{"id":10573,"date":"2014-01-14T13:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=10573"},"modified":"2015-03-02T21:31:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T04:31:59","slug":"writing-systems-of-the-world-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/writing-systems-of-the-world-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Systems of the World [map]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More map geekery here, this is a map of the world&#8217;s writing systems:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10574\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/writing-systems-of-the-world-map\/writingsystemsoftheworld\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?fit=2272%2C1402&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2272,1402\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WritingSystemsOfTheWorld\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?fit=500%2C309&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?fit=640%2C395&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?resize=640%2C395&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"WritingSystemsOfTheWorld\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?w=2272&amp;ssl=1 2272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?resize=125%2C77&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?resize=500%2C309&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?resize=1280%2C790&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?resize=1296%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1296w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>By Maximilian D\u00f6rrbecker (Chumwa) (Own work) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html\">GFDL<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC-BY-SA-3.0<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.5\">CC-BY-SA-2.5<\/a>], <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AWritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png\">via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interesting note is Japanese might be the only writing system strictly limited to its respective country&#8217;s borders; Korean is a close second but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/preview#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d7689053!2d125.5413783!3d38.5439756\">not so precise<\/a>; everywhere else language writing systems are very fluid and not bound by borders.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More map geekery here, this is a map of the world&#8217;s writing systems: By Maximilian D\u00f6rrbecker (Chumwa) (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC-BY-SA-2.5], via Wikimedia Commons Interesting note is Japanese might be the only writing system strictly limited to its respective country&#8217;s borders; Korean is a close second but not so precise; everywhere else language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1002],"series":[],"class_list":["post-10573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geekathon","tag-map"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WritingSystemsOfTheWorld.png?fit=2272%2C1402&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-2Kx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10594,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions\/10594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10573"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}