Does anyone know anyone who is well-versed in the Tangut and Khitan scripts?

Calling everyone in the Cambridge (UK) area! Our visit from Muhammad Noor, language and script advocate for the Rohingya people, will be at 7pm on Monday 11th May in seminar room 3 in Cripps Court, Magdalene, address 1-3 Chesterton Rd, Cambridge CB4 3AD. Do join us!

Hey, everyone: I have a highly accomplished and professional friend who is available for proofreading for non-native English students/academics/writers. If you know someone who might be interested, please pass this message along to them. If you might be interested, please contact me directly.

LAST CHANCE to late-pledge for some of the extraordinary rewards of my Kickstarter campaign, such as this carving of Tibetan calligraphy by Golok Akyung that reads "Spontaneous Perfection." Late Pledge period ends tonight. Check it out at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

Stretch goal! To my delight, people are still making late pledges to my Kickstarter campaign. Basically, the more money pledged, the more carvings I can do and send out. If we hit $20,000 I will aim for 12 carvings, instead of 10. Pledge at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... ! PLEASE SHARE!

To my delight, people are still making late pledges to my Kickstarter campaign. Basically, the more money pledged, the more carvings I can do and send out. If we hit $20,000 I will aim for 12 carvings, instead of 10. A stretch goal! Pledge at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... !

You can still late-pledge for rewards at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... !

Great news: my Kickstarter reached its funding goal at the last minute, to my great relief. I would like to thank everyone who shared and reposted it over the last month. If you let me know your name, I will include it in the acknowledgements of gratitude for the project. Thanks again!

My latest Kickstarter bulletin is that, alas, we are falling behind. We've taken in $12,473 in pledges, but we still have over $5000 before reaching the goal, with 17 hours to go. If you can help, please do so at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... Please phone a friend! Call for backup!

Kickstarter final day report. First 2 hours of the final 24: $281 pledged, an encouraging start given that 85% of my backers are in the US, and thus still asleep. A total of $12,363 pledged so far, less than $6000 to go. The race is on. Join in by pledging at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

Over the next 24 hours we're going to make Endangered Alphabets fundraising history. Watch this space for updates every three hours, and pledge if you can at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... . Current status: $12,132 pledged, $6000 and change to go. Hold on tight.

Over the next 30 hours we're going to make Endangered Alphabets fundraising history. Watch this space for updates, and pledge if you can at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end.... Current status: $12,022 pledged of $18,350. Hold on tight.

Watch what is happening at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... over the next 34 hours. We are making Endangered Alphabets fundraising history.

Thanks for recognising the value that a language or a script has for its culture. And thanks, too, for your support, @becauselanguage.com

My Kickstarter campaign, ending on Sunday night, has suddenly picked up speed and is galloping toward its goal. Hop on and help it burst through the finishing tape! www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

The Kickstarter Diaries Part 16: Night and Day. The latest episode in the increasingly unhinged behind-the-scenes account of a crowdfunding campaign reaches a possibly psychotic conclusion: I control people's minds. Now read on at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/03/04/t...

This Kickstarter campaign is going to be very close. I would be super grateful if you could share the link with anyone who might be interested. We have a week left and $10,000 to go. It's certainly doable, but it's going to be tight. The home page is at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

What happens when your Kickstarter goes viral and an avalanche of pledges comes in? It has happened to me only once, and it wasn’t the experience you might expect. Read the latest episode of my Kickstarter Diaries at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/26/t...

Our Script Keepers Network connects people trying to revive their writing systems with people who want to help. If you might be interested in either category, our next meeting is this Sunday. Join us! Information and registration link at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/02/26/l...

Er is (nog even) 'n fantastische expo in 't schitterende Alphabetum in @westdenhaag.bsky.social over obscure alfabetten: 'Writing systems of the other world'. Heel interessant, en een esthetisch stortbad. Lees de fraaie bijbehorende publicatie van @timbrookes.bsky.social: 'Alphabets born of dreams'.

The Kickstarter Diaries 14: Why Not Use AI? As the AI debate rages, I started wondering about the Endangered Alphabets initiative that I’ll undertake if my current Kickstarter campaign is successful, and how it would be different with AI. Read more at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/23/k...

Haven't I been saying this for a year? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Check out my book By Hand at www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

Lying awake at night worrying about my Kickstarter campaign is not all bad. Look what arrived in my inbox at 5 a.m.--an astounding piece of inscription that I'm going to carve. You can read the story in the latest edition of my Kickstarter Diaries at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/21/t...

The latest entry in The Kickstarter Diaries, the tragicomic account of life during a crowdfunding campaign, is the strangest and yet the most potentially inspiring. Because I wrote it by hand. Check it out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/20/t...

Hey, my friends! My annual Kickstarter campaign, the single biggest source of funding for the Endangered Alphabets Project, seems to have run aground. Can you make even a small pledge to help refloat it? www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

Mark Oremland, who runs the Mundolingua language museum in Paris, is assembling a collection of typewriters in non-Latin fonts. I’ve seen photos of Cherokee typewriters, and if anyone has one they would like to donate, I’m sure he would be very happy to hear from you through me.

Episode 11 of the Kickstarter Diaries, the tragicomic account of my increasingly unhealthy activities during a crowdfunding campaign, is now available at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/19/t.... As they say in The House of the Rising Sun, "Mothers, tell your children/Not to do what I have done."

The Kickstarter Diaries 10: Asking for Help, the latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scene account of running a crowdfunding campaign, is now up at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/18/t... . At the risk of sounding presumptuous, I think this one is really worth reading.

My Kickstarter campaign has been stuck at this incredibly annoying number for 24 hours. Will someone please make even a tiny donation at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... so I don't have to keep staring at it any longer?

Episode 8 of The Kickstarter Diaries, my daily tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life at the helm of a crowdfunding capaign, is now up. Find it at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/16/t...

The Kickstarter Diaries Part 7: New Reward, New Chance of Catastrophic Miscalculation. The latest episode of my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of a crowdfunding campaign is now up at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/15/t...

The Kickstarter Diaries 6: Bobsled Wow The sixth episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life during a crowdfunding campaign is now live at: www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/14/t...

You can read the fifth episode of my behind-the-scenes Kickstarter diary at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/13/t...

The third episode of my behind-the-scenes Kickstarter diary is now up at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/11/t...

Hey! I'm writing a daily diary, whose tone I would describe as grimly hilarious, about the behind-the-scenes of a Kickstarter campaign. You can find the first two entries at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/10/t... and www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/10/t...

Hey, everyone--I'd be very grateful if you could circulate the news about my new Kickstarter campaign. If it succeeds, I'm going to be able to do a lot of good, but I'm going to need a lot of help first! www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

The first day of my Kickstarter campaign has been plagued with bots making fake pledges, apparently the latest form of phishing for personal data. Please check the campaign out at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... and, if you are in a position to do so, make a genuine pledge!

We're off! It's my new Kickstarter campaign to make ten Endangered Alphabets carvings and send them out to their communities of origin, where they will do the most good. Please back the campaign if you can at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... --and please tell your friends and colleagues!

LAUNCHING ON SUNDAY: my Bringing It All Back Home Kickstarter, about getting my carvings of endangered alphabets out to their user communities where they can be a source of pride, a sign that the world has not forgotten them. Check out the pre-launch page at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

My friends: having heard how much Bezos has donated to Trump, I've decided MY BOOKS WILL NO LONGER BE SOLD THROUGH AMAZON. You can find them at endangeredalphabets.com by clicking on the Shop tab. It may lose me sales, but I refuse to fund the destruction of the US.

It's really interesting 🤓

Price reduced! Anyone who joins my wonderful By Hand Book Club for the last three sessions (starting this Sunday) can do so at the cut price of $20--including a free digital copy of the book! Details at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/12/11/t...

Price reduced! Anyone who joins my wonderful By Hand Book Club for the last three sessions (starting this Sunday) can do so at the cut price of $20--including a free digital copy of the book! Deets at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/12/11/t...

Many thanks to Ron Charles of the Washington Post for his great review of my new book, By Hand: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

What do we stand to gain if we write by hand? What do we stand to lose if we don't? www.linkedin.com/pulse/advent...

How do you write a sneeze? A raspberry? World Endangered Writing Day (endangeredwriting.com) this coming Friday, would not be the same without a contest, with actual prizes, and this year's is a doozy. Check it out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/01/19/t... Tell your friends!

A belated bday present came today: @timbrookes.bsky.social’s wonderful book celebrating human ingenuity and diversity. It’s well designed and well produced, too. A thing to admire. And provocative to boot!

Starting Sunday: the most interesting discussion group you'll ever join. We're going to explore the importance of the handwritten word in an age of AI and digital tools. Urgent. Complex. Passionate. For more details and to register, head over to www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/12/11/t...

Agreed! Thanks, my friend!

Starting Sunday: the most interesting discussion group you'll ever join. We're going to explore the importance of the handwritten word in an age of AI and digital tools. Urgent. Complex. Passionate. For more details and to register, head over to www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/12/11/t...