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  2. Mawangdui Silk Texts - Wikipedia

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    The earlier of two silk texts (or the text from which it was copied) may have been a scribe taking dictation as quickly as they could write. The scribe wrote down the part of each character that indicates its pronunciation, with the intention of later recopying the text with the appropriate meaning components for the abbreviated characters.

  3. List of constructed scripts - Wikipedia

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    Bharati [2] 2016-* Prof. V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy and others Alternative common script of major Indian languages (both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian) to facilitate easy communication Blissymbol: Blis: 1949: Charles K. Bliss: Conceived as a non-spoken (soundless), purely ideographic script Bopomofo: Bopo: 1913: Zhang Binglin

  4. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  5. Silk 2 - Wikipedia

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    Silk 2 is a 1989 Philippine-American film. A sequel to 1985's Silk, it was directed by Cirio H. Santiago for New Horizons and was distributed by Concorde Pictures. The film was shot in Los Angeles and the Philippines, but set in Hawaii. [1] Star Monique Gabrielle had appeared in several films for New Horizon. She said, "I like the weapons.

  6. Dunhuang manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript. Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Frenchman Paul Pelliot and British man Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu, China, from 1906 to 1909.

  7. Constructed writing system - Wikipedia

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    In the rare cases where a script evolved not out of a previous script, but out of proto-writing (the only known cases being the Cuneiform script, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Chinese script and the Mayan script, with ongoing debate as to whether the hitherto-undeciphered Indus script and Rongorongo are true writing or proto-writing), the process ...

  8. Script typeface - Wikipedia

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    Script typefaces are based on the varied and often fluid stroke created by handwriting. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are generally used for display or trade printing, rather than for extended body text in the Latin alphabet.

  9. Undeciphered writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Seals showing Indus script, an ancient undeciphered writing system Page 32 of the Voynich manuscript, a medieval manuscript written with an undeciphered writing system. Many undeciphered writing systems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist.