Old Persian CuneiformOld Persian Cuneiform[ font samples | what's new? | test page | related links | home | travel phrases ]
Old Persian was an alphabetic-based, cuneiform writing system dating back to the 500s BCE. It was used in the area that is present day Iran. Just 25 centuries later it was added to Unicode, with version 4.1.0.
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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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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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