Russian (Русский язык) Russian is an Eastern Slavonic language closely related to Ukrainian and Belarusian with about 277 million speakers mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus. It is also spoken in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonian, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Finland, Mongolia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Israel, Afghanistan, the USA, Canada and a number of countries. The…
Ruthenian (Rusyn/Русин) Ruthenian is an eastern Slavonic language with about 55,000 speakers in Slovakia, 21,000 in the former Yugoslavia, an estimated 30,000 in Poland and perhaps as many as 700,000 in the Transcarpathia region of Ukraine. It has two distinctive dialects: Carpatho-Rusyn, which is spoken in Ukraine and is closely related to Ukrainian and Russian,…
h1>Ryakumoji Ryakumoji (略文字), from Japanese 略 (ryaku), abbreviation, and 文字 (moji), characters/letters, is a system of writing the kana syllabic scripts of Japanese with fewer characters to r emember. It was invented by deramoz out of his interest in the Japanese scripts, with both of them as inspiration for the shape of each letter.…
Ryszalean The Ryszalean alphabet was created by Aryssa and Zalea Ebbeler in 2011, with the help of their dad, Sheldon. The names of the two girls combine to form the name of the code. The alphabet itself is a spelling code or cipher, not a phonetic alphabet, in that each symbol stands for…
Sámi languages The Sámi languages are Uralic languages with about 24,500 speakers in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. The area traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people is known as Sápmi in North Sámi, Saemie in South Sámi and Sameland in Norwegian and Swedish. The Sámi languages are divided into two groups: Western and Eastern, and…
Renglish/Ренглиш Renglish is an alternative method of writing English using the Cyrillic or Latin alphabets invented by Slacknet Communications, who spent a few months testing and perfecting the Cyrillic version with help from several Russians and a Serbian. Notable features Some letters in the Cyrillic version do not represent the same sounds as the original…
Pana The Pana alphabet was invented by Zhao Ze (Kenet Jervet), a junior software engineer from China in August, 2011. It was initially used as the standard alphabet for his conlang “Saya Pana” but can also be used to write English, French, and Japanese and so on. Like the Lao alphabet, the Pana alphabet…
Pangasinan (Salitan Pangasinan) Pangasinan or Pangasinese is spoken by about 1.5 million people mainly in the province of Pangasinan, where it is the official regional language, on the west side of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. There are also Pangasinan speakers in other parts of the Philippines, particularly in the province of Benguet,…
Papiamento (Papiamentu) Papiamento is a Creole language containing elements of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English and French, as well as Arawak and African languages. It is spoken by about 330,000 people on the islands of the Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba). Papiamento is an official language of the Netherlands Antilles along with Dutch, which is the…
Parthian script Origin The Parthian script developed from the Aramaic script around the 2nd century BC and was used during the Parthian and Sassanian periods of the Persian empire. The latest known inscription dates from 292 AD. Notable features Written from right to left in horizontal lines. Only some vowels are indicated and the letters…
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