Linguistics and Strategic Studies: An Introductory Course
Instructor - Alfia Wallace
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Recognizing Writing Systems

Introduction to Writing Systems - from Omniglot

• Abjads (Consonant Alphabets) - Hebrew, Arabic
• Alphabets: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Korean
• Syllabic Alphabets: Devanagari, Bengali, Burmese, Thai
• Syllaberies: Hiragana, Katakana
• Complex Scripts: Chinese, Japanese

Omniglot has online information about all the writing systems in the world, living and extinct.

• Useful foreign phrases in 108 languages
• The Tower of Babel story in 108 languages.

More on Strategic Studies

Here are some fun, educational websites to explore various geopolitical issues of global strategic significance.

• United Stations CyberSchool Bus - Compare statistics for countries around the world. - for Mac | for PC
• United Nations Quizzes for kids - Includes the popular Flag Tag
• Nobel Prize Games - Peace Prize Games
• Discovery GeoGame - Travel around the world and test your knowledge
• GeoBee Challenge from National Geographic
• Geography Links at Plumsite