The Sancha Lipi—that is, Sancha scripts—are a family of related scripts from northern India. They were brought to my attention by the ever-vigilant Biswajit Mandal. An elementary teacher from Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, he is also a linguist, font creator, and linguistic content supplier for Omniglot and the Endangered Alphabets. He was one […]
At this very moment, someone is working to create a new, unique script for their culture and their language. We know of more than 125 scripts that were created by individuals on behalf of their people, most of which have struggled to gain acceptance and wide and prolonged usage, and for that reason they are […]
We’re used to reading the sad news that the last speaker of a language has died, and with them we lose not only that language’s vocabulary but its subtler infrastructure: its syntax, its tones, its use of tenses and sequences that may never have been recorded, or documented. The world of scripts is just as […]
Here’s the news several of you have already asked about: I think we met our Red List launch goal. Or rather you met our goal. (All I did was send out the annoying emails.) I can’t be entirely sure, as some of you chose to send checks rather than go through electronic transfers, and they […]
