
## Zoto Sans Historic

Zoto Sans Historic is a design for the Egyptian hieroglyphs script and for Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform.

It contains 3638 glyphs and 11 OpenType features, and supports 3238 characters from the Unicode blocks: Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, Linear B Ideograms, Latin-1 Supplement, Linear B Syllabary, Basic Latin, Old Turkic, Samaritan, Avestan, Phags-pa, Carian, Old Persian, Ugaritic, Osmanya, Old South Arabian, Mandaic, Lycian, Lydian, Imperial Aramaic, Phoenician, Inscriptional Parthian, CJK Symbols and Punctuation, Inscriptional Pahlavi, General Punctuation, Aegean Numbers, Latin Extended-A, Spacing Modifier Letters, Mongolian, Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation.


### Supported writing systems


#### Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs is a historical African logo-syllabary, written left-to-right. Were used about 3000 BCE–400 CE for writing the ancient Egyptian language. Combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. Read more on [ScriptSource](https://scriptsource.org/scr/Egyp), [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924:Egyp), [Unicode](https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch11.pdf#G26607), [Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Egyptian_hieroglyphic_script).


#### Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform

Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform is a historical Middle Eastern logo-syllabary, written left-to-right. Was used at least since 3200 BCE in today’s Iraq for the now-exinct Sumerian language. Was later used in today’s Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, for languages like Akkadian, Elamite, Hittite, Luwian and Urartian. Widely believed to be the first writing system in the world. Combined logographic, consonantal alphabetic and syllabic signs. Since c. 900 BCE gradually replaced by the Aramaic script. Read more on [ScriptSource](https://scriptsource.org/scr/Xsux), [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924:Xsux), [Unicode](https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch11.pdf#G26852), [Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Cuneiform_script).


### License

Based on [Noto](https://github.com/notofonts) by Google. Copyright 2011-2015 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the [Apache License v2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt).

### Using this font

You may create your own fonts based on this font, and you may incorporate portions of this font into your own font. You may publish your own font under any license, including a commercial license, but you must:

- in _Font Info › Legal › Copyright_, include `Portions Copyright 2011-2015 Google Inc.`
- in _Font Info › Legal › License_, include `Portions licensed under the Apache License v2.0.`
