Slovio Slovio is a simplified Slavonic language devised by Mark Hucko (info@slovio.com) intended as an international auxiliary language comprehensible to speakers of all Slavonic languages, who number about 400 million. Notable features Slovio can be written with the Latin or Cyrillic alphabets without any accents or special characters. It has a simple logical grammar and…
Snow Script Snow Script, or Niphadic, was invented by Simon Whitechapel to write his constructed language, Niphadic. He uses it in his story, Our Lady of the Snows. The name Niphadic comes from the Greek νιφας-νιφαδος, niphas-niphados (snowflake), and was used by the priestesses of Our Lady of the Snows and was based on…
Sobatha alphabet The Sobatha alphabet was made by Sam Block (teanke (at) mac.com) around the end of the 2003-2004 school year. He has had a fascination with writing systems and languages, and has made many of them. Sobatha is used to write the language of Cujoltha. Sobatha is an archaic variant of the word…
Sogdian The Sogdian script developed from the Aramaic and was first used during the 4th century AD. The earliest form of the script, shown below, was used to write letters and for inscriptions. A cursive version of the script was used in secular documents, royal proclamations, and Buddhist and Manichaen manuscripts. The Sogdian script largely…
h1>Solresol Origin Solresol was invented by François Sudre (1787-1864). He started working on it in 1817 and work on it continued until 1866. Sudre hoped Solresol would be used to facilitate international communication and deliberately made the language very simple, so it would be easy to learn, and unlike any natural language to avoid…
h1>Somali (af Soomaali) Somali is a member of the East Cushtic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It has 10-16 million native speakers and perhaps half a million second language speakers mainly in Somali, where it is an official language, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya. There are also significant numbers of Somali speakers in Europe, North…
Sorang Sompeng script Origin Before the invention of the the Sorang Sompeng script, the Sora language was written with the Latin, Telugu or Oriya scripts. Speakers of Telugu and Oriya were keen to promote their scripts to the Sora people, who, instead of choosing one or the other, decided to try to come up…
Sorbian (hornjoserbsce/dolnoserbski) Sorbian, or Wendisch, is a member of the West Slavic subgroup of Indo-European languges spoken by about 55,000 people in Upper and Lower Lusatia in the German Länder of Saxony and Brandenburg. The Sorbs are descendents of the Wends, the German name for the Slavic tribes who occupied the area between the Elbe…
h1>Sourashtra alphabet Origin The Sourashtra alphabet was developed towards the end of the 19th century. A number of Sourashtra letters a similar to letters in the Oriya and Gujarati alphabets. Sourashtra has also been written with Telugu and Devanagari alphabets but is usually written with a slightly modified version of the Tamil alphabet. Notable…
South Arabian The South Arabian alphabet is thought to have developed from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet in about the 9th century BC. It is known from inscriptions found in Eritrea, Babylonia and Yemen dating from between 9th century BC and 7th century AD, and was used to write Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramautic, Minaean, Himyarite and proto-Ge’ez,…
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