Todhri The Todhri alphabet is thought to have been invented by Theodor or Todhri Haxhifilipi (1730-1805) of Elbasan in Central Albania, although it is not known when it was invented or what alphabet(s) it was modelled on or derived from. The alphabet featured in a number of scholarly works, including those by Johann Georg…
Tokelauan Tokelauan is a Polynesian language with about 1,600 speakers in Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand to the north of Samoa and east of Tuvalu consisting of three coral atolls: Atafu, Fakaofo and Nukunonu. There are also about 3,000 speakers of Tokelau in New Zealand, and a few more in the Swains Islands near…
Toki Pona Toki Pona was invented by Sonja Elen Kisa and first published online in 2001. It is a simple pidgin-like language based on universal human experience designed to express as much as possible with relatively few sounds and words. The name toki pona means “good language” or “simple language”. Toki Pona has only 14…
Tok Pisin Tok Pisin is an English-based creole spoken in Papua New Guinea by about 4 million people, 120,000 of whom speak it as their first language. It is one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea and the most widely used language in that country The word tok means “word” or “speech” as…
Tongan (Faka-Tonga) Tongan is a member of the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages spoken by about 95,000 people mainly in Tonga. It is also spoken in American Samoa, Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, Niue, the USA and Vanuatu. It closely related to Niue, Wallisian and Samoan. Tongan was first written by missionaries in the…
Touq Tsh’c The Touq Tsh’c script was created in April 2006 by Christopher Yale Tang (唐泰川) to write his dialect of Chinese, Yoz Yangq Fad. In March 2006, after one of his classmates showed Christopher his “discovery” that Yoz Yangq Fad in Yueyang was greatly influenced by Mandarin Chinese, Christopher came up with the…
Trantanese Trantanese is a language and writing system created by Albert Nguyen for use in a fictional country, Trantan. The letter shapes are based on parts of Chinese characters but they are arranged in syllable blocks in a similar way to Korean Hangul. Originally Albert intended to create a syllabic writing system for Vietnamese,…
Skolt Sámi (Sääˊmǩiõll / Nuõrttsää’m) Skolt Sámi is an Eastern Sámi language with about 400 speakers in Finland and Russia. The majority of speakers live in Sevettijärvi in Finland, and there are also some in the area surrounding Lake Lovozero in Russia. After the Second World War Skolt Sámi people living in Finnish territory in…
Slovak (Slovenský) Slovak is a Western Slavonic language spoken by about 5.6 million people in Slovakia and also in Canada, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine and the USA. Slovak is closely related to Czech, Polish, and Sorbian. Documents in Slovak started to appear in the 15th century, however a widely accepted literary standard for Slovak did…
Slovenian (slovenščina/slovenski jezik) Slovenian or Slovene is a South Slavic language spoken by about 2.5 million people mainly in Slovenia, and also in Italy, particularly in Friuli Venezia Giulia; in Austria especially in Carinthia and Styria; in Vas in Hungary, and and also in Croatia. Slovenian is closely related to Croatian and Serbian, particularly to…
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