I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by "native languages." Could you clarify?

So English speakers all used something else as children?

hhp

EVERYBODY is a native of one or more locales or groups. I'm a native New Yorker. I'm guessing that your intended use of the term fits Quadibloc's interpretation which attempts to disambi guate your erroneous and insensitive use of the term.

Herb (whose grandfather was a native Englishman, and whose children are native Californians - we all use the best latin web fonts for our native language, English)

Sorry, in my original post I was quoting language I had heard elsewhere. To get us back on topic, I'm referring to non-Latin webfonts to support indigenous peoples of the world.

Sorry, in my original post I was quoting language I had heard elsewhere. To get us back on topic, I'm referring to non-Latin webfonts to support indigenous peoples of the world.

Still don't know what you mean. As far as it goes, most of the "indigenous" people of the Americas (North & South) don't have a written form for their languages. When forced to come up with one, they tend to use the Latin alphabet.

I did a tri-lingual, three-voulme series (English, Spanish, and "Indigenous") a few years back.

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/monwo2.html

The problems were not matters of typeface, they were organizational. (As the designer/typesetter, it became apparent that it was too late to work around certain editorial decisions that got in the way of clear presentation.)

But if you really mean only the characters/glyphs, all that's lacking is somebody willing to do the work. And perhaps getting Unicode to recognize the language. Print or pixel, not much difference.

@Jared Benson:
To get started

You're starting off on the wrong foot. Except for Gaelic, these aren't indigenous or minority languages - these are languages of major national communities, and have hundreds of fonts.

Recommending the best web fonts for Japanese or Greek or Hebrew is not particularly simpler than recommending the best web fonts for English!

But the good news, though, is that this makes the question simple enough for you to answer yourself with a bit of Googling. Although, admittedly, a command of the languages in question would make it easier.

And if Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, and Japanese are "native" languages, I shudder to think of how he views Armenian!

Clue: Armenians do, in fact, wear clothes.

I assume he meant "native" as in "a font native to another language", meaning a font designed first and foremost for users of one particular language, whatever other languages it might support. (Given that the vast majority of fonts discussed here are "native" to Latin-1 languages, I suppose that implies his primary interest is in fonts which aren't.)

A font that's "native" to Farsi isn't the same as a font that's "native" to Arabic (the language), even though they're both classifiable as Arabic (the writing system) fonts. Alternatively, a font that's designed by a Russian speaker primarily for use in writing Cyrillic (but happens to contain Latin support as well) may be considered a "native" Russian font, whereas a Latin font designed by an English speaker that happens to contain Cyrillic support may not be.

Um, that make sense?

The BBC Arabic (and BCC Persian) website use Nassim from Rosetta Type Foundry. I find it hard to judge how well executed it is, since I’m not familiar with neither alphabet nor language, but I’m very impressed by Rosetta Type’s catalogue.

Jared: By webfonts, do you mean fonts available for web or fonts that are optimized for web (hinting, outline adjustments, etc.)?

Ernestine by Nina Stössinger is available for web use from FontFont. Its Armenian counterpart Vem is designed by Hrant Papazian (the very hrant, yes). Can you say if the Armenian part is available for web use and/or hinted, Hrant? I know Ernestine is.

Skolar Cyrillic is hand-hinted and available from Fontdeck.