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unusual facts about writing system



Abugida

Abugida as a term in linguistics was proposed by Peter T. Daniels in his 1990 typology of writing systems.

Nguyen Van Nghi

Much of his life's work revolved around translating and adding his own commentary to an unmolested Tang Dynasty copy of the Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic) from an ancient script into the French language.

Slavica alphabet

Slavica is a new writing system for the Croatian language that was proposed by Rajko Igić in his 1987 book, Nova Slovarica, published by Universal from Tuzla.


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Avoiuli

Avoiuli (from Raga avoi "talk about" and uli "draw" or "paint") is a writing system used by the Turaga indigenous movement on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu.

Bible translations into Tlingit

According to Dr. Michael Krauss it is "a hardly readable, slavishly literal translation, and with a writing system so faulty that the spread of literacy would have been severely impeded even if there had been good translations".

Boston line letter

Boston line letter was a tactile writing system created by Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe in 1835, a popular precursor to the now-standardized Braille.

Cangjie input method

Invented in 1976 by Chu Bong-Foo, the method is named after Cangjie (Tsang-chieh), the mythological inventor of the Chinese writing system; the name was suggested by Chiang Wei-kuo, then Defence Minister of Taiwan.

Dokumenta

the Rheinische Dokumenta, a phonetic writing system of West German Platt languages

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs, a formal alphabetic/logographic writing system of ancient Egypt.

Epi-Olmec

Isthmian script, also known as Epi-Olmec script, a Mesoamerican writing system

Hiragana

Nü Shu, a syllabary writing system used by women in China's Hunan province

John D. Ray

His principal field of interest covers the Late and Hellenistic periods of Egypt, with special reference to documents in the demotic script, and he is also known for deciphering the Carian script, a writing system used by Anatolian mercenaries who fought for the late-period Egyptians.

Julius Oppert

In 1855, he published Écriture Anarienne, advancing the theory that the language spoken originally in Assyria was Turanian (related to Turkish and Mongolian), rather than Aryan or Semitic in origin, and that its speakers had invented the cuneiform writing system.

Nancy Sexton

In 2011, she co-authored with Alon Bar the book "Write Your Film," a screenwriting manual exploring the two unique writing system and collaboration.

Pangasinan literature

The earliest known written records in the Pangasinan language were written in the ancient Pangasinan script, a writing system related to the Tagalog Baybayin script and the Javanese Kavi script.

Proto-Anatolian language

However, the usage of Hittite cuneiform writing system limits the enterprise of understanding and reconstructing Anatolian phonology, partly due to the deficiency of the adopted Akkadian cuneiform syllabary to represent Hittite sounds, and partly due to the Hittite scribal practices.

Rencong alphabet

Rencong script is a writing system used to write Malay in central and southern Sumatra (Kerinci, Bengkulu, Palembang and Lampung).

Syllabics

Abugida, a writing system in which consonant graphemes are inherently associated with a default vowel

Umingmaktok

The traditional language of the area was Inuinnaqtun and is written using the Latin alphabet rather than the syllabics of the Inuktitut writing system.

Woleai script

When the next missionary, John Macmillan Brown, reached Woleai in 1913, he found an indigenous writing system, albeit one known to only a few people.

Yidu

Idu script, archaic writing system which represents the Korean language using hanja