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Dec 2024: On December 5th 2024 we changed the ScriptSource contribution process and removed the login facility. This blog post explains why we have made the changes and how the new process works.
May 2023: A recent blog post explains how and why different language codes are used on ScriptSource.
Dec 2020: Writing System pages now include additional information for each language tag associated with the writing system. This is presented under the heading: Subtags for this writing system. More details are to be found in this blog post.
May 2020: Keyman keyboards now support more than 1800 languages. We have generated Keyboard Entries on all those language pages with links to the relevant Keyman keyboards for each language.
April 2020: We have updated our Language and Writing System pages using data from the latest release of Ethnologue, the 23rd edition.
March 2020: The character data on ScriptSource has recently been updated from the latest release of Unicode data, Unicode 13.0.
April 2019: We have changed the source for our information on writing systems, showing which languages use which scripts. This information is now derived from SIL's database of language tags on GitHub.
February 2019: We have updated our locale data, such as character lists, and the names of the months of the year, and the days of the week. Our data sources for this are the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Release 34, and SIL's own Locale Data Repository (SLDR).
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ScriptSource contains over 194000 pages, covering
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Devanagari script - used for writing the Hindi language, as well as 150 other languages spoken on the Indian subcontinent
HANGUL LETTER CIEUC - used in the Korean (Hangul) script to write the sound /dʑ/, transcribed
j. The shape represents the tongue against the roof of the mouth,
reflecting the way the sound is produced.
Large Flowery Miao - spoken in China and written in the Miao, Pahawh Hmong and Latin scripts
Font Design & Development - WSTech Blog - news and articles about font design and development
Contribute
Recent Contributions & Discussions
Here are some of the most recent contributions to ScriptSource:
| Title | Type |
| How to contribute information to ScriptSource | text entry |
| Phonetic Symbol Guide | text entry |
| Mkhedruli Romanization Table | text entry |
| Introduction to Text Conversion and Transliteration | text entry |
| Keyboard Systems Overview | text entry |
| Introducing the Khema Script for writing Gurung | academic paper |
| ‘Long lost’ Iban alphabet script ‘found’ | web page |
| WritingMiao | web page |
| Preliminary Proposal to encode Dhives Akuru in ISO/IEC 10646 | academic paper |
| A Dictionary of the Izere language of Fobur | academic paper |
Current Software Needs
Can you help meet a need? Offer to help. Here are several sample needs:
| Title | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Addition of Bold and Italic face to Abyssinica | Font | Unmet |
| Modifiable Lao fonts in multiple styles | Font | In progress |
| Integrate Graphite into Harfbuzz | Software | In progress |
| Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software for Miao script | Software | Unmet |
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Copyright © 2026 SIL Global and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC-BY-SA) unless noted otherwise. Language data includes information from the Ethnologue. Script information partially from the ISO 15924 Registration Authority. Some character data from The Unicode Standard Character Database and locale data from the Common Locale Data Repository. Used by permission.
