Sunscript

Sunscript    Sunscript is the creation of Colin Williams. He created it when he had nothing better to do in school and based its appearance partly on Arabic and partly on some of the Indian syllabic alphabets. Colin uses Sunscript to write “navthāladasȧ“, a language he invented after the creating the alphabet. The language is…

Sunshee

Sunshee alphabet    The Sunshee alphabet was invented by Sam Rosenthal in 2004 when he should have been at school. Sam and his friends sometimes use it, often to communicate in secret. The alphabet is used to write Welsh, but can be easily adapted to write English. Notable features Written from left to right in…

Suritanyo

Suritanyo    Suritanyo is an alternative alphabet for English created by Veljko Batinic. He has been working on it since 1996, during which time it has undergone many changes. Notable features Used to write: English Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines. A different combining form of h is used for the digraphs…

Svan

Svan (ლუშნუ ნინ) Svan is a South Caucasian language spoken by about 30,000 people in the north west of Georgia in Svaneti (სვანეთი). There are also several thousand Svan speakers in Kodori Valley (კოდორის ხეობა) in the Republic of Abkhazia, a disputed political entity which considers itself an independent country, but which is considered part…

Swahili

Swahili (kiSwahili) Swahili is a Bantu language spoken by about 35 million people in Tanzania, Burundi, Congo (Kinshasa) Kenya, Mayotte, Mozambique, Oman, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, UAE and the USA. Swahili is an official language of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya and is used as a lingua franca throughout East Africa. The name Swahili comes…

Swati

Swati (siSwati) Swati is part of the Nguni group of Bantu languages and is spoken by about 1.5 million people in Swaziland and South Africa. It is one of the eleven official languages in South Africa and is taught in the schools of Swaziland, and in some South African schools. Swati, which is also known…

Swedish

Swedish (Svenska) Swedish is a North Germanic language with around 9 million speakers mainly in Sweden and Finland, and also in Estonia, Norway, Canada and the USA. It is closely related to Norwegian and Danish and is mutually intelligible with them to a large extent, particularly in its written form. One of the earliest uses…

Sylabica

Sylabica   Sylabica /sɨlaˈbiʦa/ is an alternative alphabet for Polish invented by Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk in 1990. Since then it has undergone a number of revisions. Sylabica was inspired by Japanese hiragana and katakana, although it’s looks more like Korean hangul. Like in the standard Polish orthography, the spelling of Sylabica is not strictly phonetic,…

Syloti

Syloti-Nagri alphabet    The Syloti-Nagri alphabet is related to the Kaithi alphabet of Bihar. The exact origins of the alphabet are unknown and the earliest surviving manuscripts dates from either 1549 or 1774 (the date is given within the manuscript though the text is not clear at that point). The traditionally story of the origin…

Symetrika

Symetrika    The Symetrika alphabet was invented by Michal Hospodár as an alternative alphabet for Slovak, but can be used to write most other languages as it represents many of the sounds of the IPA. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines Used to write: Slovak,…