háek
tilde
for tone
umlaut
virma
for vowels
dialects
Diamond Sutra
diaries
dictionaries
digamma
diglossia
digraphs
Dravidian languages
Dresden codex
Dutch
E
Egypt
Egyptian
decipherment
hieroglyphs cursive hieroglyphs, pl. 2
language; see also Coptic
texts see also demotic; hieratic
Elamite; see also protoElamite
e-mail
emblem glyphs
England
English
language
Middle English
Old English
texts
writing
Enmerkar
epsilon
Estonian
eta
eth
Ethiopic
Etruscan
Evans, Sir Arthur
F
Faliscan
features, phonological
Finnish
Florence
fonts, see typefaces
Förstemann, Ernst
France
French
futhark, see runes
G
gamma
Ge’ez, see Ethiopic
Georgian
German
Germanic languages
Germany
Genji, Tale of
Gilgamesh, Epic of
Glagolitic
glides, see semivowels
glottal stop
Gothic
Gothic letters, pl. 9
grammar, see linguistics
Greece
Greek
alphabet
language
texts see also Cypriot syllabary; Linear B
Greeks
Grotefend, Georg
Gujarati
Gurmukhi
Gutenberg, Johannes
Gutenberg Bible, pl. 9
H
Half Uncial, pl. 8
handwriting
han’gl; see also Korean
Hanunóo
Hebrew
language
Old Hebrew alphabet
Square Hebrew alphabet
texts
Hebrews; see also Judaism
Heian period
hieratic; see also Egyptian
hieroglyphs, see Anatolian
hieroglyphs; Cretan
hieroglyphs; Egyptian
hieroglyphs; Mayan
hieroglyphs
Hincks, Edward
Hindi
Hinduism
hiragana, see under kana
Hittite language
Hmong
Homer
homophones
Houston, Stephen
humanists
Hungarian
Hurrian language
Hus, Jan
I
Icelandic
ideograms
illustrations
immortality
India
Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
Indus Valley script
information technology
ink
instant messaging
International Phonetic Alphabet
Internet; see also World Wide Web
Ionia
Iranian languages
Ireland
Irish
Islam
Isthmian script
Italian
italic typestyles
Italy
J
Japan
Japanese
language
texts
writing; see also kana; kanji
man’ygana
modified Chinese
senmygaki
Java
Judaism
Jurchin
K
Kabardian
kana
hiragana
katakana see also Japanese
kanji; see also Chinese script
Kannada
kappa
Karen
Kashmiri
Kazakh
Kharoh
Khitan
Khmer
Kirghiz
Knorosov, Yuri Valentinovich
Knossos
Kober, Alice
Kb Daishi
König, Fredrich
Korea
Korean
language
texts
writing; see also han’gl
Kpelle
Kublai Khan
Kurdish
L
lambda
Landa, Diego de
Lao
Latin
language
texts
writing, see Roman alphabet
Latvian
law codes
leather (writing on)
Lepsius, Richard
letter names
letter styles
letter writing
libraries
ligatures
Linear A
Linear B, pl. 5
decipherment
lingua franca
linguistics
Lithuanian
L S
Lisu
literacy acquisition and instruction
literacy rates
literature
logoconsonantal writing
logograms
logosyllabaries
Loma
Lounsbury, Floyd
Lù Fxyán
Luther, Martin
M
Macedonian
magic
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Manchu
Manetho
Manipuri
Marathi
matres lectionis
Maya people
Mayan
decipherment
hieroglyphs, pl. 4
language
texts
medieval period
Mediterranean Sea
Meitei-Mayak; see also Manipuri
Mende
Mesoamerica
Mesopotamia
metal (writing on)
Methodius, Saint
Minoan civilization
Minos, King
minuscules
Moldovan
monasteries
Mongolian
morphemes
inflections/affixes
word cores
mother tongue, see native language
Muhammad
Munda languages
Murmu, Pandit Raghunath
musical notation
Mycenae
Mycenaean civilization
N
names
personal
place
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nara period
Naro
native language
Nefertiti
Nepali
Nestor, King
newspapers
Niebuhr, Carsten
Nile River
Nineveh
Njoya, King Ibrahim
N’ko alphabet
Norman Conquest
North Africa
nuclear writing
numerals
O
Oaxacan script
Ogham
Ol Chiki
Old South Arabian
Olmec civilization
omega
omicron
oracle bones, pl. 3
oral tradition
Oriya
Oscan
P
Palenque
Palestine
Pali
palm leaves (writing on), pl. 7
Palmyrene
Pnini
paper
papermaking
papyrus, pl. 2
parchment
Parthian
Pashto
pen
Persepolis
Persia
Persian
Middle Persian
Old Persian
Pahlavi
Sassanian
’Phags pa
Phaistos
Phaistos Disk
phi
Philae
Philippines
philosophy
Phoenician
alphabet
language
Phoenicians
phonemes
phonetic complements
pictograms
pnyn
pitch-accent
place of articulation
poetry
Polish
Portuguese
Prakrit
printing
movable type
xylography (woodblock printing)
printing press
Proskouriakoff, Tatiana
proto-Canaanite
proto-cuneiform
proto-Elamite
proto-writing
psi
Ptolemy V
publishing
punctuation
Pylos
Q
Qin dynasty
Qing dynasty
qoppa
quipu
Qur’n
R
radical, see determinative
Rawlinson, Henry
reading
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de
rebus writing
record keeping
Reformation, Protestant
religion; see also individual religions
Renaissance (European)
rho
Robert, Nicholas-Louis
Robertson, John
Roman alphabet
Roman Catholic Church
Roman Empire
roman typestyles
Romance languages
Romanian
Romanization
Rome
Rosetta Stone
runes; see also Turkic runes
Russian
S
Sabaean
Sacks, David
Sacy, Sylvestre de
Samarkand
san
Sanskrit
language
texts
writing
Santali
Sargon I
Scandinavian languages
Schele, Linda
Schliemann, Heinrich
schools
science
scribes
scriptures; see also Bible; Qur’n
scrolls
seals
Sejong, King
Semitic languages
semivowels
Sequoyah, pl. 6
Serbian
serifs
Setswana
Shan
Shang dynasty
Shi Huangdi, Emperor
Shinto
Sholes, Christopher Latham
Shtoku, Empress
Shü-mom
Sicily
sigma
silent letters
Sindhi
Sinhala
Sino-Tibetan languages
Slavic languages
Slavonic
Sogdian
Southeast Asia
Spain
Spanish
Spanish Conquest
spoken language(s)
nature of
number of
relationship to writing
standard language
stone (writing on)
stress (of words)
strokes (of a character)
Stuart, David
stylus
Sulawesi
Sumer
Sumerian
language
texts
writing, see under cuneiform
Sweden
syllabaries
syllables
syllabograms
synharmony
Syria
Syriac
T
T’aejong, King
Tajik
tallies
Tamil
Tangut
Tatar
Telugu
text messaging
textiles (writing on)
Thai
Theodosius, Emperor
theta
thorn
Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman languages
Tifinagh
Tigrinya
Tikal
tone
trade
Trajan’s column
transliteration/transcription
Tungus languages
Turkic languages
Turkic runes
Turkish
Turkmen
type
typefaces
typesetting
typewriter
typing
U
Ugaritic, see under cuneiform
Uighur
Ukrainian
Umbrian
Uncial
Unicode
upsilon
Urartian
Urdu
Uruk
Uzbek
V
Vai
Vedas
Venetic
Ventris, Michael
vernacularization
Vietnamese
Vikings
vowels
length
notation
W
Wadi El Hol
Wang Yi-Jung
Wani
Welsh
women, writing by
women’s script
wood (writing on)
Worcester, Samuel A.
word lists
word processing
word spacing
World Wide Web
writing
adaptation of
ambiguities in
attitudes toward
classification of
conservatism of
direction of
earliest
grammatical information in
invention of
legends regarding
nature of
permanence of
phonological properties of
power of
writing
spatial properties of
uses of
Wulfila
wynn
X
Xerxes
xi
X Shèn
Y
Yang, Shong Lue
Yi writing
yogh
Young, Thomas
Yucatán
Z
zero
zeta
Zhou dynasty
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