Found an awesome new site today, while googling for Vietnamese tonal language, because somebody had claimed on #emacs that Vietnamese “has a total of 11 tones or something crazy”:
From the About page:
“Information about over 200 different writing systems. Each page contains an illustration of a writing system; details of its origin, usage, notable features and the language(s) written with it; a sample text, and useful links.
Some of the writing systems featured are used to write many different languages: notably the Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and Devanagari scripts. Details of some of the languages written with these scripts can also be found in this section.”
Awesome!
The section Undeciphered writing systems contained a link to the Voynich Manuscript. I remember that a long long time ago I was actually on that mailing list... 😄 Remember when people on the list were transcribing the pages, and somebody had programmed the first viewer to actually view the transcribed pages...