The Meroitic script consists of two alphasyllabic scripts developed to write the Meroitic language at the beginning of the Meroitic Period (3rd century...

Meroë (/ˈmɛroʊiː/; also spelled Meroe; Meroitic: Medewi; Arabic: مرواه, romanized: Meruwah and مروي, Meruwi; Ancient Greek: Μερόη, romanized: Meróē) was...

the so-called "post-Meroitic" period. This period saw a decline of urbanism, the disappearance of the Meroitic religion and script as well as the emergence...

syllabics Pollard script Pitman shorthand Xiao'erjing Tengwar Ihathvé Sabethired Meroitic (an alphabet with an inherent vowel) – Meroitic, Old Nubian (possibly)...

Brahmic scripts and Kharosthi, the cursive Meroitic script, which developed in Nubia (today in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan), and the Ge'ez script. Many...

"Symposium on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic script" in Cairo in 1974, the "Black Hypothesis" and the notion of a homogeneous...

fact that it is inscribed with one of the longest known texts in the Meroitic script. The stela was found by the British archaeologist John Garstang in...

(modern Sudan) adds three Coptic letters, two letters derived from Meroitic script, and a digraph of two Greek gammas used for the velar nasal sound....

its direct descendant. Related to this are the Demotic signs of the Meroitic script and the borrowed Demotic characters used in the Coptic alphabet and...

or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. The Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems. They are used throughout...

Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. Some scripts support...

with additional characters borrowed from the Greek and Meroitic scripts. The Coptic script was the first Egyptian writing system to indicate vowels...

Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ , /sə-/ sih-RILL-ik, sə-) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in...

Mediterranean basin. In the history of writing systems, the Phoenician script also marked the first to have a fixed writing direction—while previous systems...

The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards...

variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is a unicameral abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language...

The Meroitic language (/mɛroʊˈɪtɪk/) was a language of uncertain linguistic affiliation spoken in Meroë (in present-day Sudan) during the Meroitic period...

you may see unjoined Syriac letters or other symbols instead of Syriac script. The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken...

(2009-07-29). "N3665: Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document...

Manichaean (Unicode block) Mayan Numerals (Unicode block) Meroitic Cursive (Unicode block) Meroitic Hieroglyphs (Unicode block) Nabataean (Unicode block)...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of letters. The Glagolitic script (/ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk/ GLAG-ə-LIT-ik, ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰻⱌⰰ, glagolitsa) is the oldest known...

Antiquity; The Peopling of Ancient Egypt & the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script Yosef Ben-Jochannan, author: African Origins of Major "Western Religions";...

Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 ms3nd; modern Arabic: الْمُسْنَد musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late...

This article contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of...

(2009-07-29). "N3665: Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document...

of these scripts had the same angular letter shapes suited for epigraphy, which would become characteristic of the runes and related scripts in the region...

The Thai script (Thai: อักษรไทย, RTGS: akson thai, pronounced [ʔàksɔ̌ːn tʰāj]) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages...

the Deciphering of Meroitic Script. Cheikh Anta Diop (ed.) (1978), The peopling of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of Meroitic script: proceedings of the...

for the representation of names of scripts, is an international standard defining codes for writing systems or scripts (a "set of graphic characters used...

The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30-40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim...