Chapter grammar — every file follows the same skeleton
- The Loss
- The Trigger
- The Method
- The Community
- The Status
Each file records how the script declined, what sparked the revival, the mechanism (a committee, a school, a font, one person), who carried it, and how alive it is now — recorded honestly, not cheered.
01 ⵣ A Standard for the AmazighTifinagh — an ancient script kept alive by the Tuareg, standardised by Morocco's IRCAM in 2003 and put on road signs. Room → 02 𐒰 Written As ItselfOsage — Herman Mongrain Lookout builds a new alphabet in the 2000s to reclaim a language from ambiguous Latin spelling. Room → 03 𛅰 The Women's ScriptNüshu — a syllabary made and used by women in Hunan, revived from near-extinction after its last natural inheritor died. Room → 04 א Bringing a Language HomeHebrew — a script that never died attached to a spoken language that did, then was deliberately brought back to daily life. Room → 05 Ꮳ Sequoyah's HeirsCherokee — from a 19th-century literacy boom to today's classroom and keyboard revitalisation of an endangered language. Room →
06 B Baybayin ReturnsThe Philippines — a pre-colonial Brahmic script revived by artists, tattooists and legislators as a mark of identity. Forthcoming
07 § What Revival CostsClosing file — when revival is heritage vs. living use, who gets to decide a script is ‘saved’, and the museum's own role. Forthcoming
Toward the book
This series is declared complete at seven files. On completion it moves to Naisu Press as a volume in the institute's imprint — same chapter grammar, same specimens, print-first typesetting via the Paged.js pipeline. Chapters published here remain open access; the book is the collected, revised edition.