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Syllabic writing systems
Learn the alphabets of many syllabic languages, including:
Balinese, Batak, Bengali, Buhid, Burmese, Cham, Dehong (Tai Nua), Devanagari Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hanunoo, Hmong, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Oriya, Ranjana, Redjang (Kaganga), Sinhala, Sorang, Sompeng, Soyombo, Sylhettan, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Dam, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tocharian, Varang Kshiti.
Learn the alphabets of langauges with Syllabaries:
Ethiopic script (Amharic), Hiragana (Japanese), Katakana (Japanese), Yi (Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, China).

Arabic
Link from About.com
Learn the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, and how to write them. Chinese
Learning Chinese Online
SUPER SITE! Includes links to many great sites, which help with: Introduction to the Chinese Language, Pronunciation, Conversations, Characters, Grammar, Reading Materials, Radio and Watching TV, On-line Dictionaries, Chinese Translation Online, Testing Your Chinese, Recommended Links, Universities and Schools Offering Chinese, Chinese Language Associations, Textbooks & Learning Materials Database, CD Titles and other multimedia programs for Learning Chinese.

On-line Chinese Tools
These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language. Includes:
1) Learn Chinese (Flashcards, Add Pinyin to File, Pinyin Converter)
2) Use Chinese (C/E Dictionary, Char. Dictionary, Chinese GIFs etc.)
3) Chinese Culture (Calendar Converter, Chinese Family Titles, Chinese Numbers, Currency Converter etc.)
4) Chinese Software (DimSum Chinese Tools, Word97 Chinese Input, Java Code Converter, Chinese Counter etc.)

Ocrat.com Animated Chinese Characters
A GREAT site- Chinese-related web pages with a focus on Chinese language learning for English speakers. Includes Chinese Character Pronunciations and Learning how to write Chinese by watching animations that draw Chinese characters stroke by stroke (in simplified form as used in mainland China). Shows how to write Chinese characters for cities, provinces, countries, compass directions, numbers, politics, pronouns, common Chinese names and more!

Ocrat.com Animated Chinese Characters
Zhongwen.com contains Online readings, Vocabulary, and the complete text of Amazon's bestselling Chinese-English dictionary "Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary"

Japanese
Polykarbon.com Japan - Language Lessons
This great site gives lessons on:
Hirigana basics, Katakana basics, asking ?'s in Japanese, Breaking down english words into Japanese syllables, Kanji (Numbers, Months and days of the week), Colors

The Kanji Site
This site shows some basics of using Hirigana, Katakana and Kanji - the 3 writing systems of Japanese.

Korean
Introduction to Korean- langintro.com Web-based Language Tutorials
An excellent site which includes tutorials on:
The Korean Alphabet, Basic Conversational Phrases & Asking for Directions, Parts of the Body, Members of the Family, Vocabulary, Numbers, Grammar

Hangeul Chart- from Koreatips.com
This is a one page website that shows a simple chart of the main hangeul characters and their English letter equivalents. Not very detailed, but the simplicity is nice!

Korean Alphabet, Han Gul
A site which explains the history of the Korean alphabet and how different letters are combined to form syllables. Short but good, I think.

Kurdish (Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria and Armenia)
Omniglot- a guide to writing systems Shows how to write Kurdish alphabet (Arabic script)

Pashto (Afghanistan)
Omniglot- a guide to writing systems Shows how to write Pashto alphabet (Arabic script)

Persian (Farsi, Dari etc.)
Omniglot- a guide to writing systems Shows how to write Persian alphabet

Turkish
Omniglot- a guide to writing systems Shows how to write Turkish alphabet (Arabic script and Latin alphabet)

Urdu
Omniglot- a guide to writing systems Shows how to write Urdu alphabet (Arabic script)

Uyghur (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China)
Omniglot- a guide to writing systems Shows how to write Uyghur alphabet (Arabic script)

Last Updated: November 21, 2002