Phonetic Picture-Writing Phonetic Picture-Writing was invented by Leonhard Heinzmann as an ideographic writing system. It consists of 12 simple letters which can be combined in a variety of ways to resemble the objects. The words created in this way form a constructed language. Phonetic Picture-Writing letters Example words The words above can be spoken easily…
Proto-Sinaitic / Proto-Canaanite The Proto-Sinaitic script was the first alphabetic writing system and developed sometime between about 1900 and 1700 BC. People speaking a Semitic language and living in Egypt and Sinai adapted the Egyptian hieroglyphic or hieratic scripts to write their language using the acrophonic principle. This invovled choosing about 30 glyphs, translating their…
Psalter The Psalter script, or Psalter Pahlavi, is named after a manuscript known as the “Pahlavi Psalter”, which dates from the 6th or 7th century AD and was found at Bulayiq near Turpan in the northwest of China. The manuscript contains a translation of a Syriac book of psalms and is the earliest known piece…
Pseudoglyphs Pseudoglyphs were created by Andrew Mendes in early 2004. As the name suggests, it is actually a syllabary where words are assembled phonetically then morphed into distinct glyph-like forms. Glyphs can be sounded out phonetically, but given their complex nature, they must be memorized individually when learning to write. This gives the writing…
Passing the River alphabet Origin The Passing the River or Passage du Fleuve alphabet is derived from the Hebrew alphabet and was created by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa during the 16th Century. Notable features Type of writing system: abjad Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines The Passing the River / Passage du…
Pulmis Pulmis was invented by Bobby Morris as alternative alphabet for English. It’s designed to be as structurally simple as possible whilst maintaining a kind of phonetic meaning in the symbols. The name “pulmis” is a modified rearrangement of the word “simple”. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to…
Punic Punic was a semitic language descended from Phoenican and spoken until about the 4th Century AD in Carthage in what is now Tunisia, and other parts of North Africa and around the Mediterreaen. The Punic alphabet developed from the Phoenician alphabet and was used for monumental inscriptions, while the cursive Neo-Punic alphabet was…
Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ / پنجابی) Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 105 million people mainly in West Punjab in Pakistan and in East Punjab in India. Punjabi descended from the Shauraseni language of medieval northern India and became a distinct language during the 11th century. In India Punjabi is written with the Gurmukhi (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ)…
Puzzle Code The Puzzle Code was invented by Josh Ragsdell in November of 2006. The original inspiration for this alphabet was another writing system on Omniglot, Betamaze, which gave Josh the idea to create a system where the letters fit together – a puzzle. Notable features Used to write: English Direction of writing: left…
Qelsh The Qelsh script was invented in December 2009 by Nathan Baciao to write his conlang by the same name. Inspiration for the language came to him one night when he heard its sounds when walking on a beach in his dreams. Notable Features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: right to…
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