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The Old Italic Unicode block unifies several related alphabets that were used historically (700-1 BCE) on the Italian peninsula. The alphabets include archaic Etruscan (7th-5th centuries BCE), neo- and late-Etruscan (4th-1st centuries BCE), Faliscan, Messapic, Middle Adriatic, Oscan, North Picene, South Picene, and Umbrian. Language-specific fonts must be used in order to get the right alphabet. Also, writing direction (right-to-left, left-to-right, or boustrophedon) varies based on the language and even the time period. For simplicity most scholars use left-to-right and this is the Unicode default direction for the Old Italic block.
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Aegean
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(Aegean.otf) Source: Free download from George Douros's 'Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts' page. Stats: Version 1.01 has 3,578 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cypriot Syllabary, Greek, Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Lycian, Carian, Linear A, Lydian, Anatolian/Luvian Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Cretan Hieroglyphs, others) OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Latin |
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ALPHABETUM Unicode
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(ALPHABETUM v.9.00.ttf) Note: Excellent font for linguistics and ancient languages. PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Shareware ($15) from Juan José Marcos. Stats: Version 9.0 Feb 2007 has 5,515 glyphs and 220 kerning pairs Support: Coptic, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Gothic, Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Glagolitic, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Ogham, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Runic, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Iberic & Celtiberic, additional Old Italic glyphs, Old & Medieval Latin) |
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Cardo
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(Cardo98s.ttf from cardo98.zip) Note: Cardo is "designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists". PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from the Fonts for Scholars site. Stats: Version .98 has 2,882 glyphs and 216 kerning pairs Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters plus ancient Greek numbers and musical notation), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Old Italic, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Hebrew, Latin |
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Code2001
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(code2001.ttf) Source: Free download from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 0.917 has 2,944 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cirth, Cypriot Syllabary, Deseret, Gothic, Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Shavian, Tengwar, Ugaritic OpenType Layout Tables: Latin |
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MPH 2B Damase
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(damase_v.2.ttf from damase_v.2.zip) Source: Free download locally. Stats: Version 001.000 / 002.000 has 2,896 glyphs and 192 kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese |
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