The Endangered Alphabets are planning a major project to support the Mongolian people’s efforts to protect and promote their language and its beautiful traditional script, and we’ll need your help. We’re recruiting illustrators and Mongolian calligraphers and translators; we’ll also be launching a fundraiser to create a range of language tools, both educational and fun, […]
It is still remarkably rare for scholars to get involved in creating and promoting new writing systems, so it seems all the more worthwhile to pass along to you an article by Stephen Morey, an Australian scholar and expert in the Tai languages and scripts of South China, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. And as […]
Welcome to the third monthly Endangered Alphabets feature about calligraphy and type design–in indigenous and minority writing systems. Here’s the point. If a script exists only in historical documents, engravings, and inscriptions, it is all too easy to assume it is no longer in use, and the culture that created it has also been lost. […]
Last month, we started a new monthly Endangered Alphabets feature about calligraphy and type design–in indigenous and minority writing systems. Here’s the point. If a script exists only in historical documents, engravings, and inscriptions, it is all too easy to assume it is no longer in use, and the culture that created it has also […]
