As you may recall, I am participating in the GlyphStudy study group learning Middle Egyptian. I use a program called JSesh to type Egyptian hieroglyphs. Some of my fellow students are in the process of forming another study group to learn the oldest attested Indo-European language, Hittite. Hittite was written using the cuneiform “wedge-writing” that was also used by Sumerian and Akkadian (although, otherwise unrelated to those non-Indo-European languages. So, I was curious, is there a similar means to “type” in cuneiform. The answer is, sort of! Cuneiform is actually a bit more standard in that there are a number of unicode fonts, and I was even able to locate a free keymap file for Macs at the Unicode Cuneiform Fonts site. The provided instructions did not quite work to install the fonts on OSX 14.4, but I was able to open the keyboard layout file in Ukelele and then install from there.
Of course, I do not actually know any Hittite, but I was able to get some output!
I have no idea what this means!
