⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. While researchers of writing systems generally use some of the same core terminology, precise definitions...

symbols actually constitute a writing system at all. Some researchers have claimed to be able to decipher certain writing systems, such as those of Epi-Olmec...

Writing Systems Research was a peer-reviewed academic journal, founded in 2009, relating to the analysis, use and acquisition of writing systems. The editors...

rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according...

interpreter or activator of a text is called a reader. In general, writing systems do not constitute languages in and of themselves, but rather a means...

where writing is thought to have developed independently. Mesoamerican scripts deciphered to date are a combination of logographic and syllabic systems. They...

The following is a list of writing systems that are used in Indonesia. ^Status: Active: writing systems that are still in use, managed, and actively taught...

Dris (2016-01-02). "Writing and rewriting Amazigh/Berber identity: Orthographies and language ideologies". Writing Systems Research. 8 (1): 1–2. doi:10...

E. Gnanadesikan (2017) Towards a typology of phonemic scripts, Writing Systems Research, 9:1, 14–35, DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2017.1308239 "The second is...

of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures...

Various Mongolian writing systems have been devised for the Mongolian language over the centuries, and from a variety of scripts. The oldest and native...

A number of writing systems have been used to transcribe the Somali language. Of these, the Somali Latin alphabet is the most widely used. It has been...

The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists...

complementary transliteration systems (generally Pinyin) as a means of representing the pronunciation of Chinese. Chinese writing is first attested during...

Akuru" was used historically by Maldivians to distinguish their own writing system from foreign scripts. Foreign scripts were learned and introduced at...

can distinguish one word from another in a given language. Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken...

Proto-writing consists of visible marks communicating limited information. Such systems emerged from earlier traditions of symbol systems in the early...

Meletis, D. (2019), The grapheme as a universal basic unit of writing. Writing Systems Research. doi:10.1080/17586801.2019.1697412 The Cambridge Encyclopedia...

a type of ideogram. As true writing systems emerged from systems of pure ideograms, later societies with phonetic writing were often compelled by the...

characters in cuneiform script. A writing system that primarily uses logograms is called a logography. Non-logographic writing systems, such as alphabets and syllabaries...

Elhija (2014), "A new writing system? Developing orthographies for writing Arabic dialects in electronic media", Writing Systems Research, 6:2, 190-214, doi:10...

the history of writing systems, the Phoenician script also marked the first to have a fixed writing direction—while previous systems were multi-directional...

of influences from the orthographic practices of other languages. Writing systems associated with particular dialects have been developed by adapting...

use of more than one writing system for the same language. Synchronic digraphia is the coexistence of two or more writing systems for the same language...

(EuroSLA), and co-founder of the Oxford University Press journal Writing Systems Research. He died in December 2021 at the age of 81 and was survived by...

linguistic analysis of the Lao writing system and its suitability for minority language orthographies. Writing Systems Research, 6(1), 25–40. doi:10.1080/17586801...

is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially...

who are purported by traditions to have invented alphabets or other writing systems, whether this is proven or not. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa - German...

January 2014). "A new writing system? Developing orthographies for writing Arabic dialects in electronic media". Writing Systems Research. 6 (2). Informa UK...

Dris (2016-01-02). "Writing and rewriting Amazigh/Berber identity: Orthographies and language ideologies". Writing Systems Research. 8 (1): 2–5. doi:10...