Happy Saints Cyril and Methodius' Day

[ewx]

Since it’s the feast of day Saints Cyril and Methodius, it occurred to me to wonder who else has a script named after them. pseudomonas chipped in and we came up with the following:

• Tironian notes, a shorthand system attributed to a Roman scribe called Marcus Tullius Tiro from the 1st century BCE. This seems to be an alphabetic system with an aggressively

Comments

[rochvelleth]

Great post :)

I'll just add the little-known Claudian alphabet (it really didn't catch on).

And that Wikipedia entry reminded me of the Zetian characters too.

[pseudomonas]

Gosh, that Zetian one reads like serious hubris. (also the circle one looks ugly in the context of the writing style, but that's just to my eyes ;) )

[pseudomonas]

My notes were mainly instances of C19 missionaries developing scripts (for hitherto unwritten or unprinted languages) which then bore their names. e.g. Fraser, Pollard.

Shavian, which never took off but is quite cute. Blissymbolics, even cuter and even less practical.

Mwangwego.

Moon is probably in the same box as Braille; there was some argument as to where a script stops and a hand/typeface begins - Rashi script and Carolingian minuscule fell probably on the wrong side of that; but I think it's a bit like the language/dialect argument.

[pseudomonas]

Is Morse Code even a script at all?

[ewx]

I think morse goes in the same bucket as ASCII or Unicode (or perhaps representations of Unicode).

[gerald_duck]

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[scat0324]

Pedantically, it wasn't SS Cyril and Meth, due to it being a Sunday in Lent.

[ewx]

I didn't know that rule, thankyou.
(I see that Orthodox Lent is later, but I didn't know that when making the posting either.)