The Thai alphabet may be one of the best known Southeast Asian writing systems? But where did those ornate letters come from?
Thai is one of the many Southeast Asian alphabets that originate from the ancient … Read More
I am a calligrapher, so you can consider that I have a bias in that direction. I am older, so I have another bias in that I have spent most of my life writing things down … Read More
I am often asked how Persian can be written using Arabic script when it is not a Semitic language.
It might surprise you to learn that the majority of languages that use the Arabic writing system … Read More
The answer may be India. India certainly has a large inventory of spoken languages, over 2000 (see note at bottom) at a conservative estimate, and a great many of them are languages with a written heritage. … Read More
Sometimes there is a technology that is just so good that it gets adopted nearly universally. Typically it is something that is disarmingly simple, but amazingly effective. There also has to be a mechanism for it to be shared. … Read More
Nasta’liq is a style of writing the Arabic script, particularly the adapted version of the script sometimes called Perso-Arabic which is used to write Persian, Urdu, and formerly, Turkish. Developed in the 14th and 15th centuries during the … Read More
In 1988, Yi Nianhua, a woman in her 80s, spent many evenings scribbling elegant characters at a table in her kitchen in a small rice-farming village in Shangjiangxu, China. With only a blunt writing brush, the elongated script … Read More
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