{"id":16589,"date":"2026-02-12T18:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=16589"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:29:48","slug":"alphabets-and-writing-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/12\/alphabets-and-writing-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabets and writing systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who would not want to see all world&#8217;s writing systems organized in a structured way? This is what was done <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldswritingsystems.org\/\">by WorldWritingSystems.org<\/a> (referenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/23\/10\/the-worlds-writing-systems\">Jason Kottke<\/a>, including the partial list below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/world-scripts-01-600x338.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/world-scripts-01-600x338.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/world-scripts-01-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/world-scripts-01-150x85.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/world-scripts-01-768x433.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/world-scripts-01.webp 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And, on a more humorous tone (<a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2794\/\">from xkcd<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alphabet_notes-600x273.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alphabet_notes-600x273.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alphabet_notes-300x137.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alphabet_notes-150x68.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alphabet_notes.webp 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But do not forget the history of&#8230; counting languages. It is not as simple as you would think. Both because it is a daunting task, and because the mere idea of counting those is deeply rooted in history: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sapiens.org\/language\/world-languages-counting-methods\/\">Tackling the Impossibility\u2014and Necessity\u2014of Counting the World\u2019s Languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would not want to see all world&#8217;s writing systems organized in a structured way? This is what was done by WorldWritingSystems.org (referenced by Jason Kottke, including the partial list below). And, on a more humorous tone (from xkcd): But do not forget the history of&#8230; counting languages. It is not as simple as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18,35],"tags":[2525,1244,2549],"class_list":["post-16589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-sciences","tag-alphabet","tag-language","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16593,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions\/16593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}