script.htm
A collection by U Kyaw Tun, M.S. (I.P.S.T., U.S.A.). Not for sale. Prepared for students of TIL Computing and Language Center, Yangon, MYANMAR.
These pages are in Arial Unicode MS font. Please remember that not all Unicode fonts are alike. Myanmar characters are in gif picture format and you do not need any Myanmar font to read it. Myanmar spellings in both Myanmar script and in Romabama and are included. Romabama spellings are within { }, and words within < > are regular English words.
Scripts or Writing Systems
Definition of a script
Types of writing systems
Abjad - Consonantal alphabetic (Arabic)
Abugida - Alpha-syllabic alphabet (Devanagari, Myanmar)
Artificial abugida -- Phagspa
Alphabet -- C and V Alphabetic (Latin, Cyrillic)
Artificial alphabet (Armenian)
Syllabary (Katakana and Hiragana)
Logogram (Chinese, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Japanese)
Proto-Writing (Aztec)
Unknown (Phaistos disc)
What about ideographic?
Footnotes
References
An Elementary Pali Course, Ashin (Ven.) Narada Thera,
http://www.vipassana.info/pali%20contents.htm#Introduction
Ancient Scripts, Lawrence K Lo,
http://www.ancientscripts.com/phonetics.html
Daniel Jones English Pronouncing Dictionary, 16 ed, (DJPD16).
Cambridge University Press 2003.
Devanagari Script, Achariya,
http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/sanskrit/lessons/Devan/intro.html
Myanmar Thudda, volumes 1 to 5 (in Myanmar),
Text-book Committee, Basic Education, Ministry of Education, Myanmar, ca. 1986
Romanization table for Sanskrit and Prakrit,.Library of Congress,
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/sanskrit.pdf
Sanskrit and Sanscrito, Gabriel Pradiipaka and
Andrιs Muni, © 1999-2004
http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar/english/essentials/index4i.html
South Asian Languages, The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0,
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch09.pdf
Transliteration of Devanagari, D. Wujastyk, 1996Jun25
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/members/transliteration/html/translit.html
See my references:
various sources.
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