100 Writing Systems of the World

<p>This book is a catalogue of 100 different writing systems around the world with full character charts and basic information on the left page and blank graph paper on the right page to start immediately experimenting all the different scripts. This is a great book for language enthuasiasts who want to see how different writing systems look like. This book can also be useful to identify unknown samples of writing or reading the signs while traveling. </p><p><br></p><p>The basic information provided above the character charts include:</p><ul><li>script type (abjad abugida alphabet syllabary logography) </li><li>writing direction </li><li>invention time </li><li>time period when the script was used if it's not used anymore </li><li>regions with predominant usage</li><li>list of languages associated with the script</li></ul><p><br></p><p>So the theory part is kept to a bare minimum and there are better books for people who want to read more about the history of different writing systems. </p><p><br></p><p>The book includes both modern and ancient writing systems around the world. From every continent and every different type of writing systems. </p><p><br></p><p>Writing systems by type: </p><ul><li>43 abugidas</li><li>33 alphabets</li><li>14 abjads</li><li>10 syllabaries</li><li>2 logographic scripts </li></ul><p><br></p><p>Writing systems by continent: </p><ul><li>70 Asia</li><li>16 Europe</li><li>9 Africa</li><li>4 the Americas</li><li>1 Oceania</li></ul><p><br></p><p>There are two additional sections in the end of the book. One section containing numerals in 35 different writing systems. The last section is design your own writing system where you can write down your own writing system.</p><p><br></p><p>Full list of writing systems: Arabic Aramaic Armenian Avestan Avoiuli Balinese Bamum Batak Baybayin Bengali Brahmi Buhid Burmese Carian Chakma Cham Cherokee Coptic Cypriot Cyrillic Deseret Devanagari Egyptian hieroglyphs Elbasan Etruscan Fraser (Old Lisu) Futhark Garay Ge'ez Georgian Glagolitic Gothic Greek Gujarati Gurmukhi Hangul Hanun��'o Hanzi Hebrew Hiragana Inscriptional Pahlavi Inscriptional Parthian Inuktitut Javanese Kaithi Kannada Katakana Kayah Li Kharosthi Khmer Lao Lepcha Limbu Linear B Lontara Lycian Lydian Malayalam Mandaic Manichaean Mayan Meitei Mayek Mongolian Nabataean New Tai Lue N'Ko Odia Ogham Ol Chiki Old Hungarian Old Permic Old Turkic Osmanya Phags-pa Phoenician Rejang Samaritan Saurashtra Shavian Sinhala South Arabian Soyombo Sumerian cuneiform Sundanese Sylheti Nagri Syriac Tagbanwa Tai Le Tai Tham Tai Viet Tamil Telugu Tengwar Thaana Thai Tibetan Tifinagh Tocharian Ugaritic cuneiform Vai.</p>