How many writing systems are there in the world?
With over 7000 languages spoken on our planet, many have evolved throughout time, developing or adopting writing systems in order to record their language.
The Planet Project
How to design Your writing system (and which one to choose)
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Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
My animation takes you through the birth and evolution of writing. Watch the story of the world's scripts unfold, from the early cave days to modern writing ...
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World's Most Complicated Writing System (corrections in the description)
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What if writing didn't exist? - History of Writing Systems #1
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GEN141 - Modern Writing Systems
In the second E-lecture of this short series, Prof. Handke discusses the modern writing systems and exemplifies the main variants of logographic and ...
The Virtual Linguistics Campus
India's awesome hybrid alphabet thing - History of Writing Systems #10 (Alphasyllabary)
Not a syllabary. Not quite an alphabet. Totally Indian. Watch Ashoka discuss his land's exotic script and tell you his plans for this unique alphasyllabary.
NativLang
Awesome Writing Systems -- LIST #4
Some old, some new, some completely strange. Let's look as some of the coolest scripts from around the world! Charles Bliss' story: ...
Stuff You've Probably Wondered
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Ammar Almarzooq
Introduction to Writing Systems
A brief introduction to writing systems.
Evan Ashworth
How writing got civilized - History of Writing Systems #3 (Logographs)
Watch prehistoric pictures turn into written words as ancient civilizations around the world learn to write for the very first time! You took Thoth's Pill. Now your ...
NativLang
Writing Systems
What kind of writing system do you use? Fontstruct: http://fontstruct.com/
Ben DuMonde
World's Easiest Writing System: Origin of Hangul (corrections in the description)
CORRECTIONS: 1: I got Yin and Yang mixed up. Yin is associated with females and darkness and the rest, and Yang is associated with males and light and the ...
Xidnaf
Learn the Writing Systems of the World
An introduction to every living writing system used in the world today. An overview of the different types of scripts and how to recognise each of them (even if you ...
Kiwi Translation
The History of Writing - Where the Story Begins - Extra History
How did the ancient civilization of Sumer first develop the concept of the written word? It all began with simple warehouse tallies in the temples, but as the ...
Extra Credits
How Korea crafted a better alphabet - History of Writing Systems #11 (Featural Alphabet)
The Korean alphabet is better than yours. Meet the king who invented it and watch him work his linguistic magic in this chapter in the history of writing. You wake ...
NativLang
The Hardest Writing System! - an animated rant about learning Japanese
Japanese really does have the most complex writing system in the world. Here I spell out its history and my struggle to learn it. Subscribe for language!
NativLang
The Hardest Language To Spell
Which language has the worst spelling bees? This one. Xidnaf claims Thai is "World's Most Complicated Writing System": ...
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How The World's First Written Languages Spread
The introduction of writing systems changed the world. It allowed humans to physically express thoughts and language, as well as record events for future ...
Science Insider
Understanding the Japanese Writing System
Japanese writing uses not only one—but three different scripts! At the same time! Why? And how does this work? In this video you'll get to familiarize yourself ...
Academia Cervena
How Old is Written Sanskrit?
Writing Systems of the World video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmz42awTRsA Buy the poster: ...
UsefulCharts
Writing Systems
How long have we been writing? What sorts of character systems do we use? In this week's episode, we look at our written languages: where they came from, ...
The Ling Space
African Writing Systems
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HomeTeam History
How to Make an Awful Conlang- Episode 5 | The Writing Script
Got a new computer, so videos again. Thanks for the wait.
Connor Quimby
Decode unicode - the world's writing systems: Johannes Bergerhausen at TEDxVienna
Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen born 1965 in Bonn, Germany, studied Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. From 1993 to ...
TEDx Talks
Pronouncing pictures! - History of Writing Systems #4 (Rebus writing)
Watch ancient Sumerians figure out how to use pictures to write sounds for the first time in history. See why the Egyptians disagree with their approach. Meaning ...
NativLang
11 Ancient African Writing Systems That Demolish the Myth that Black People were Illiterate
Mastakongo Prez
How Egypt invented the alphabet - History of Writing Systems #7 (Abjad)
From Egyptian hieroglyphs to your alphabet, watch these miners turn fancy symbols into simple scratches that were all about the sounds. First marvel at ...
NativLang
What's hiding inside Maya glyphs - History of Writing Systems #6 (Syllabary)
Maya glyphs aren't just Mesoamerican eye candy. They're a working writing system! Unlike the thousands of logograms encountered in your journey so far, the ...
NativLang
Writing Systems of Equations Tutorial
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Liushu: The Six Writing Systems of Chinese
Project for Chinese 1. Pardon my tones.
Gabe Classon
How Chinese characters evolved | The Origin of Chinese characters | EXPLORE MODE
Chinese characters are beautifully designed and have an air of wisdom to them. But there's more to Chinese characters than aesthetics — they're a reflection of ...
Explore Mode
Tips for Learning Writing Systems (How I Learned to Read and Write Cyrillic)!
Learn with us and submit videos of you speaking in your target language! ~~~~ http://goo.gl/forms/4RgdxfGaHo Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/pp-patreon ...
Polyglot Progress
Chinese is NOT picture writing! - History of Writing Systems #5 (Determinatives)
Watch this ancient Chinese scribe figure out how to use a fixed set of characters to write limitless words in his language. How? By combining meaning writing ...
NativLang
Saki Mafundikwa: The intricate world of Afrikan writing systems
Saki Mafundikwa, author of "Afrikan Alphabets" and notable New York digital designer, founded Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts, Zimbabwe's first graphic ...
TEDTalentSearch
West African Writing Systems
The video makes it clear that West African writing systems are not recent inventions, and the people who use these scripts have been literate for thousands of ...
Christos Agopian
Brahmi Script Family
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ザーン_ランド
How to Make Your Own Writing System | Make Your Own Fantasy Language (Lesson Two)
How to Make Your Own Writing System as Part of Your Own Fantasy Language. Email me directly at: victor.salinas@grauwelt.com or leave your thoughts and ...
Grauwelt
Nigeria's lost system of writing — Nsibidi
Africa is home to about 2000 languages. But talking is not the only way people on the continent have interacted. Historically, written signs and symbols — such ...
DW Africa
Simon Ager - Diversity of Writing Systems:
There are many different alphabets and writing systems currently in use, and that were used in the past. Some, such as the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, are ...
Polyglot Conference
Reliving the history of writing - History of Writing Systems #12 (Recap)
This animated history of writing has taken you around the world and through the millenia. Now let's look back on your journey. Contemplate the various writing ...
NativLang
The birth of writing! - History of Writing Systems #2 (Pictographs in a cave)
Writing started out as pictures? Yep! Journey to a cave full of pictographs in ancient France and see how it all began. You just took Thoth's Pill. Now watch as ...
NativLang
