Endangered Alphabets Press @EndangeredAlpha

Coming in 2023, a new private press focussed on fine hand-printing in rare and endangered alphabets and languages. Joined September 2022

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Dr Flan @thehistoriann

3 years ago

Very rare example of a statement signed in Baybayin, the Philippine script widely used in Luzon in the 16th century.

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Not sure why it has taken me so many years to realise that lithography is often more revealing than typography of how a writing system was thought about at a particular place and time. Tellicherry, 1859.

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Grigory Kessel @grigory_kessel

3 years ago

There have been numerous Syriac scribes throughout history, but only a few of them ascended to the position of patriarch. In this thread, I will share some insights about one such scribe and his recently discovered manuscript. 1/10 #syriacmanuscript #syriac

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Biswajit Mandal 𑀯𑀺𑀰𑁆𑀯𑀚𑀻𑀢 𐨬𐨁𐨭𐨿𐨬𐨗𐨁𐨟 @Biswaji13480606

5 years ago

Alphabet chart of Onge language,Andamanese-Ongan group of language from A&N Islands, India. @anshumanpandey_ @Aakrscht @EndangeredAlpha @Omniglossia @bhasa_indo @samopriya @SagirAhmed98 @joshuakucera @aannda @ChetanSanghi @TiroTypeworks

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Puneet Sapaliga പുനീത് സപലിഗ @puneet_sapaliga

3 years ago

@TBAlphabets @EndangeredAlpha @AshwinKannadiga @savetulunaad @unicode @VaishnaviMurthy @virtualvinodh @LPaldane @SKDMTemple @HeggadeD @daijiworldnews @ShobhaBJP @jaitulunadorg @32e20633d820422 @udayavani_web @AIRMangalore @AkashvaniAIR @CHAAVADI_ @rakshit_s_ @YouTubeIndia @mkvipul #TuluScript on the entrance of a Residential building in Mangalore (kuḍla) #ReviveTuluLipi x.com/Mahimulki/stat…

Mahi Mulki @Mahimulki

3 years ago

Tulu Script Usage Apartment name in #Tulu script at Ashokanagar, Kudla. #ReviveTuluLipi #TuluScript

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Incunabula @incunabula

4 years ago

King Ibrahim Njoya was 17th in dynasty of kings that ruled over the Bamum people in Cameroon. A brilliant intellectual and renaissance man, he invented an indigenous African writing system to document the history of his people. Today, @EndangeredAlpha is helping to revive it. 1/

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Tim Brookes @TBAlphabets

3 years ago

This is the poster the world has been waiting for, the result of a decade’s research and an afternoon’s scribbling on the back of an envelope. Order one quickly before the MacArthur Foundation hears of it and the price goes up. endangeredalphabets.com/endangered-alp…

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Tim Brookes @TBAlphabets

3 years ago

Must be spring! Working outside for the first time this year, Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains as a non-CGI backdrop. This carving will be a gift to the Osage Nation. endangeredalphabets.com

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Tim Brookes @TBAlphabets

3 years ago

And while we're at it, does anyone know anything about the fate of the recently-created Rma/Qiang script?

Tim Brookes @TBAlphabets

3 years ago

Hey, #Tibetan Twitter! Does anyone know about Namuyi hieroglyphs? Are these the same as Baima hieroglyphs? I would be *very* grateful for information about either/both! Thanks--and please RT!

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Tim Brookes @TBAlphabets

3 years ago

Someone from the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in China decided to create a script to unify his people and their linguistic and cultural ancestry. What happened next? endangeredalphabets.com/2023/05/18/mis…

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Incunabula @incunabula

4 years ago

Just 20 hours left now, and Tim is still short of his target. Every donation, whether large or small, will help save an endangered script from some of the worlds most marginalised indigenous peoples. Your generosity *will* make a difference - please consider making a donation.

Tim Brookes @TBAlphabets

4 years ago

31 hours left in our campaign to fund the second half of research for the Red List of Endangered and Emerging Alphabets, and a stampede of support is coming in. Check it out at endangeredalphabets.com/2023/02/22/fin…

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Endangered Alphabets Press @EndangeredAlpha

4 years ago

And here is the link to make a donation directly. Please consider supporting Tim - if you care about languages, writing, and the culture of indigenous peoples, this is such a worthy cause: endangeredalphabets.com/how-to-support…

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Endangered Alphabets Press @EndangeredAlpha

4 years ago

Here is the background to this current fundraiser, in aid of the @TBAalphabets "Red List" campaign, which aims to track down every script currently in use in the world and assess just how threatened, each one is.: endangeredalphabets.com/2023/02/22/fin…

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Endangered Alphabets Press @EndangeredAlpha

4 years ago

Tim does simply extraordinary work in supporting the most marginalized & endangered scripts from indigenous communities worldwide. His operation runs on a shoestring, with minimal admin overhead. I just donated to his latest fundraiser - if you can *please* consider donating too.

Tim Brookes @TBAlphabets

4 years ago

Only four days left to raise $8,000 so we can track down the smallest, most marginalized, remotest script communities in the world. Explanation at endangeredalphabets.com/2023/02/22/fin… Please RT; please do whatever you can to support our work. Thanks.

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Incunabula @incunabula

4 years ago

Advertising billboard for a gold merchant in Bantwal, Karnataka, written in Tigalari script. Historically used to write Sanskrit in southwest India, Tigalari is now increasingly used - as here - for the Tulu language, as a visible manifestation of Tulu culture and identity.

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Biswajit Mandal 𑀯𑀺𑀰𑁆𑀯𑀚𑀻𑀢 𐨬𐨁𐨭𐨿𐨬𐨗𐨁𐨟 @Biswaji13480606

5 years ago

Various writing systems of Chotanagpur Plateau, Santhal Paragana, Junglemahal and Southern Odisha region, India.🇮🇳 #Mundari #Bhumij #Ho #Santali #Sora #Kurmali #Kurux @anshumanpandey_ @EndangeredAlpha @WarangChiti123 @NurulAlomAdor @livingtongues @_ELProject @samopriya

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Endangered Alphabets @EAlphabets

4 years ago

I don’t think I ever posted a photo of the work bench I made for myself. It reads “Do good work” in Javanese. Cherry and butternut. Those lovely flowery flourishes at each end are quotation marks. Javanese script really does everything with style.

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Endangered Alphabets @EAlphabets

4 years ago

The Endangered Alphabets Project is looking for volunteers to help us complete our Red List--a catalogue of every script currently in use, with an assessment of its degree of endangerment. Email [email protected] if interested. Please RT!

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Incunabula @incunabula

4 years ago

This is extraordinarily interesting. There's a long Chukchi tradition of carving hunting and fishing scenes on bone, including what may well be pictographic images - very possibly these served as the underlying inspiration for Tenevil's absolutely remarkable self-invented script.

Sunny སནྣཱི 珊妮 ⵙⵓⵏⵏⵢ @Southie_Nomad

4 years ago

Chukchi Script. In 1930, The Soviet ethnographer & linguist Vladimir Bogoraz traveling around Chukotka discovered something incredible in a remote camp near the village of Усть-Белая- an original script invented by a reindeer herder Теневиль(Tenevil) to write the chukchi language

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Óscar Curros @OscarCurros

4 years ago

I've just backed "Writing Beyond Writing," a book by Tim Brookes (@TBAlphabets), the creator of the @EndangeredAlpha Project, on @Kickstarter. It's the last week to support his book. Don't miss it! 👇 kickstarter.com/projects/endan… #l10n #t9n #writing