Theban alphabet The origins of the Theban alphabet are lost in the mists of time. It is often called "The Runes of Honorius" after its reputed inventor, Honorius of Thebes. It is also known as the ‘Witch’s Alphabet’. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines…
Thengic The Thengic alphabet was created by Harry Godfrey in order to write notes in secret. The letter shapes are based on Runic alphabets, the English Alphabet, Ancient Greek, the IAP and early Latin alphabets. Notable features Written from left to right in horizontal lines. Vowels are indicated by accents when they occur before…
Thoorsha for English The Thoorsha alphabet is an alternative alphabet for English created by Matthew Howie on in June 2006 during a few sick days off school. It is based on scripts such as Cyrillic, Latin and Armenian. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines…
Tibetan Origin During the 7th Century AD Songstem Gampo [སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ་] (569-649AD), the 33rd king of the Yarlung Dynasty of southern Tibet and the first Emperor of Tibet, sent Thonmi Sambhota, one of his ministers, to India to gather information on Buddhism. The minister then reputedly devised a script for Tibetan based on the Devanagari…
Tifinagh Origin The Tifinagh alphabet is thought to have derived from the ancient Berber script. The name Tifinagh possibly means ‘the Phoenician letters’, or possibly from the phrase tifin negh, which means ‘our invention’. Since September 2003, the Tifinagh alphabet children in Moroccan primary schools have been taught to write Tamazight with the Tifinagh…
Tigre (ትግረ / ትግሬ / ኻሳ) Tigre is a member of the Ethiopic branch of South Semitic languages. It is spoken by about 800,000 people in Eritrea, particularly in western parts of that country, and also in neighbouring areas of Sudan, where the language is known as Xasa (ኻሳ). It is thought to have descended…
Tigrinya (ትግርኛ) Tigrinya is a member of the Ethiopic branch of Semitic languages with about 6 million speakers mainly in the Tigre region of Ethiopia and in Central Eritrea. There are also large immigrant communities of Tigrinya speakers in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, the USA, Germany, Italy the UK, Canada and Sweden, as well as in…
Tlingit (Lingít, Łingít) Tlingit is a Na-Dene language distantly related to Eyak and the Athabaskan languages, with around 400 native speakers in the USA and Canada. It is spoken in Southeast Alaska from Yakutat (Yaakwdáat, Yàkwdât) south to the Canadian border at Portland Canal, and in Canada inland from British Columbia into south central Yukon…
ToCha’r Origin ToCha’r is a fantasy script for the language of the Dwarves of Ehtome-Naom in the swords & sorcery roleplaying game, Worlde Arcane. Notable Features ToCha’r means “depicted thought,” the ‘r being a past-participle mopheme. Whereas a large percentage of characters in other writing sytems (especially connected scripts!) are contiguous strokes, 14 of…
Tocharian alphabet Origin The existence of the Tocharian language and alphabet only came to light in the early 20th century, when fragments of manuscripts in a then unknown alphabet were discovered in Xinjiang in north-western China. Once the manuscripts were deciphered, they proved, much to the amazement of linguists, to be in an hitherto unknown…
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