Beadscript

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Beadscript    Beadscript is an alternative alphabet for Russian invented by Olga Smirnova, a student from Russia. It's called Beadscript because each letter contains a roundlet or "bead". Sample text…

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Batak

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Batak alphabet    Origin The Batak alphabet, or surat batak, is descended ultimately from the from Brahmi script of ancient India by way of the Pallava and Old Kawi scripts.…

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Bassa

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Bassa (Vah) alphabet The origins of the Bassa alphabet are obscure. Its name in Bassa is Vah, which means 'to throw a sign'. The alphabet fell out of use in…

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Basque

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Basque (euskara) Basque is a language with no known linguistic relatives spoken by about 660,000 people mainly in the Basque country (Euskal Herria) in the north of Spain and the…

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Bashkir

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Bashkir (Башҡорт теле) Bashkir is a member of the Kypchak-Bolgar group of the Turkic languages. It is spoken by about 1.5 million people mainly in the Republic of Bashkortostan, in…

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