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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
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Tibetan script - used for writing Tibetan and Dzongkha, the national languages of Tibet and Bhutan respectively, as well 30 other languages in the region
DEVANAGARI LETTER RA - a character used in many South Asian writing systems, whose shape changes depending on what letters come before and after it.
Khmu - spoken primarily in Laos and written in the Lao and Latin scripts except in some isolated villages where it is written in the Duota script
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 |
| Languages, scripts, and writing systems | blog post |
| Phonetics in the Han scripts | text entry |
| Miao Unicode Font | software entry |
| Mro Unicode Font | software entry |
| Unicode Status [Egyptian Hieroglyphs] | text entry |
| Indonesian and Philippine Scripts and extensions not yet encoded or proposed for encoding in Unicode as of version 6.0 | academic paper |
| Revised Proposal for Encoding the Philippine Scripts in the UCS | academic paper |
| Examples of ano teleia use | web page |
| The Hand Book | book |
| A New Dictionary of Sign Language | book |
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 © 2013 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.