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#langsky Did you know that if you join the Endangered Writing Network, one benefit is access to our Discord server - a sort of forum inhabited by writing system and language geeks? And I mean that in the best possible way! 💜 viewsproject.wordpress.com/endangered-w...

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If it looks like there are two different fonts on this clay tablet from ancient Babylon, that’s because there are. In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.

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In Austria, autochthonous minorities had to fight for their right to bilingual topography for decades before an agreement was reached. So it was good news that last autumn the railway stations in the bilingual communities of Burgenland and Carinthia also received bilingual station signs!

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This is AMAZING 🤩

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It's #InternationalLegoClassicsDay #ILCD #ILCD25! Unfortunately I haven't had time to build anything this year so I'm going to have to make do with reposting my stop-motion guide to the early history of the alphabet in the Mediterranean from a few years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-J...

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Happy International Lego Classics Day! #ILCD #ILCD25 To celebrate, we're thinking through Classicists' least favourite question: why bother studying "dead" languages? Our Lego people will explain! viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/d...

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#ancientbluesky you do all know that it's International Lego Classics Day tomorrow, right? There is still time to get building - anyone can take part with a bit of Lego and enthusiasm. Lego Me is getting some inspiration in Pompeii... www.brickclassicists.com/ilcd #ILCD #ILCD25 Please share!

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At the design event in Bangkok, we launched a new book on Thai typography, a large collection of Thai fonts, and presented lab-based research on the performance and legibility of Thai. Read more here: www.typotheque.com/blog/new-tha...

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Research question--please RT to friends and colleagues. I know of several people who do automatic writing, and they all do it by hand. Does anyone know of anyone who does automatic writing using a keyboard???

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Today is the deadline for registering activities for Global Language Advocacy Day 2025 #GLAD25. You can contribute with art or poetry or organising an event or writing a blog post - all contributions are valuable. Build a space that honours language rights. www.coalitionforlanguagerights.org/glad25

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“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

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Good news: the World Endangered Writing Day talks and discussions, with cutting-edge insights into the nature of writing and the crisis in script loss, are now up at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis.... Watch, like, subscribe, and send your comments and questions back in return!

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I wrote about these footprints in clay in my book. It’s devastating. The baby might have been too young for a footprint to be made. Amazingly, we can follow the story of the twin toddlers into their later lives, which I find very moving.

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Thrilled to see @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social's and my article about "Ogam, cryptography and healing charms in the nineteenth century: observations on ‘The Minchin Manuscript’" published in the Proceedings of the @ria.ie today: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti.... It's an output of the OG(H)AM project,... /1

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If you want to add a bit of Aztec flare to your Valentine's this year, our Visiting Fellow Josh Fitzgerald's blog post will explain how! viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/b...

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A new publication by our VIEWS colleague Jordan Miller! A Bookish Burial: Kings,Scribes, and the Amduat Catalogue - open access version available soon. brill.com/display/book...

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I (Pippa) am honoured to be a guest speaker at @timbrookes.bsky.social 's wonderful discussion group on 16th February! I'll be sharing my new research, rapidly turning into a cross-cultural study of direction and layout in writing around the world, from ancient times to the modern day.

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If you missed our panel for World Endangered Writing Day, "Creating New Scripts for the World", you can now watch on YouTube! The speakers are Pule kaJanolintji, Juan Casco and Gerry Leonidas. youtu.be/4h_1npANUl0?...

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Now that I've finally figured it out myself, here's a little quiz! ❓🧐❓ Here's a set of two seals found in a certain book, one above the other. What script (and language(s?)) is this, what is the reading of these seals -- and whose seals are these accordingly? 🤔 1/

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Wonderful article on Cypriot graffiti in Egypt by former CREWS Visiting Fellow Beatrice Pestarino! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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Zed Icons contains two thousand icons designed for accessibility of information. www.typotheque.com/blog/zed-ico...

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This is a brilliant introduction to Xiao'erjing, Chinese written in Arabic script (thank you Oreen Yousuf for the link): sinoarabica.com/2025/02/03/x...

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Abdou Salam Fifen tells us about the creation of Bamum writing in our new blog post - bilingual edition in French and English. viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/y...

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Seriously brilliant discussion group - it's not often you can say such a thing is genuinely riveting, as yesterday's session was!

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A fascinating 1-minute watch for lovers of #typography! youtu.be/RB-eUbJG2GQ?...

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This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread. The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.

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It’s me! Come along on March 12th to hear about the trainee scribe at Mycenae who just can’t get the dative right!

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A reminder that we have some seminars on the ancient Levant and Mycenaean Greece coming up soon! Here is the zoom registration link: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... And here is some further information: viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/s...

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Today on the blog, VIEWS visiting fellow Emily Patterson writes about her research into the visual aspects of Roman writing. viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/r...

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For those interested in what actually cuneiform is and how it developed from a bunch of logograms in a single language (Sumerian) to a multilayered script used to write many languages, I dedicate a chapter to this in my book. I may or may not use emojis to explain this lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...

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#medievalbluesky please help!

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This is pretty cool -- how common is/was this kind of highlighting via outline script (?) in Mongolian? 🧐 < "A collection of 9 different works in Mongolian" (Oslo University Library, Etn. Mus. 38416 J) @ urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

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The Nsibidi script ca. 600-1909 CE: a history of an African writing system www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-nsibid...

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I am learning a lot about IsiBheqe SoHlamvu (AKA Ditema tsa Dinoko) by trying to write short words in it - here Pippa and Ben (me and my son). The lack of Unicode support can be frustrating, as you have to generate an image in a program to write.

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Thanks to all who made World Endangered Writing Day 2025 a huge success. I've just sent out the awards to those who deserve recognition for their work in preserving or reviving their traditional scripts. Check them out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/01/22/w... and offer your support!

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If you have interests in (especially minority) writing systems in south Asia, please have a look at this campaign launched by Satdeep Gill at Wikimedia to increase available multilingual information. And tell anyone who might be interested! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

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Happy World Endangered Writing Day! #WEWD25 We are launching our new resource for minority language communities today: Assess Your Language's Writing Needs. Find out more in our blog post. viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/w...

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