Lingue

Old Persian Cuneiform Origin Darius I (550-486 BC) claims credit for the invention of Old Persian Cuneiform in an inscription on a cliff at Behistun in south-west Iran. The inscription…

Orgom Silawa   Orgom Silawa is a language and alphabet invented by Neal Wiley for his own amusement and for artistic purposes (as well as an exercise in logic). The…

Oriya alphabet    Origin The Oriya script developed from the Kalinga script, one of the many descendents of the Brahmi script of ancient India. The earliest known inscription in the…

Orkhon / Old Turkic   The earliest known examples of writing in any Turkic language were found in the Orkhon river valley in Mongolia in the 19th century. They date…

Oromo (Afaan Oromo / Oromiffa / ኦሮምኛ) Oromo is a Cushitic language spoken by about 30 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Egypt and is the 3rd largest language…