Scripts and languages

This is a site about the scripts of the world, and the languages they are used to write. The site provides information about the scripts and languages with links to other sites with in-depth descriptions of each. The site is a web application developed using the Ontopia Navigator framework, based on a topic map written by hand by Lars Marius Garshol.

The site contains information about 181 different scripts, which you can access through several different indexes. On the right you can see the site structure visualized.

by script, by language, by country, by type, by category, by transcriptions/translations, or by writing direction.

You can also do a structured search for the scripts you are interested in, or do a simple full-text search:

If you find errors or omissions you would like to see corrected on this site I would be very happy to be informed about them. This is $Revision: 1.107 $ of the topic map, last changed on $Date: 2008/07/21 10:58:26 $

The information on this site has mostly been collected from:

• The World's Writing Systems, by William Bright and Peter T. Daniels.
• Writing Systems of the World, by Akira Nakanishi.
• The Unicode mailing list

Some information has also been taken from related sites: http://www.ancientscripts.com/ http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ The errors, however, are all mine.