Undeciphered Scripts - Good Resource


	Undeciphered Scripts - Good Resource

invictus

12-8-2007 10:49 AM

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ancient scripts, alphabets, writing

invictus says:

This was one of my "archaic" clips that went private a long while ago for exceeding the character limit. I'm re-clipping it now because so many new clippers joined since then and I believe this is a great source on ancient scripts and writing systems.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/01ce018b-9270-44ed-a633-277775676398/664E01C8-2318-4D8B-AD2A-6041712B5C07/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm" href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.omniglot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.omniglot.com/img/52C26111-DE3C-44E9-8ADE-D5C838CDC730" alt="Omniglot - writing systems and languages of the world" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/index.htm"><STRONG>Writing systems</STRONG></A>:
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alphabetic.htm">abjads</A> |
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alphabets.htm">alphabets</A> |
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/syllabic.htm">syllabic alphabets</A> |
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/syllabaries.htm">syllabaries</A> |
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/semanto-phonetic.php">semanto-phonetic scripts</A>
<A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm">undeciphered scripts</A> |
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alternative.htm">alternative scripts</A> |
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/conscripts.htm">your con-scripts</A> |
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/index.htm">A-Z index</A> |
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/direction.htm">Direction index</A> |
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/languages.htm">Language index</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H1>Undeciphered scripts</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><P>The writing systems listed below have yet to be deciphered or have
 only been partially deciphered. In some cases the writing systems
 have been deciphered but the languages they were used to write
 remain a mystery.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H2>Vinča / Old European</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H2>Indus/Harappa script</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H2>Proto-Elamite</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H2>Old Elamite</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H2>Linear A</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H2>Phaistos Disk</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H2>Voynich Manuscript</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H2>Rohonc Codex</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H2>Rongo Rongo</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><H2>Other types of script</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm"><P><A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alphabetic.htm">Abjads</A>,
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alphabets.htm">Alphabets</A>,
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/syllabic.htm">Syllabic alphabets</A>,
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/syllabaries.htm">Syllabaries</A>,
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/semanto-phonetic.php">Semanto-phonetic writing systems</A>,
 Undeciphered scripts,
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alternative.htm">Alternative writing systems</A>,
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/conscripts.htm">Your con-scripts</A>,
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/index.htm">A-Z index</A>,
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/direction.htm">Direction index</A>,
 <A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/languages.htm">Language index</A>
</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/664E01C8-2318-4D8B-AD2A-6041712B5C07/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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