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'''Khitan scripts''' may refer to one of two mutually exclusive [[Writing system|scripts]] used by the [[Khitan people]] during the 10th–12th centuri *[[Khitan small script]], invented in about 924 or 925 CE by a scholar named Diela ...

{{Short description|Alphabets in use in Iron Age Anatolia}} [[File:Carian kulaldis.png|thumb|Inscription in [[Carian language|Carian]] of the name 𐊨𐊣𐊠𐊦𐊹𐊸, ''qlaλiś''<ref name="palaeol ...

...Americas|reason=It does not seem appropriate to characterize it as a full writing system, when the decipherment and interpretation is disputed|date=February {{Infobox writing system ...

{{short description|Wooden tablet bearing inscribed markings, discovered in Dispilio, Greece}} ...92), p. 43.</ref> near the modern village of Dispilio on [[Lake Kastoria]] in [[Kastoria (regional unit)|Kastoria]], [[Western Macedonia]], [[Greece]]. ...

|discovered = 1902 in the west foothills of the [[Sierra de los Tuxtlas|Tuxtlas Mountains]], [[Ve ...script]], one of the few extant examples of this very early [[Mesoamerican writing system]]. ...

| discovered = 1986 in the [[Acula River]] near [[La Mojarra]], [[Veracruz]], [[Mexico]] ...the Long-Count date carved on it</ref> (2nd century CE). It was discovered in 1986, pulled from the Acula River near [[La Mojarra]], [[Veracruz]], [[Mexi ...

{{For|the concept in cryptography|Decryption}} ...exist were once pronounced, or how living languages used to be pronounced in prior eras. ...

{{Short description|Writing systems}} [[Image:Mapa escriptures paleohispàniques-ang.jpg|250px|thumb|Iberian scripts in the context of Paleohispanic scripts]] ...

{{short description|Form of writing, left-to-right and right-to-left in alternate lines}} ...right=1.3|An example, in English, of boustrophedon as used in inscriptions in ancient Greece (Lines 2 and 4 read right-to-left.)]] ...

...l |last=Gross |first=Michael |date=4 December 2012 |title=The evolution of writing |journal=Current Biology |volume=22 |issue=23 |pages=R981–R984 |doi=10.1016 ...theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/05/amateur-archaeologist-uncovers-ice-age-writing-system |work=The Guardian |location=France |access-date=March 14, 2023}}</r ...

...ed, partly in indigenous scripts and partly in postconquest transcriptions in the [[Latin script]]. ...aya civilization#Politics|government]]. Languages recorded in Mesoamerican writing include [[Classic Maya language|Classical Maya]], [[Classical Nahuatl]], [[ ...

{{Short description|Undeciphered late Bronze Age syllabary}} {{Infobox Writing system ...

{{Short description|Undecyphered bronze-age Cretan writing system}} {{Infobox writing system ...

{{Short description|Early Bronze Age writing system in present-day Iran}} {{Infobox Writing system ...

{{about|the pseudo-hieroglyphic script|the Phoenician inscriptions from Byblos|Old Byblian}} {{Infobox Writing system ...

...a vessel.png|thumb|upright=1.2|A modern drawing of a clay vessel unearthed in [[Vinča]], found at a depth of {{cvt|8.5|m}}]] ...500&nbsp;BC.{{sfnp|Lazarovici|Merlini|2016}} Many scholars agree that the "writing" itself is not based on any language whatsoever and it is mostly symbolic.{ ...

...teenth century. In the corpus presented by Grayson, only three chronicles (in most of their copies) are provenanced, but these texts are atypical and the ...t of [[ancient]] [[historiography]]. The Babylonian Chronicles are written in Babylonian [[cuneiform]] and date from the reign of [[Nabonassar]] until th ...

{{Short description|Writing system from Elam}} {{Infobox writing system ...

{{Infobox writing system ...ed form of [[written Chinese]], dating to the late 2nd millennium&nbsp;BC. Inscriptions were made by carving [[Chinese characters|characters]] into [[oracle bone] ...

{{Short description|Hypothesized writing system}} ...early Slavic forms of writing or [[proto-writing]] may have been mentioned in several [[early medieval]] sources. ...