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As part of our World Endangered Writing Day 2025 celebration of calligraphy in minority scripts, we’ve compiled–well, Alana Brown did most of the work–this set of recommendations, mostly on Instagram, where you can see some of the rich profusion of the work being done to sustain minority writing through art. Reminder: you can register for the day’s live events HERE.

(Warning: both “writing” and “art” are loaded terms, and are used here as a kind of convenient shorthand.)

 

The parentheses indicate what scripts their featured calligraphy is in, although many of them do calligraphy in other scripts as well:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/zoroastrianheritage (Avestan)

Or, see the associated website: https://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/

https://www.instagram.com/hery_ramanda/ – I Putu Heri Ramanda (Balinese)

https://www.instagram.com/taipanlucero/ – Taipan Lucero (Baybayin)

https://www.instagram.com/manoskrpt/ – Mano Skrpt (Baybayin)

https://www.instagram.com/kannadatypography/ – Mohan Kumar E (Kannada)

https://www.instagram.com/kannada_calligraphy/ – Animisha S. Naganur (Kannada)

https://www.instagram.com/mondonggggg/ – Raymond B. Figueroa  (Kulitan)

https://www.instagram.com/borjigon_och/ – Borjigon Och (Mongolian)

https://www.instagram.com/tamir.art/ – Tamir Samandbadraa Purev (Mongolian)

https://www.instagram.com/ulzei/ (Mongolian)

https://mongolianstore.com/ (Mongolian)

Or, see the blog post about the Mongolian script and the various styles of Mongolian calligraphy, including the types of folded script that were featured: https://mongolianstore.com/mongolian-script/?srsltid=AfmBOooScZ4nDOb5LZ8-9NbWdy6ZbxQczjvGLIazkVvVKIsRIsl6RjYL 

https://www.instagram.com/callijatra/ (Ranjana)

Or, see their Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/callijatra/

https://www.instagram.com/aannda/ – Ananda K. Maharjan (Ranjana)

https://www.instagram.com/rolandhusedesign/ Roland Hüse (Rovas)

Or, see his account dedicated to Rovas: https://www.instagram.com/mivesrovas/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpq7WQSDX6u/ (Javanese)

https://www.instagram.com/charitas_modi_art/ (Modi)

https://www.instagram.com/sahli_rhi.art/?g=5 (Javanese)

https://www.instagram.com/momocalligraphy/ (Manchu)

https://www.instagram.com/s.amassakul/ (Tifinagh)

https://www.instagram.com/limbo.nis/ (Kulitan)

https://www.instagram.com/baybayindre/ (Baybayin)

https://www.instagram.com/jamyangchakrishar/ (Tibetan)

https://www.instagram.com/mongolian.calligraphy/ (Mongolian)

https://www.instagram.com/mongolian_calligraphy_49/ (Mongolian)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpADkOAzIn/ (Lanna)

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2uHLSDisI3/ (Glagolitic)

https://www.instagram.com/sarulipi/ (various scripts)

https://www.instagram.com/_tifinagh/ (Tifinagh)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpsDQMrDKEn/?img_index=1 (Glagolitic)

https://www.instagram.com/samtan_98/ (Mongolian)

And for something almost completely different–namely, a newspaper that is still entirely handwritten in Urdu calligraphy, see HERE.
Please by all means suggest other feeds that we should add! And as always, we are working on a shoestring budget, so if you feel like supporting this work, you can do so HERE, and we’ll be more than grateful.
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This post is sponsored by our friends at Typotheque.