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Phonetic Writing Systems

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Phonetic Writing Systems

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  1. Alphabets, syllabaries and other systems for representing languagesWriting Systems

  2. Scientific systems for representing speech sounds, such as the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)Phonetic Writing Systems

  3. Graphemes used by writing systems and the phonemes they representGraphemes and Phonemes

  4. Methods and guidelines for developing writing system softwareDeveloping WSI Software

  5. Resources for developing localized software, including the CLDRLocalization

  6. How phonemes are represented or encodedText Encoding

  7. The international character-encoding standardUnicode

  8. Converting between text encodings, and particularly into UnicodeEncoding Conversion

  9. Sorting, collation, segmentation, transcription, transliterationText Analysis

  10. Converting text between scriptsTransliteration

  11. Systems and resources for entering text on digital devices Keyboards and Data Entry

  12. Font design, development, installation and useFonts and Typefaces

  13. Tools and techniques of font-makingFont Development Tools

  14. Adapting fonts for web sites and applicationsWeb Fonts

  15. Adapting fonts for use on mobile devicesFonts for Mobile Devices

  16. Systems for transforming encoded text into rendered glyphsShaping and Rendering

  17. SIL's open-source rendering engineGraphite

  18. Smart-font technology developed by Adobe and MicrosoftOpenType

  19. Tools and ideas for publishing texts involving complex writing systemsPublishing and Typography

  20. Writing system software licensing models, including the OFLSoftware Licensing

  21. Blogs

  22. News and articles about ScriptSourceScriptSource Blog

  23. News and articles about computing for writing system implementationWriting Systems Blog

  24. News and articles about font design and developmentFont Development Blog

  25. General information about this siteScriptSource Help

Description

This subtopic covers the category of scientific writing systems which consist of symbols representing several categories of human speech sounds.

Another rich source of information on this topic is the Image Computers & Writing Systems site.

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Character Requirements for Phonetics and Transliteration (Latin)
Free Phonetic IME for Indian languages
IPA (SIL) Keyman keyboard
IPA Help: A Phonetics Learning Tool
IPA Symbol Equivalents
IPA transcription with SIL fonts
IPA93 and IPA 1990 to Unicode IPA
Marking Tone
Phonetic Symbol Guide
The International Phonetic Alphabet and the Latin script

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An introduction to the IPA and how to type it

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Reference

Copyright © 2026 SIL Global and released under the Image Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC-BY-SA) unless noted otherwise. Language data includes information from the Image Ethnologue. Script information partially from the Image ISO 15924 Registration Authority. Some character data from Image The Unicode Standard Character Database and locale data from the Image Common Locale Data Repository. Used by permission.