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The Lepcha script is used by the Lepcha language of South Asia. Lepcha has been in Unicode since Unicode 5.1.
Mondulkiri is a Unicode-compliant font family for the Khmer script.
The Limbu, or Kirat Sirijonga, script is used by around 400,000 people in Nepal and India. This Unicode-encoded font has been designed to support literacy and materials development in the Limbu language.
The Nuosu SIL Font is a Unicode font for the standardized Yi script used by a large ethnic group in southwestern China. The font was formerly named SIL Yi.
Padauk is a fully capable Unicode 6 font supporting all the Myanmar characters in the standard. Thus it provides support for minority languages as well, in both local and Burmese rendering style.
Paratext allows you to input, edit, check, and publish a translation of the Scriptures, based on the original texts (Greek, Hebrew), and modeled on versions in major languages.
Pathway processes language data from FieldWorks and Paratext into attractive and suitable formats for draft printing or publishing.
Scheherazade, named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights tale, was designed by SIL International for modern Unicode-based systems using OpenType for complex-script rendering.
ScriptSource is a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world, with detailed information on scripts, characters, languages - and the remaining needs for supporting them in the computing realm.
Sophia Nubian is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font. Its primary purpose is to provide adequate representation for Nubian languages which use the Coptic Unicode character set. Since Nubian languages do not use casing, uppercase characters are not included in this font.
The Tai Heritage Pro font is a Unicode-encoded font designed to reflect the traditional hand-written style of the Tai Viet script, which is used by the Tai Dam, Tai Daeng and Tai Don people who live in northwestern Vietnam and surrounding areas.
Intended for debugging, this font contains a glyph for every character in the Basic Multilingual plane (including Private Use Area) of Unicode 6.1, each glyph consisting of a box enclosing the four hex digits identifying the Unicode scalar value.
WeSay helps non-linguists build a dictionary in their own language. It has various ways to help native speakers to think of words in their language and enter some basic data about them (no backslash codes, just forms to fill in).
XLingPaper helps authors overcome typical obstacles faced when authoring linguistic papers or books by providing:
