Subject pages attached to craig:topic/alphabet

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1.	Evolution of Alphabets : Animated representations. A fascinating look at the way languages develop over time. URL: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin
2.	Chinese Character Genealogy Relation of characters to basic forms, etc. URL: http://zhongwen.com/
3.	Tibetan writing There are many different forms of the Tibetan language. There is a written version of the language, which contains 30 characters. URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/25772/site/nojavaenglish/writing.html
4.	Morse Code and the Phonetic Alphabets [extended] List of the Morse Code and Alpha, Bravo, Charlie lists in various languages/settings. URL: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch/refer/alphabet2.html
5.	Learning Hangul with Soyongdori Learn Hangul, the Korean alphabet, in English with dynamic html, animated gifs and real audio. URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/20746/
6.	Cherokee alphabet Cherokee alphabet and pronunciations. URL: http://www.gbso.net/Skyhawk/Cher-Alf.htm
7.	Animated Chinese Characters Click on any Chinese character to see how to draw it. URL: http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat/chargif/
8.	George Bernard Shaw's Universal Alphabet Below is the opening page of George Bernard Shaw's play Androcles and the Lion, written in the alphabet that resulted from the contest Shaw established in his will. (A long-time supporter of spelling reform, Shaw hoped the new alphabet would be taught in schools and eventually replace the current English writing system.) URL: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec1/shaw.htm
9.	Samples of Modern and Ancient Alphabest About 20 alphabets. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Pantheon/6077/alefbet.htm
10.	Omniglot: Writing Systems [Alphabetic] [Syllabic] Good links to world alphabets, syllabaries, and Logographic writing systems. URL: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/
11.	Your name in ... [inuit] Websites to write your name in various alphabets. URL: http://www.omniglot.com/links/yournamein.htm
12.	Glagolitic alphabet Used to write: Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic, a language spoken by the Southern Slavic tribes who invaded the Balkan peninsula in the 6th and 7th century AD. These people later became known as Bulgarians, Serbs and others, so Old Church Slavonic is also called Old Bulgarian. URL: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/glagolitic.htm

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Old Persian Cuneiform Darius I (550-486 BC) claims credit for the invention of Old Persian Cuneiform in an inscription on a cliff at Behistun in south-west Iran. The inscription dates from 520 BC and is in three languages - Elamite, Babylonian and Old Persian. Some scholars are sceptical about Darius' claims, others take them seriously, although they think that Darius probably commissioned his scribes to create the alphabet, rather than inventing it himself. URL: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/syllabic.htm

14.	Titirausiq nutaaq Scan of the inuit alphabet. URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Pantheon/6077/Images/inuit.jpg
15.	Omniglot Inukitut syllabary The Inuktitut syllbary was adapted from the Cree syllabary, which itself was adapted from the Ojibwa syllabary. Both the Ojibwa and Cree syllbaries were invented by James Evans, a Wesleyan missionary, between about 1840 and 1860. URL: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/inuktitut.htm