Alphabets
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Alphabets for the Deaf/Blind
Animated Alphabets
Children's Development of Writing
Hebrew
Origins of Alphabets
Phonetic Symbols
Alphabet versus the Goddess
In the bestselling book, The Alphabet Versus The Goddess,
Leonard Shlain proposes that the invention of writing, particularly alphabetic writing,
rewired the brains of the people who learned how to communicate using this culture-changing tool.
Great benefits to society followed.
However, a precipitous decline in feminine values manifested by women's status,
goddess veneration, nature, and representative art occurred in tandem.
alphabetvsgoddess.com/
Alphabet - wikipedia.org
An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols —
each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language,
either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet
John Higgins's silent alphabet
In 1968 an American linguist, answering the question "How do you pronounce TESOL?"
(the acronym of the Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) answered:
"T as in castle, E as in give, S as in island, O as in people, and L as in calm." In fact you can,
with some use of proper names and loan words, create a complete silent alphabet for English.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/museum/silent.html
Alphabets - omniglot.com
Writing systems: abjads, alphabets, syllabic alphabets, syllabaries, complex scripts
undeciphered scripts, alternative scripts, your con-scripts, A-Z index.
Alphabets: Armenian, Avestan, Bassa (Vah), Beitha Kukju, Coptic, Cyrillic, Elbasan, Etruscan, Fraser,
Georgian (Asomtavruli), Georgian (Nuskha-khucuri), Georgian (Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek, Hungarian Runes,
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), and more.
omniglot.com/writing/alphabets.htm
Coptic Alphabet
Samaritan alphabet
Unifon alphabet
The Unifon alphabet, which was created by John Malone in 1959,
is an alternative way of writing English based on the principle of one letter per phoneme.
omniglot.com/writing/unifon.htm
Download the Unifon Font
Phonetic Alphabets
These are not phonetic alphabets as in those used to guide pronounciation,
rather they are a selection of alphabets used, particularly by radio operators, to spell out words.
NATO & International Aviation, British Forces 1952, RAF 1942-43, Telecom B, British A or International,
NY Police, French, German, Italian, Spanish.
morsecode.scphillips.com/alphabet.html
Alphabets for the Deaf/Blind
Moon Type
The Moon System of Embossed Reading.
The majority of people who go blind in later life are unable to master the small dots
of the braille system. For such people the Royal National Institute
for the Blind provides an easier alternative system of embossed type.
bsblind.co.uk/full/moon/moontype.htm
Deafblind Manual Alphabet
A graphical image of the Deafblind Manual Alphabet.
deafblind.com/card.html
Sign Language Alphabets from all over the world
Braille - wikipedia.org
The Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write,
and was the first digital form of writing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille
Braille script - omniglot.com
Braille is a writing system which enables blind and partially sighted people to read and write through touch.
It was invented by Louis Braille (1809-1852), a French teacher of the blind.
omniglot.com/writing/braille.htm
Moon alphabet - omniglot.com
The Moon alphabet was invented by Dr. William Moon (1818-1894). Dr Moon lost his sight completely
at the age of 21 after being partially sighted throughout his childhood.
omniglot.com/writing/moon.htm
Braille and ASL Specialty Fonts
Braille and Sign language fonts, True type, postscript for Windows and Macintosh.
tsbvi.edu/resources/1087-download-braille-and-asl-specialty-fonts
Animated Alphabets
Spin Animated Alphabet - IconBAZAAR
Permission is granted for limited personal use of up to twenty (20) images from ALL collections.
ALL commercial or institutional use requires licensure.
iconbazaar.com/alphabets/animated/spin/
Mystic Animated Alphabet
Animated Alphabets - virtuallandmedia.com
Sets of transparent animated GIFs.
virtuallandmedia.com/ani-text.htm
Web Diner's Alphabets and Icons for Web Pages
A choice menu of downloadable alphabet graphics, including deco and script alphabets in a variety of colors,
textures and styles. Don't miss the gold and two toned alphabets.
webdiner.com/alpha/alpha.htm
Children's Development of Writing
(PDF) - Young in Art
A developmental look at child art.
artjunction.org/young_in_art.pdf
Early Writing Development
Though most children in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten are approximately the same age,
their writing levels usually have a wide range. Some children may be scribbling,
but can tell you what their pictures are about.
lindaslearninglinks.com/earlywrtgdev.html
Stages of Childhood Writing
The earlier you encourage drawing/writing, the earlier you will see these stages.
literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/PACT/section1.html
Hebrew
Hebrew alphabet - wikipedia.org
The Hebrew alphabet,
known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script,
block script, or more historically, the Assyrian script,
is used in the writing of the Hebrew language, as well as other Jewish languages,
most notably Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet
Hebrew Alphabet
Vowels and Points, Styles of Writing, Transliteration, Numerical Values of Words.
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/alephbet.html
Origins of Alphabets
Invention of the Alphabet
Proto-Canaanite, also known as Proto-Sinaitic, was the first consonantal alphabet.
Even a quick and cursory glance at its inventory of signs makes it very apparent of this script's Egyptian origin.
ixoloxi.com/alphabet/index.html
History, Development and Evolution of the World's Writing Systems
Writing came about much later than spoken language.
It is not possible to determine which Language Family a language belongs to by looking at the writing system.
Writing systems can be deployed for political or religious reasons as well as linguistic ones.
krysstal.com/writing.html
Proto-Hebrew alphabet
The Proto-Hebrew or Early Aramaic alphabet was developed sometime during the late 10th or early 9th century BC and
replaced Assyrian cuneiform as the main writing system of the Assyrian empire.
omniglot.com/writing/aramaic.htm
Phoenician Alphabet
The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century B.C.
phoenicia.org/alphabet.html
Evolution of Alphabets
This page is part of the course material for "History of the Alphabets" taught by Prof.
Robert Fradkin at University of Maryland.
Animations showing the evolution of: Cuneiform character set, Phoenician character set, Greek character set,
Arabic Character set, Square Aramaic/Hebrew character set, Modern Cyrillic character set, Latin character set.
terpconnect.umd.edu/~rfradkin/alphapage.html
Origin of the Alphabet
The original alphabet was developed by a Semitic people living in or near Egypt.
They based it on the idea developed by the Egyptians, but used their own specific symbols.
webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/alphabet.html
Phonetic Symbols
Resources For Studying Spoken English
IPA Phones and Phonemes of English, Variation in the sounds of English, Speech Waveform Analysis, Text to Speech (TTS) Synthesizers,
Speech Recognition, Archives and Comprehensive Lists.
faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources
Phonetic Picture - Writing
A phonetic picture-writing is a picture writing, which also
can be read phonetically. For its ideograms are composed of specially designed letters, so that
a thing or idea (e.g. "face") is shown. When reading these ideograms phonetically, the result
is an artificial language with clear phonetics.
ieao.de/lautbildschrift-english/lautbildschrift.htm
International Phonetic Alphabet
International Phonetic Association (IPA), Phonetics, Reproduction of The International Phonetic Alphabet
(Revised to 1993, Updated 1996).
langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/
Sound Symbolism
Study of the apparent appropriateness of the sound-structures of many individual words for their meanings.
percepp.com/soundsmb.htm
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