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News
2012.05.02 New ways to learn more about ScriptSource and writing systems computing - watch our videos
on this page (or on our 
ScriptSource channel) and
try the new RSS feeds on our blog pages.
2012.03.14 A refreshed home page, and many new features, including discussions. Ask a question and get people to respond through real-time comments!
2012.02.07 Comments! You can now comment - in real-time - on any entry, source or need. We've also added many more scripts, and reorganized our list of scripts to make browsing easier.
2011.11.03 Unveiling of new Topics feature that allows for contributions to be associated with specific technical or linguistic topics. Go to the Topics page
Stats
ScriptSource contains over 125,000 pages, covering
110489 characters and sequences
7781 languages and groups
237 scripts
4652 writing systems
1575 contributed entries
1188 reference sources
Explore
Hanunoo script - used for writing the Hanunoo language spoken in the Southern Philippines
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH - 3459 - a Han ideograph meaning frivolous, flippant, capricious, or playful
Koya - spoken in South India, and written in the Devanagari, Telugu, Oriya and Latin scripts
Phonetic Writing Systems - scientific systems for representing speech sounds, including the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
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Recent Contributions & Discussions
Here are some of the most recent contributions to ScriptSource:
| Title | Type |
| Using RSS feeds | text entry |
| Towards a system for organizing glyph collision rules | blog post |
| Script Description | text entry |
| Script Description | text entry |
| Syllable Structure and Reordering in Tai Viet | file entry |
| ALA-LC Romanization Tables | web page |
| Balinese script notes | web page |
| Balinese Character Picker | web page |
| Applications that support Graphite | web page |
| The Balinese Alphabet | web page |
Current Software Needs
Can you help meet a need? Offer to help. Here are several sample needs:
| Title | Category | Status |
| Addition of Bold and Italic face to Abyssinica | Font | Unmet |
| Handwriting font for West Africa | Font | Unmet |
| Modifiable Lao fonts in multiple styles | Font | In progress |
| Integrate Graphite into Harfbuzz | Software | In progress |
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Reference
Copyright © 2011 SIL International and released under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (CC-BY-SA) unless noted otherwise. Language data includes information
from the Ethnologue. Script information
partially from the ISO 15924 Registration
Authority. Some character data from The Unicode Standard Character
Database and locale data from the Common Locale Data Repository.
Used by permission.