Sheli Toj Sheli Toj, which means “Sheli Writing System”, is the name of the script used to write the Sheli language, created by David J. Peterson in 2001. Sheli is a fairly complex tone language with an inverse animacy system. Notable features Type of writing system: Sheli Toj is an alphabet, but is written…
Motekye’s Sheren alphabet Sheren was created by Phil (Motekye) Pappajohn in June of 2004 when he went on a short vacation and needed to tell people both where he was going and a good reason not to update his weblog. The answer came in the form of a short, but cryptic looking message written…
h1>Shilluk (Dhɔg Cɔlɔ) Shilluk is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by about 175,000 people in southern Sudan. It is also known as Chollo, Chulla, Colo, Dhocolo and Shulla, and is closely related to Dholuo. Shilluk speakers live along the western and eastern bank of the Nile around the city of Malakal. Shilluk is written with an…
Shiwi The Shiwi alphabet was invented by Kiro to write a language of the same name that appears in a story she is writing. Shiwi can also be used to write English, and is modelled on Middle Persian alphabets. Notable features Writing direction: left to right in vertical columns or left to right in…
Sholanquano alphabet The Sholanquano alphabet is the invention of Asa (apollotiger[at]ix.netcom.com) and is based on the Arabic script with vowel diacritics based on the Tengwar script. He uses it to write a conlang that he and a friend are working on. Notable features Each letter has a different shape depending on it’s position in…
Shona (chiShona) Shona is a member of the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken by about nine million people mainly in Zimbabwe, where more than 80% of the population are Shona speakers. There are also speakers in Zambia, Mozambique and Botswana. A standard written form of Shona was codified during the…
Shor (Шор тили) Shor is a Turkic language spoken by about 10,000 people in the Kemerovo Province of south-central Siberia. It has two main dialects: Mrasu and Kondoma, which are more or less mutually intelligible. Shor contains many loanwords from Mongolian and Russian. Shor was first written with a version of the Latin alphabet devised…
Shorthand Shorthand is any system of rapid handwriting which can be used to transcribe the spoken word. Shorthand systems use a variety of techniques including simplifying existing letters or characters and using special symbols to represent phonemes, words and phrases. A brief history of shorthand systems Ever since the invention of writing scribes have used…
Shoshone Shoshone or Shonshoni is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming in the USA by about 3,000 people, a few hundred of whom speak the language fluently. The main dialects of Shoshone include Western Shoshone, which is spoken in Nevada, Gosiute in western Utah, Northern Shoshone in southern Idaho and…
h1>Sicilian (lu sicilianu) Sicilian is a Romance language with about 5 million speakers in Sicily and in parts of Calabria and Puglia in southern Italy. There are also many Sicilians and people of Sicilian origin in the USA, Canada, Australia, Argentina and Germany. In Sicily the majority of Sicilians are bilingual in Sicilian and Italian.…
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