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Cypriot

... Systems : Syllabaries : Cypriot The Cypriot syllabary was used in Cyprus from the eleventh century BCE to around the end ... and a simple system of numerals. In origin the Cypriot syllabary is clearly related to Linear A and Linear B , though not ...

Wiki - archaica - 7 Jun 2007 - 11:55am - 0 comments

political/cultural aesthetics of type

... forward to your books on this subject :) The Cherokee syllabary makes The Cherokee syllabary makes an interesting case also. Apart from the politics of whether to ...

Forum topic - jlg4104 - 15 Feb 2007 - 9:20am - 32 comments - 0 attachments

[P22] Sale Font + Free Font = :^)

... Canadian Syllabics is a more calligraphic version of the syllabary developed by Reverend James Evans for the languages of the native ...

News - paul d hunt - 17 Jan 2007 - 12:26pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Low-cost Word processing program (PC) that supports OT ligaturing?

... North Carolina. They wanted a smaller version of the Syllabary, which my wife made up. When we were up at Cherokee, one of the ... It occurred to me that since we’re dealing with a syllabary, and one already in Unicode to boot, it wouldn’t be that hard to ...

Forum topic - charles_e - 16 Dec 2006 - 5:10pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

A Japanese version of a logo made of latin letters

... Katakana, but due to the sound-poor nature of the Japanese syllabary, you will get something to the extent of "GU RI — GU". The ...

Forum topic - Perpixel - 12 Oct 2006 - 1:34pm - 3 comments - 1 attachment

Quintessential American font?

... types (there are a few) are based on the 85-character syllabary and I have only, unfortunately, seen them typeset in specimens and ...

Forum topic - chadbrewer - 24 May 2005 - 8:37pm - 104 comments - 0 attachments

Need Help with Cree Font

... give a talk at the next Atypl in Helsinky on the Cherokee syllabary. Maybe part of is research can be of help (?) ... yes, I Peter Enneson: yes, I noticed that too. The syllabary has two major symmetry groups. One, which I'll call "delta", has an ... with the shapes, though, I observed that the logic of the syllabary is organized around reflections, not rotations. KI becomes KE with a ...

Forum topic - jim_rimmer - 7 Feb 2006 - 6:32am - 48 comments - 1 attachment

What would Ross Mills say?

... The name is bad enough, and the appropriation of Inuktitut syllabary and its "strangely alien shapes and squiggles" is adding insult to ... very much Chris, it's very much based on the Inuktitut syllabary: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/inuktitut.htm That’s a ...

Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 7 Mar 2006 - 10:03pm - 42 comments - 0 attachments

Writing Systems wiki

... (jamo) into syllabic blocks, is an alphabet and not a syllabary, because it is the jamo that are the basic building blocks of the ... into syllabic blocks, is an alphabet and > not a syllabary, because it is the jamo that are the basic building > blocks of ...

Forum topic - John Hudson - 8 May 2005 - 5:52pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Sinister Humanist

... as for righthanders. World-wise, there are the Ethiopic syllabary, Armenian, Coptic (I'm sure there's one or two missing ...

Forum topic - grod - 19 Dec 2004 - 5:28pm - 29 comments - 0 attachments