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Explore the history and principles of the world's writing systems

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Script Types

Explore alphabets, syllabaries, logographies, and other writing system types.

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How Scripts Are Born

How were the first writing systems invented? Explore the origins of script creation.

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Script Families

From Phoenician to Hangul — trace the family trees of writing systems.

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Decipherment Stories

Rosetta Stone, Linear B, Maya — the dramatic decipherment of ancient scripts.

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What is Unicode?

Learn how Unicode unifies all writing systems into a single standard.