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| ==Writing Sytems==
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| A writing system, or script is not a language; it is a means of conveying information through written language.They can be classified as follows.
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| ===Script Type===
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| '''Alphabetic''':
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| Individual units for writing are composed of consonants, and in some cases vowels. When combined they spell out words phonetically. Eg: Indic, Arabic, Latic, Greek etc.
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| '''Syllabic''':
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| The individual units for writing are composed of syllables. Eg: Japanese kana and Korean Hangul
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| '''Ideographic''':
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| A writing system which uses pictures or symbols to represent words. Eg: Chinese
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| ===Context dependent Glyph Shaping===
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| '''Positional''':
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| The shape of the character changes depending on the position in the word. Eg: Arabic greek.
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| '''Ligatures''':
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| Characters combine to form a different shape when they appear next to one another. In Indic scripts ligatures are mandatory.
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| '''Cursive''':
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| The letters are joined while writing.
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| Arabic is an example.But English is not of this kind.
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| ===Text Direction===
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| '''Left to right''':
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| Text is written left to right horizontally. Eg: Indic, English
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| '''Bidirectional''':
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| Examples are Arabic and Hebrew.Text is written right to left while numbers and latin words are written left to right.
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| '''Vertical''':
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| In Chinese and Japanese text is written vertically
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| ===Other Characteristics===
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| '''Diacritics''':
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| Special marks used for accents, tones, and vowels, or to uniquely identify a character. In some writing systems such as Indic and Thai, diacritics can span multiple characters.
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| '''Word seperator''':
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| Most of the languages use space as word separator. Exceptions are Chinese, Thai , and Japanese
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| '''Punctuation''':
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| Marks are inconsistent across writing systems
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| '''A detailed description of above writing systems can be found at [[wikipedia:writing system|Wikipedia page on Writing Systems]]'''
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