Typographical of Latin and Non Latin Alphabet analysis

Since the first ages, language and writing are among the factors which enabled the founding of civilizations, reforms and the founding of knowledge and culture society. Language is an important element of communication and it finds meaning through writing, it is shared with writing and it is kept with writing. Because of this, it is important to examine the progress of writing in civilization starting with the Sumerians. This progress continued with the old Egypt and Chinese civilizations parallel to Sumerians. Writing spread to the Mesopotamia through Sumerians. Abjad, Abugida, Alphabet, Logographic writing, Syllabarry comes to mind when we try to classify the writing systems used both in the past and today. Alphabets from the writing system are used by most of the World societies. Especially the Latin alphabet, found by the Phoenicians and took its final shape with the Greeks and Romans, is used by many societies in the World. In the 15th century, with the effect of one of the renaissance inventions, the printing press, letter designs started in Europe and the foundation of typography was set. The art of typography studies the form of writing, it enables the flow of knowledge through writing, and makes the writing more readable by adding graphical elements to it. Because the birth and progress of typography is based on Europe, typography has become identified with Latin alphabet. But there are many writing systems other than Latin alphabet, and they are called Non-Latin. Globalized World has carried reading and writing beyond the books to the screen based media and internet. The use of Non-Latin alphabets and the writing systems in different countries has brought forth typographical difficulties for Non-Latin alphabets. At this point a connection has to be made between Non-Latin typographical systems and the Latin typography. The accordance of the Latin typography with the Non-Latin typography has to be examined by studying the Non-Latin typographical systems. The typographic of the most used writing systems in the World, Chinese writing system, Indian writing system (Devanagari), Arab alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Greek alphabet, Cyril alphabet, are examined in this study. Key Words: Hanzi, Kanji, Hiragana, Katagana, Hebrew, Devanagari, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Non Latin Typography, Multi Script Typeface