Yakut (саха тыла) Yakut or Sakha is a Turkic language with about 363,000 speakers in the Russian Federation, mainly in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and also in the Amur, Magadan, Sakhalin regions and the Taimyr and Evenki autonomous districts. Yakut first appeared in writing in 1692 as part of a book by the traveller…
Yapese Yapese is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian sub-group of Austronesian languages. It is spoken by about 6,600 people in the State of Yap, part of the Federated States of Micronesia, an archipelago of islands in the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Papua New Guinea. Yapese first appeared in writing in a work on…
yapusazh yapusazh is the alphabetic representation of the Sinnish language (lidosazh in its own tongue). yapusazh and Sinnish were invented by Scott ‘Blade’ Hamilton for use in a series of stories and role-playing games set in an urban fantasy background. Noteable features yapusazh is an alphabet written from left to right like English. There…
Yaqui (Yoem Noki) Yaqui or Yoeme is an Uto-Aztecan language with about 16,000 speakers in Sonora and Sinaloa in Mexico, and in Tucson and Guadalupe in Arizona in the USA. The majority of Yaqui speakers, or Pascua-Yaqui, live in Mexico. Yaqui pronunciation These are the letters used to write Yaqui in Arizona. Notes D, F…
Yerukula Yerukula is a Dravidian language spoken by about 70,000 people in parts of Andhra Pradesh in India. The language is also known as Kurru basha or Kulavatha and is closely related to Ravula and Irula, and more distantly related to Tamil. The Yerukula people call themselves Kurru: the name Yerukula comes from their women’s…
Yi script and language The origins of the Yi script are unknown, though it is believed that it was invented during the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD) by Aki (阿畸 or 阿〇). The earliest known examples of Yi writing date from 1485 but some of the numerous manuscripts and monumental inscriptions in the Yi script…
Yiddish (ײִדיש / מאַמע לשון) Yiddish is a Germanic language with about three million speakers, mainly Ashkenazic Jews, in the USA, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and many other countries. The name Yiddish is probably an abbreviated version of ייִדיש־טײַטש (yidish-taytsh), which means “Jewish German”. There have been Jews in area that is now Germany since Roman times.…
Yindjibarndi (Indjibandi) Yindjibarndi is a member of the Ngayarta (Pil-bara) group of the south-western branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family. It was originally spoken in the tableland area of the Pilbara and is now still spoken around Roebourne, the north west of Western Australia by several hundred people. There also is a programme to teach…
Yivga The Yivga alphabet was invented by Steve Wilson in 2009 as a therapeutic aesthetic exercise. He chose the name Yivya because he likes words that start with ‘Y-‘ and that contain the consonants ‘v’ and (velar) ‘g’. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Writing direction: left to right Used to write:…
Yolngu (Yolŋu matha) Yolngu or Yolŋu is a member of the Pama-Nyungan family of languages. It is spoken in the north-eastern part of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia by about 2,000 people. There are 12 dialects of Yolngu with significant variation between them, though there is a fair degree of mutual intelligibility…
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