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Posted on 03/10/2008 12:39:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An original new software that enables users to type in Persian cuneiform writing is to be released into Iran's market in the near future.
Cuneiform is a pictographic writing system used by many languages over several empires in ancient Mesopotamia and Persia and inspired the old Persian national alphabet.
With this unique software enthusiasts will be able to write inscriptions in cuneiform and see their phonetic equivalents.
The cuneiform script is the earliest known form of written expression, created by the Sumerians in 3000 BC. Cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs. Over time, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract.
A blunt reed called a stylus was used to write cuneiforms on clay tablets. The symbols drawn with the stylus were wedge or nail shaped, thus giving rise to the name cuneiform meaning 'wedge shaped' or 'Mikhi', as it is called in Iran, meaning nail shaped.
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I am sure that will boost the economy to the fore front of the business world.
aaaahhh Iran... finally dragging your mouldering carcass into the 1500s...
NEAT! I need some clay tablets and reeds!
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I don’t think either of us has the font handy, but oddly enough, when spelled out in cuneiform, then read boustrophodon, it looks like “vote for Obama”.
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Hey, that works, thanks!
Hot diggidy!
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