abjad abugida allophone alphabet altgr key alt key ampersand ancient egypt ancient near east application software arabic alphabet arabic language asemic writing at sign berber languages bi-directional text boustrophedon braille bronze age calligraphy canadian aboriginal syllabics character encoding cherokee language chicago chinese character chinese grammar chinese language conceptual system consonant consonant cluster control key cornell university cuneiform script cursive devanagari diacritic east asian languages egyptian hieroglyphs electronic document english language featural alphabet flag semaphore formal language genealogy of scripts derived from proto-sinaitic glyph grapheme greek alphabet greek language hangul hebrew language history of the alphabet history of writing horizontal and vertical writing in east asian scripts ideogram illinois india indonesia indonesian language indus script information sign inherent vowel international electrotechnical commission international organization for standardization international phonetic alphabet japanese language jiahu kana keyboard layout korean language language languages of the philippines latin latin alphabet linear b linguistics list of inventors of writing systems list of languages by first written accounts list of languages by writing system list of writing systems logogram louis braille lower case map mathematics maya script mesoamerican writing systems michael everson middle bronze age alphabets mirror writing mnemonic modifier key monier monier-williams morpheme morse code mycenae neolithic neologism official script old persian cuneiform olmec operating system orality orthography pahawh hmong painting pasigraphy penmanship percent sign phoenician alphabet phoneme phonetic transcription pictogram place of articulation pre-columbian punctuation puyi semantics semaphore semaphore line semi-syllabary semitic semitic languages shift key shorthand sign language southeast asia spelling spoken language sumerian language syllabary syllable syllable onset syllable rime symbol symbolic communication symbolic system tifinagh tortoise transliteration typeface undeciphered writing systems unicode universal character set vowel western culture william caslon word writing writing implement written language