Phono Braille

Phono Braille    The Braille alphabet is a transcription of letters into plot-based characters to be read by blind readers through touch. However the characters are primarily built following the alphabetical order of the Latin alphabet on which is superposed a systematic sequence of plot patterns. Hence the final plot-characters have neither consistency with the…

Phonogic

Phonogic alphabet The Phonogic alphabet is the creation of Charles Smith, a recent graduate of the the University of Minnesota. Charles has been interested in inventing alphabets since his senior year at high school and has invented a variety of alphabets since then. He started working on Phonogic in 2002 with a view to producing…

Phonographics

Phonographics    Phonographics is an alternative way to write/read English invented by Heron Stone. The symbols are called “grafs”, and the sounds are called “fonz”. Phonographics designates 29 basic fonz and corresponding grafs to represens the sounds of spoken English. There are two different symbol sets in Phonographics: fono.1 and fono.2. fono.1 is an altered…

Phrygian

Phrygian    Phrygian was an Indo-European language related to Dacian and Thracian and belonging to the Paleo-Balkan branch of languages. It was spoken in Central Asia Minor until about the 5th century AD. The earliest known inscriptions in Phyrgian date from the 8th century BC and were written in an alphabet derived from Phoenician. The…

Pictosounds

h1>Pictosounds    Pictosounds were created by Jerry Prince to be the alphabet for an international auxiliary language he is currently working on. Any feedback would be appreciated. The Pictosounds are images based on the position of the mouth and tongue when saying the letter. It should be easy to learn the entire alphabet by understanding…

Piedmontese

Piedmontese (Piemonteis) Piedmontese is a Romance language spoken by about 3 million people throughout the Piemonte (Piemont) region of northwest Italy, except in the province of Novara and in the Provençal and Franco Provençal valleys. It is also spoken in Australia, Chile and Argentina, where about 30% of people are of a North Italian origin.…

Pipeline 3D

Pipeline 3D Pipeline 3D was invented in by 741 after being inspired by other scripts on Omniglot. He got the inspiration for a 3-dimensional pipeline script after seeing a board game of the same name. Originally he intended it to be made of plumbing pipes, but it ended up as a tubular circuit that could…

Pipil

Pipil (Nawat/Náhuat) Pipil is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by about 3,000 people in parts of El Salvador, particularly in the departments of Sonsonate and Ahuachapán. Since the 1990s there have been various efforts to revive and revitalise the language, including the Nawat Language Recovery Initiative. Thanks to these grassroots movements, which receive no government support,…

Piraha

Pirahã (híaitíihí) Pirahã is thought to be the last surviving member of the Mura language family. It is spoken by about 150 people, who live along the Maici river, a tributary of the Amazon in Amazonas State of Brazil. Pirahã has one of the smallest inventories of phonemes of any living language. There are differences…

Pite Sami

Pite Sámi (bidumsámegiella) Pite Sámi is a Western Sámi language spoken in Sweden by between 25 and 50 people. It was formerly spoken in Norway as well, but is now only spoken in Sweden along the Pite River in Arjeplog municipality (Árjepluovve). It is also known as Arjeplog Sámi, and is closely related to Lule…