Sinhala alphabet Origin The Sinhala alphabet, a descendent of the Brahmi script, started to appear in inscriptions during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. Both the alphabet and the language have changed considerably since then. The earliest surviving literature in Sinhala dates from the 9th century AD. Notable features Type of writing system: syllabic…
Sioux The Siouan languages are spoken in the USA and Canada by a total of roughly 23,000 people. There is considerable mutual intelligibility between these the Lakota and Dakota languages, but only relatively limited intellibility between the other Siouan languages. The name “Sioux” is a French version of the Ojibwa word nadewisou, which means “treacherous…
Reonji Reonji is a hieroglyphic writing system inspired by the Egyptian, Chinese and Japanese scripts and invented by Leonid Eliseev, who started working on it in 1990. He tried to make his script compact, convinient and fast to use. Initially he made it as a script for a constructed language with no pronouncation and…
Rikchik Rikchik, the creation of Denis Moskowitz, is the logographic writing system of alien creatures who use some of their tentacles to sign their language, which is also known as Rikchik. Notable features Used to write: Rikchik Direction of writing: left to right in vertical columns. A Rikchik word is made up of four…
Rirasu alphabet The Rirasu alphabet was created by Samantha Phillips to write her invented language, Vijyal. In Vijyal, “rirasu” translates to “that which is written”. At first, old rirasu, or “kla umi” was a CV syllabary, however the number of glyphs required as well as the use of ending consonants caused this syllabary to…
Rohal The Hal alphabet was invented by Kim Godgul as an alternative script for English and other languages written with the Latin/Roman alphabet. It is an adaptation of the Hal, which is based on the Korean Hangul alphabet, and there is a one-to-one match between Hal and Roman letters. Notable features Type of writing…
RohNejNWqN The RohNejNWqN script was created by Shawn Savoie to write his conlang RohNejLWaN, which is intended to be the language of a new society, not in a fictional world but in reality. It was inspired by the Ancient’s script in the Stargate Universe. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet, though the consonants…
Romanabic Romanabic is a modified version of the Arabic script designed to write English. It was created by Thomas Maska (TomMaska@aol.com), who has always liked the Arabic script and wanted to make it more accessible to English speakers. Notable features Romanabic is written from right to left in horizontal lines. The letters have different shapes…
Romanian (limba română/român) Romanian is a Romance language spoken by about 24 million people in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. Romanian retains a number of features of Latin, such as noun cases, which other Romance languages dispensed with a long time ago. Romanian contains many words taken from the surrounding Slavic languages, and also from French,…
Romansh (rumantsch) Romansh is a Romance language spoken by 50-70,000 people in the Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden). It is one of the four national languages of Switzerland and has semi-official status. Romansh, which is also known as Rumantsch, Romansch or Romanche or Rhaeto-Romansch, is not in fact a single language but rather a cluster…
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