Romany Romany, or Romani, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 5-6 million Roma people throughtout Europe and the USA. The largest concetration of Roma people live in Romania. In English these people are often called Gypsies. The language is closely related to the languages of northern India, particularly Punjabi, and the Roma are thought…
Romulan alphabet Origin The Romulan alphabet developed from an alphabet called Kzhad created in about 1988 by Monte Thrasher (MonteThrasher@aol.com), a designer and illustrator in Los Angeles, who also designed the Romulan Imperial Insignia. Monte based Kzhad on the shapes of LED displays. The Romulan or Rihannsu language was created by Diane Duane for use…
Rongorongo script Origin The people of Easter Island were possibly inspired to invent the Rongorongo script after seeing the writing used by the Spanish when they annexed the island in 1770. The Easter Islanders were apparently impressed by the mana or power of the Spaniards’ writing. Rongorongo was used until the 1860s, after which knowledge…
Rotokas Rotokas is an East Papuan language spoken on the island of Bougainville, an island which is part of Papua New Guinea and which located to the east of New Guinea. There are three main dialects: Central Rotokas, Aita Rotokas and Pipipaia. Central Rotokas has one of the smallest inventories of phonemes in the world.…
Rotor Script Rotor is an experimental script created by Simon Whitechapel to realize the concept of letters that literally move on the “page”. It consists of pairs of letters in which the members of each pair are identical except for the way they move. In almost all pairs one member turns clockwise, the other anti-clockwise…
Rotuman (Faeag Rotuma) Rotuman is a member of the Oceanic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family with about 9,000 speakers on the Rotuma islands Rotuman was first written by French and English missionaries, who developed different spelling systems for the language. Today the system invented by the English Methodist missionary Reverend C. M. Churchward in…
Revised Shaw Abjad Origin The Revised Shaw Abjad or Shaw Phonetic Alphabet is a version of the Shavian Alphabet. It is designed to represent English phonetically, while at the same time minimizing the variations in vowel letters due to differences in accent. It was developed by Paul Vandenbrink in 1996 and further revised in…
Rtug alphabet The Rtug alphabet was invented by “Neonlights” in 2010. He drew inspiration from the cursive Arabic abjad. The alphabet is used to write the Rnin language. Notable features Type of script: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right, in horizontal lines Contains 18 consonants (four of which are syllabic) and 10 vowels Contains…
Runic alphabet Origin Little is known about the origins of the Runic alphabet, which is traditionally known as futhark after the first six letters. In Old Norse the word rune means ‘letter’, ‘text’ or ‘inscription’. The word also means ‘mystery’ or ‘secret’ in Old Germanic languages and runes had a important role in ritual…
Runtrikha alphabet Runtrikha is an alternative alphabet for English created by David Govan, who was inspired to create the shapes of its characters after careful examination of his fallen hair in his house. This is why most of the characters look rounded and at first rather alike. This is the case, at first glance,…
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