Siddham

Siddham script    Origin The Siddham script is a descendent of the Brahmi script and an ancestor of the Devanagari script. The name Siddham comes from Sanskrit and means “accomplished or perfected” The Siddham script is mainly used by Shingon Buddhists in Japan to write out mantra and sutras in Sanskrit. It was introduced to…

Sigil

SIGIL    The SIGIL alphabet was invented for SIGIL, an a priori language being developed by Ian James since 2006. The acronym stands for Scenic Intuitive Glomerate Ideal Language, and the system for writing it presented here is the 24th version from October 2009, stable enough to be used for transliteration of other languages (such…

Sigilp

Sigil Panel Script    The Sigil Panel script was invented by Ian James for SIGIL, and emerged when the author was struggling with the phonotactics of that language. Unlike the linear script, which simply shows the phoneme stream, this script breaks the stream into syllabic units. For SIGIL these units comprise at most two parts;…

Sign languages

h1>Sign languages Sign languages are forms of communication that use combinations of hand shapes, the orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to convey everything that spoken languages can convey. Manual alphabets or fingerspelling is also used to spell out words and names for which there are no signs. Sign…

Signwriting

h1> Sutton SignWriting Sutton SignWriting, or SignWriting, was created in 1974 by Valerie Sutton. It uses visual symbols to represent the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of signed languages. SignWriting is based on Sutton DanceWriting, a notation system for representing dance movements which Valerie Sutton developed in 1972. SignWriting is a "movement-writing-alphabet", which can be…

Silesian

Silesian (ślůnsko godka / ślůnski) Silesian or Upper Silesian is a West Slavonic language with about 1,250,000 speakers in Upper Silesia, a region that is partly in Poland and partly in the Czech Republic. Silesian is closely related to Polish and is considered a dialect of that language by some linguists. A new Silesian alphabet…

Silte

Silt’e (ስልጥኘ) Silt’e is a Semitic language spoken in Central Ethiopia by about 827,000 people. The majority of Silt’e speakers life in the Silte Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region of Ethiopia, and can also be found in Ethiopia’s cities, particularly in Addis Ababa. Silt’e has been written with a version of…

Similis

Similis    Similis was created by Jamie D one boring night while playing CNK. The basic form was modeled after English and Tengwar (Elvish), hence the dipping, flowing nature. This alphabet can be used to write any language which uses the basic Latin alphabet and Jamie plans to make some additions for Spanish and other…

Simplebet

Simplebet    The Simplebet was invented by Kim Godgul in 2008 as a simple alternative alphabet for writing English. The letters only have one case and the shapes are simpler than the Latin ones. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet. Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines. Used to write: English Simplebet…

Sindhi

Sindhi (سنڌي) Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language with about 17 million speakers in the south-eastern province of Sind in Pakistan and about 2.8 million people in India. The Sindhi language first appeared in writing in the 8th century AD and a number of different scripts have been used to write it. Sindhi literature, in particular…