Languages

h1>Ojibwe syllabary (ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ) 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…

Okinawan (沖縄口 / Uchinaaguchi) Okinawan is a member of the Ryukuan language family spoken on Okinawa and a number of other Ryūkyū islands, which are known as 南西諸島 (Nansei-shoto) or…

Old Code    Old Code was invented in about 2001 by Ronan Hindle to pass notes in class. It is designed to confuse teachers. The letters have evolved a lot…

Old English / Anglo-Saxon (Englisc) Old English was the West Germanic language spoken in the area now known as England between the 5th and 11th centuries. Speakers of Old English…

Old Franaderoan alphabet    The Franaderoan or Saconian alphabet is the creation of Alain Lemaire, who invented it in 1993. He thinks he was inspired by the alphabets or 'secret'…