Latin Scripts

The past few decades have witnessed an aesthetic trend in the Arabic Writing System and its well-known
calligraphic arts, which have exploited features of other writing systems, including Latin and Chinese scripts.
Although there are great differences between almost every aspect of the Arabic and Latin scripts, this trend has
blended certain characteristics of Arabic script with some features of Latin script.
This study examines this trend and its experiments and transitions, from the moment it first emerged until the
present day. It investigates the motivations underpinning the trend and analyzes its artistic and linguistic
characteristics, in which the researcher visually analyzes all possible details and disassembles both orthographic
items and calligraphic features into their basic essential scripts. The findings reveal an aesthetic and linguistic
trend that is substantial and significant, based on linguistic, cultural, and sociocultural factors, including
increased levels of communication, culturalism, advances in technology, transportation, migration, and
globalization. Script tools and features are used to divide the main trend into three sub-trends: 1) Script
switching, where scripts are interchanged at word-level; 2) Script fusion, where scripts are altered at letter-level;
and 3) Faux fonts, which dissolve certain features of Arabic script to mirror Latin script. All of the techniques
used to make Arabic script match Latin script have been shown to be culturally-induced and linguistically
informative, rather than merely aesthetic. The findings of this study also indicate that this new phenomenon is
likely to be in the early stages, with further developments expected to unfold in future.

Tras la desaparición del Imperio Romano Occidental, la Iglesia latina asumió la tarea de preservar y continuar la cultura clásica, con lo cual le confirió un carácter enteramente nuevo. Por otra parte, la cristianización de nuevas áreas geográficas como las Islas Británicas y la Germania tuvo como resultado la formación de Europa occidental como entidad cultural con la extensión aproximada que tiene en la actualidad. En estas condiciones muchos modelos culturales se vieron  profundamente alterados. Algunos de ellos ya habían cambiado al final del periodo anterior, como el formato del libro o la división del texto  bíblico en cola y commata. Otros aparecieron en estos siglos, como la lectura silenciosa o el espacio entre palabras. Otras cuestiones tratadas en este artículo son los porcentajes de población alfabetizada, los métodos de enseñanza de la lectura y la escritura o las condiciones de  producción y ornamentación del libro.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire the Latin Church assumed the role of preserving and enhancing the remnants of the Classic culture, although in doing this conferred it an entirely new character. Besides, the Christianizing of new territories such as the British Isles and Germania gave Europe more or less its modern extension. Within these conditions the cultural patterns were deeply changed. Some of them had already muted during the last decades of the former period, such as the format of the book or the division of the  biblical text into cola et commata. Others came into existence in these centuries such as silent reading or space between words. Rates of literacy, reading and writing methods and book production and ornamentation are some other questions with which this item is also concerned.

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The Latin script, that is, any writing using Latin characters, which includes the practical totality of the Western European languages, whether Romanic or not, has evolved considerably through time from the 6th century B.C. to the 16th century A.D. My purpose here is to give a general impression of that evolution.
The evolution of writing is the primary objective of Palaeography, and in my regular class on Palaeography we deal with it more in depth during a complete academic year. That means that in the short half hour of this video I cannot even start scratching the surface. I shall limit myself to generalizations that imply if not errors at least inaccuracies.

The past few decades have witnessed an aesthetic trend in the Arabic Writing System and its well-known calligraphic arts, which have exploited features of other writing systems, including Latin and Chinese scripts. Although there are great differences between almost every aspect of the Arabic and Latin scripts, this trend has blended certain characteristics of Arabic script with some features of Latin script. This study examines this trend and its experiments and transitions, from the moment it first emerged until the present day. It investigates the motivations underpinning the trend and analyzes its artistic and linguistic characteristics, in which the researcher visually analyzes all possible details and disassembles both orthographic items and calligraphic features into their basic essential scripts. The findings reveal an aesthetic and linguistic trend that is substantial and significant, based on linguistic, cultural, and sociocultural factors, including increased levels of co...

The following short contribution undertakes to appraise a phenomenon that has
become rare in the study of the history of writing, the biography of a Latin script, as
the founder of modern Latin Palaeography, the Munich professor of Medieval Latin
Ludwig Traube, had in mind over one hundred years ago. The study dealt with here on
the so-called semi-uncial, the oldest book minuscule of late Antiquity and the early
Middle Ages, is considered in the wider context of the research history of the twentieth
century; its main results are presented and questioned as regards the methodology applied. In this context, critical observations are made and some suggestions are offered for an appropriate new approach to the phenomenon of "writing" and its genesis.

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