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===Other=== Several constructed scripts serve unique purposes not outlined above. [[Ong Kommandam]]'s [[Khom script (Ong Kommadam)|Khom Script]], in addition to serving a religious role, was used to conceal military communications during the [[Holy Man's Rebellion]].<ref>Sidwell, Paul. 2008. The Khom script of the Kommodam Rebellion. ''[[International Journal of the Sociology of Language]]'' 192.</ref> Around the turn of the 18th century, Frenchman [[George Psalmanazar]] invented a purported 'Formosan' alphabet to further his fraudulent claims of being the first Taiwanese visitor to Europe; the [[Coelbren y Beirdd]] alphabet invented by [[Iolo Morganwg]] is another such example of linguistic forgery.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coelbren y Beirdd - The Bardic Alphabet |url=http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/888/ |website=Amgueddfa Cymru β National Museum Wales |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117215438/http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/888/ |archive-date= Nov 17, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Braille]]<ref name= "Olmstrom">{{Cite book |last=Olstrom |first=Clifford E. |title=Undaunted By Blindness |publisher=[[Perkins School for the Blind]] |location=Watertown, MA |isbn=978-0-9822721-9-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k9K77s1IRgoC |access-date=4 December 2011 |date=2012-07-10 }}</ref>{{rp|161β162}} and most other [[tactile alphabet]]s were invented to serve the needs of the visually impaired, or, in the case of [[Lewis Carroll]]'s [[Nyctography]], of sighted people without access to light.<ref name="life">[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11483/11483-h/11483-h.htm βThe Life And Letters Of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)β by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood B.A. Christ Church, Oxford]</ref>
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