Sunday, 15 June 2014

Tibetan

Tibetan inscriptions date back to the 7th and 8th century. The origin of the Tibetan script is somewhat unknown. There are a few places that are thought to be the origin of it, but no-one knows which yet. However the script's structure shows us that it's ancestor is the Brahmi script of India.



Lawrence Lo. (No Date)
Tibetan. Ancient Scripts [Online]
Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/tibetan.html
Accessed on 15th June 2014, 22:21pm

Takri 

The Takri script derives from the Sarada script and was used in the western regions of the Himalayas. By the early 20th century, the Takri script has been replaced by Devanagari.


Lawrence Lo. (No Date)
Takri. Ancient Scripts [Online]
Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/takri.html
Accessed on 15th June 2014, 21:48pm
Phoenician

Many modern scripts can be traced through the Phoenician language, in fact Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek are all descended from the Phoenician Language. Phoenician is a direct descendent of the Proto-Sinaitic script. Similar to Proto-Sintaic, Phoenician is a "consonantal alphabet" that contains only letters representing consonants.



Lawrence Lo. (No Date)
Phoenician. Ancient Scripts [Online]
Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/phoenician.html
Accessed on 15th June 2014, 21:26pm
Aramaic

Aramaic was an international language that was used for trade in the ancient Middle East. The Aramaic language originated in what is now modern-day Syria, between 1000 and 600 BC. It spread over a great mass of land and became spoken from the Mediterranean coast to the borders of India. Derived from Phoenician, the Aramaic script became extremely popular and was adopted by all kinds of people, from those with a previous writing system to those without.


Lawrence Lo. (No Date)
Aramaic. Ancient Scripts [Online]
Available at http://www.ancientscripts.com/aramaic.html
Accessed on 15th June 2014, 21:00pm

Thursday, 12 June 2014

Turkic Runes

Used in the 8th to 9th century AD this script was written from right to left but was also found written from top and bottom.  This script was found in Central Asia. At first glance this script looks like it was derived from the Futhark script or German Runes. However the visual style of the script is more from the result of carving the letters on a hard surface instead of having a link to the Futhark script.


Lawrence Lo. (No Date)
Turkic. Ancient Scripts [Online]
Accessed on 12th June 2014, 13:16pm
Latin

Latin was the native language of Rome. When the Etruscans came they starting writing the language. Hundred years later they took their written language wherever they conquered. Because the Roman Empire was prestigious many barbarian tribes used Latin for court and adopted their alphabet to write their own language. This meant that Western Europeans all wrote using the Latin alphabet.


Lawrence Lo. (No Date)
Latin. Ancient Scripts [Online]
Accessed on 12th June 2014, 12:57pm
Old Norse

This was the language of the Vikings a North Germany language which was once spoken in Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, parts of Russia, the Faroe islands and Britain. Icelandic is the language that exists today that is closer to the Old Norse script. The written form has not changed a lot during the years ehile the spoken language has changed considerably .


Simon Ager. 2014
Old Norse. Omniglot [Online]
Accessed on 12th June 2014, 12:45pm