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Writing Systems of the World[edit]

A map of the different writing systems of the world colored by orthographic category.

This is a highly informative map of the world beautifully and intuitively displaying the different scripts in use today, their orthographic relationships, and their geographic distribution. It appears in Writing system and List of writing systems. It is free and GNU licensed and many people have colaborated on it. Most recently Nickshanks has improved on work by Denihilonihil and Kwamikagami.


  • Nominate and support. - Chris Quackenbush 22:35, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose looks confusing Reywas92 23:43, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Meets every criteria of WP:WIAFP. It's illuminating on the subject of languages throughout the world, something important for the wikipedia being the multi-lingual site that it is. --Mitaphane talk 04:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Per Mitaphane. Glaurung 05:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose The map shows Hokkaido as using katakana in solid red, Honshu as kanji and kana in yellow with a red outline, and Kyushu and Shikoku in solid red. A person who looks at the map might conclude that (1) Hokkaido uses katakana (written side to side), but neither kana nor kanji; (2) Honshu uses kana and kanji (written vertically), both of which are different from katakana; (3) Kyushu and Shikoku use red (syllabaries) but not yellow (logographies). All three conclusions would be incorrect. Certainly, the map would have to communicate more accurately the writing systems of Japan in order to be featured. Fg2 07:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Needs work - it's pretty messy at the moment, and the different sized fonts are distracting. I also noticed the katakana thing, and found it odd that I had to search everywhere until I hit South America to see what script England and Australia use. The legend at the bottom left is quite oddly arranged, and would be better if it had the examples of the different scripts there. The mass of unlabelled scripts around India is just too much - a better way of presenting that is needed. The overall idea is great, but it needs polishing. Stevage 09:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. I agree with all the objections above. In addition, I don't see why the Chinese characters are unlabeled and why there isn't a example of writing for Yup'ik. A sharper, antialiased version of the world map should also be used. Redquark 14:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Great idea, but still needs work. The map its to busy and i'm having a hard time figuring everything out I would suggest correcting the color so that they look more diferent (and don't put similar colors next to each other) and removing all the examples from being on top of the countries and instead placing them on a more elaborate leyend.Nnfolz 14:18, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose regretfully. This is something that would be wonderful, if the map was large enough to hold all the text, it is too cluttered. Also the reported errors by Stevage concern me, as accuracy is essential in a FP diagram. HighInBC 15:29, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Per Stevage. It's way to cluttered in Asia, and overall it's just too confusing. And SVG, again, would be nice as well. --Tewy 04:02, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. I agree with all of the above. It's an interesting map, but not good enough to be featured. Chacal 04:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Oppose Weak Support Neutral Iranians and Persians writing is far more different than ARABIC. Go learn something The image needs a lot of work as mentioned above. Ok I'll be civil. I still believe that Persian writing has changed a lot during centuries from Arabic. It's my opinion. Even if I'm wrong (which I think I am, lol) this map is very busy and too small for such a great number of writing used in the world. Arad 18:17, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please be civil. From Persian language: The Persian alphabet adds four letters to the Arabic alphabet, due to the fact that four sounds that exist in Persian do not exist in Arabic, as they come from separate language families.. So Persian writing really is not very different from Arabic writing, imho. Could you elaborate? --Bernard 23:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - A very interesting and well-done map. I've never seen the world's different writing systems laid out geographically. You can learn a lot just by looking over this graphic for a minute or two. If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a picture of a thousand writing systems worth? Kaldari 03:15, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Way to busy. Numbered with a legens would be FAR superior. say1988 17:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Nice idea, poor implementation. The information is not presented in a terribly clear and easily-understandable fashion. But, I do like the core concept. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 21:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - a similar FP: Image:Langs N.Amer.png. howcheng {chat} 22:52, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - how about simply colouring the map and using {{legend}} in the caption? That would make the image useful as a thumbnail. Zocky | picture popups 10:11, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 06:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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