🔴 The Daily Heller: The Art of Invented #Scripts, Meaning Optional
Feat.: Quasi: Experimental Writing Systems is an exhibition (@artcenteredu November 16) about invented & imaginary #writingsystems.
By @thedailyheller on @printmag
#typography

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How do you drink your terochichimomo? Coffee by any other name... カタカナ used as an English font is a new (to me) source of language play! #writingsystems #katakana #Japanese #typeface #langsky #lingsky

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A review of the #Kēlen #conlang #writingsystems.

#neography #orthography

Preparing my next exhibition #lumëndra about #code #painting and #writingsystems #johannareich #museumgoch

Map Asia’s tones. Stuart Jay Raj’s CLF links Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, Chinese + 300+ Tai datasets; revives Khom literacy; makes tonal/abugida systems teachable.

Tickets: PCGlobal2025.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #TonalLanguages #WritingSystems #AI #Linguistics #LangSky

Enjoy an incredibly fascinating piece on the ongoing attempts to decipher the khipus - the lost Inca (proto) writing system based on knots tied on cords.

(gift article)

#incaempire #khipus #writingsystems #knots

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Make Asian scripts & tones teachable. Stuart Jay Raj’s CLF links Thai tone rules to 平上去入, Hangul’s roots, Qieyun & Indic abugidas—reviving Khom literacy too.

PCTaipei.eventbrite.com

#PolyglotConference #TonalLanguages #WritingSystems #EdTech #LangTwt

A visual representation of 27 ancient and modern African writing systems found all over the continent.
isibheqe.org.za

#langsky #writingsystems

Wow! And is that the Ge'ez script in the exhibit description? I'm not familiar with Ethiopian writing systems but excited/encouraged to see what looks like text in the indigenous language! #museums #lingsky #Ethiopia #Lucy #WritingSystems #LanguagePolicy

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‘Think in Systems’ for Writers
Make Your Effort Count
#Productivity #writingcommunity #writingtips #writingsystems #medium

First writing session in a month. Thought I’d be rusty.

Turns out I was just holding pressure.

STRIDE didn’t punish the pause. It held the space.

I came back when I was ready.

Still surprised how good it feels.

#WritingSystems #EmotionalMomentum #STRIDE_v3.0

Tamazight written with the Tifinagh alphabet

#langsky #writingsystems

Source: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/06/275124/parliament-confirms-tamazight-tifinagh-alphabet

Writing systems are as diverse as the cultures that use them.

As language professionals, we navigate them all.
Because understanding starts with the written word.

#ATIO #WritingSystems #TranslationMatters #LinguisticDiversity #LanguageProfessionals #WorldOfWords

Original study:

@perezkelly et al., The Predictable #Evolution of #LetterShapes. An Emergent #Script of West #Africa Recapitulates Historical Change in #WritingSystems, Current Anthropology, online ahead of print January 03, 2022.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/717779

My top 10 writing systems:

ⵜⴼⵉⵏⵗ  - Tifinagh (Berber languages)

ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ - Inuktitut

ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ - Cherokee

ქართული ენა - Georgian

עברית - Hebrew

汉语 - Chinese simplified

සිංහල - Sinhala

བོད་སྐད - Tibetan
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ - traditional Mongolian

Հայերէն - Armenian

#langsky #writingsystems

Absorbing story of finding and deciphering world’s oldest known writing system. “At stake: the immortality conferred on those who make a once-in-a-century intellectual breakthrough.” Smithsonian article: bit.ly/4iAqvZ7 #writingsystems #archaeology #BritishMuseum [photo: Gary Todd/CC]

Fantastic article about different written scripts around the world and their history! I knew a lot of it already from research I did for a novel I’ve been working on, but some of it was new, and it’s one of the best overviews I’ve come across.

#language #linguistics #writingsystems #writing

The best response I’ve seen so far to the challenge of mapping writing systems. Brilliant work by @cecilecarto and @mdiplo.
FR (with interactive notes): https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/ecritures
EN: https://mondediplo.com/maps/writingsystems