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Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages

Online Writing Systems Reference

Omniglot is an online reference cataloguing the writing systems and languages of the world, including scripts with no Unicode allocation, maintained since 1998 and widely used as an accessible general reference on scripts and their history.

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URL
https://omniglot.com
Source Type
Reference Work
Reliability Tier
2
General-audience online writing systems reference maintained by a specialist publisher; used for classification and historical framing across many scripts, not primary evidence.
Sources
Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages
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Claims Backed By This Source (156 claims)

This source backs 156 claims across the atlas. As facts: 85 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 7 holds, 35 connected, 1 held Differently. Plus 27 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Scripts, 128 claims: 73 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 7 holds, 27 connected, 1 held Differently, 19 general references.
  • Articles, 24 claims: 8 well-attested, 8 connected, 8 general references.
  • Sources, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.

Well-attested

85

Articles

A Script Outliving Its Language: Ge'ez TodayEaster Island's Silent TabletsFragments of Meaning: Monks, Sutras and the Birth of KatakanaFrom Sutra Margins to Neon Signs: Katakana's Changing JobThe Alphabet Built for a Mission: Cyril, Methodius and the Slavic BibleThe Letters of the Torah: Why Script Matters to ScriptureTwo Syllabaries, One Origin: Hiragana and Katakana ComparedWomen's Hand: How Hiragana Opened Japanese Literature

Scripts

Ancient South Arabian ScriptArabic ScriptAramaic AlphabetBrahmiCuneiformCyrillic ScriptDevanagariEgyptian HieroglyphsGe'ez ScriptGlagolitic AlphabetGreek ScriptHan ScriptHangulHebrew Square ScriptHiraganaKatakanaLatin ScriptPhoenician ScriptRongorongo

Sources

Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages

Scholarly debate

1

Scripts

Aramaic Alphabet

Holds

7

Scripts

Ancient South Arabian ScriptAramaic AlphabetEgyptian HieroglyphsGe'ez ScriptHangulHebrew Square Script

Connected

35

Articles

A Script Outliving Its Language: Ge'ez TodayEaster Island's Silent TabletsFragments of Meaning: Monks, Sutras and the Birth of KatakanaFrom Sutra Margins to Neon Signs: Katakana's Changing JobThe Alphabet Built for a Mission: Cyril, Methodius and the Slavic BibleThe Letters of the Torah: Why Script Matters to ScriptureTwo Syllabaries, One Origin: Hiragana and Katakana ComparedWomen's Hand: How Hiragana Opened Japanese Literature

Scripts

Arabic ScriptCyrillic ScriptDevanagariGe'ez ScriptGlagolitic AlphabetGreek ScriptHan ScriptHangulHebrew Square ScriptHiraganaKatakanaLatin ScriptRongorongo

Held Differently

1

Scripts

Glagolitic Alphabet

General References

27

Articles

A Script Outliving Its Language: Ge'ez TodayEaster Island's Silent TabletsFragments of Meaning: Monks, Sutras and the Birth of KatakanaFrom Sutra Margins to Neon Signs: Katakana's Changing JobThe Alphabet Built for a Mission: Cyril, Methodius and the Slavic BibleThe Letters of the Torah: Why Script Matters to ScriptureTwo Syllabaries, One Origin: Hiragana and Katakana ComparedWomen's Hand: How Hiragana Opened Japanese Literature

Scripts

Ancient South Arabian ScriptArabic ScriptAramaic AlphabetBrahmiCuneiformCyrillic ScriptDevanagariEgyptian HieroglyphsGe'ez ScriptGlagolitic AlphabetGreek ScriptHan ScriptHangulHebrew Square ScriptHiraganaKatakanaLatin ScriptPhoenician ScriptRongorongo
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