Cypriot syllabary The Cypriot syllabary was used in Cyprus from about 1500 and 300 BC and is thought to have developed from the Linear A. The earliest known inscriptions from between 1500 and 1200 BC are in an unknown language called ‘Eteo-Cypriot’, or ‘True Cypriot’, and the script in which they are written is called…
Cwirhald Cwirhald is yet another alphabet created by the people in Dardaniell, the fictional world invented by Pieter Rottiers. Cwirhald is a Dardain word meaning Hand of the king, since it is the writing system introduced by King Dhincarian himself, though it is believed the actual inventor of the script was his royal advisor,…
Cwaethra Cwaethra is a simple alternative script for English invented by Heather Bryan and based on a random doodle. It’s written in horizontal lines from left to right, and top to bottom, and the letters all connect with a central line. Punctuation is optional, and can be placed almost anywhere in the script Cwaethra…
Curvetic Curvetic is an alternative alphabet for English invented by Simon Ager, the author of Omniglot, in June 2007. It is based on simple curved shapes, hence the name, and was influenced so some extent by the Thai alphabet, and also by Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic scripts such as Cree and Ojibwe. Notable Features Type…
Common Syllabics Common Syllabics was created by Jonathon Grimes during the early 1990s to write the main language used in a role playing game: Common. Jonathon modelled Common Syllabics on the Cree syllabary and on the Devanagari alphabet. Notable features Written from left to right in horizontal lines Diacritics are added to the basic…
Cronam The Cronam alphabet was invented by Nathanael Hodge to write Lantyrian, a language used in a story he started but never completed. He has since gone on to develop it and the language for its own sake. Internal History This script derives ultimately from an earlier logographic script, symbols from which were borrowed…
Crimean Tatar (Qırımtatar tili/Къырымтатар тили) Crimean Tatar is a member of the Kypchak branch of Turkic languages. There are about 300,000 speakers of this language in Crimea, Central Asia, mainly in Uzbekistan, and also in Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria. Crimean Tatar (Qırımtatar tili, Qırımtatarca) is also known as Crimean (Qırım tili, Qırımca) or Crimean Turkish…
Creek (Mvskoke) Creek is a Muskogean language with about 4,700 speakers in the US states of Oklahoma and Florida. It is spoken by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The language is also known as Muskogee, Muscogee or Seminole. Creek first appeared in writing in 1736.…
Cree syllabary (ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ) Origin James Evans, a Wesleyan missionary working at Norway House in Hudson’s Bay, invented a syllabary for the Ojibwe language in about 1840. He had tried to produce a Latin-based orthography for Ojibwe, but eventually gave up and came up with a syllabary, based partly on shorthand. Evans’ syllabary for Ojibwe consisted…
Chromaphonoglyphics (CPG) CPG was created by Richard Brodie, a retired computer programmer now involved in translating Middle English poetry. His goal has been to create a writing system that combines the strong points of both Eastern logographic and Western phonetic language representation paradigms. Notable features Vowels are represented as pure color, filling the space enclosed…
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