolution of a Three-Millennia-Old #WritingSystem : Open Culture
This Famous #Physics #Experiment Shows Why the #Government Should Support ‘Useless’ #Science : WIRED
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
#dailyhandwriting
#surfneblin (gnomish)
8. write each lowercase letter five times
...or present a surfneblin vowel conjunct grid?
rev. 8 of wands
rev. 8 of pentacles
Communication and splendour of fire and earth ill-dignified.
These are both from recent draws...
My kid wrote me a message using the Tendrilis script!
Thank You again to @blinry for drawing our attention to this aesthetically pleasing writing system.
More info on Tendrilis: https://anomalis.gumroad.com/l/tendrilis-guide
Happy #InternationalMotherLanguageDay !
I wrote this blog post (in Danish) for Lingoblog about #Greenlandic (#Kalaallisut) orthography and other #Inuit writing systems.
Mystery of the World’s #OldestMap on a Nearly 3,000-year-old #BabylonianTablet Finally Solved
#BabylonianGods #Babylon #Map #Maps ##BabylonianWritingSystem #Cuneiform #WritingSystem #Geography #History #Archaeology #Cartography #Mesopotamia
#AncientCartography #Mythology #Religion
Our next LECTURE will be with @lisahuang (me 
) about Chinese Hanzi, the script and its typography.
June 22, 2024
2 to 4 p.m. (CEST / UTC+2)
Online, in English
20€
Bookings available here: https://www.wordsoftype.com/
“Over the millennia, human language has produced a variety of beautiful, unusual, and weird forms of writing. Here are 7 of them.”
#WritingSystem #History #Language
https://www.thecollector.com/unusual-writing-systems/
I was looking at these posters from the Gutenberg museum as a way to introduce my curious daughter (age 9) to the world's writing systems.
https://www.worldswritingsystems.org/poster.html
However, I wondered if anyone on here knows of any other (age-appropriate) resources in book (prreferred) or poster form that I should consider?
Boosts appreciated.
@topafricatrends
Cool fact!
But it's not the only writing system specially adapted to an African language. Another example is the Vai syllabary: https://omniglot.com/writing/vaisyllabary.htm
Atlas of Endangered Alphabets - Indigenous and minority writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/ #writingsystem
Amateur archaeologist uncovers ice age ‘writing’ system https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/05/amateur-archaeologist-uncovers-ice-age-writing-system?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
For those who want to share their work with invented writing systems—a.k.a. #neography—you can follow and mention the group: @neography
Boost for visibility!
The Ol Chiki (ᱚᱞ ᱪᱤᱠᱤ) script was created in 1925 by Raghunath Murmu for the Santali language, which is recognized as a regional language in India. (source: Incunabula) #OldChiki #Script #WritingSystem #Santali #Language #Languages #RegionalLangauge #India #RaghunathMurmu
The "Cascajal Block" is an #Olmec engraved slab found in the State of #Veracruz , #Mexico in 1999. It has been dated to around 900-650 BC (its dating is still controversial) and may represent the oldest #writingsystem in the #Americas , since it contains 62 #undeciphered glyphs (many of them repeated). It is still kept in the village of "Lomas of Tacamichapan", where it was originally found. Photos my own.
