Today–yes, this very day–we’re launching our next Kickstarter campaign: a book of Endangered Alphabets sudoku. Here’s the thinking. The entire idea of endangered alphabets is so, um, foreign to most people in the West I have to use every means at my disposal to introduce these remarkable scripts from around the world, and to make […]
The Sancha family of scripts have been used in the peaceful valleys of Kashmir as early as 9th CE and now are mostly used in present day Himachal Pradesh in India in the Sirmour, Solan and Shimla areas where they form an integral part of the heritage of these lands, especially in the practice of […]
As I’m sure you can imagine, I spend much of my time (and my amazing volunteers spend much of their time) looking for scripts that have little or no Internet footprint, that may or may not still exist, that may be symptoms of marginalized or even oppressed cultures, forced to live out on the fringes, […]
Many of you wrote in appreciation (or simply in humor) about Hans de Wolf’s column about the slippery 25th Dutch letter, which might be an ij digraph. Or not. Well, it’s time to raise the stakes, and I wouldn’t dare venture into this territory (especially as a bloody Englishman) without the guidance of David Stifter, […]
