Okinawan (沖縄口 / Uchinaaguchi) Okinawan is a member of the Ryukuan language family spoken on Okinawa and a number of other Ryūkyū islands, which are known as 南西諸島 (Nansei-shoto) or ‘southwest islands’ in Japanese. Uchina (うちなー) is the local name for Okinawa (沖縄). Although it shares a common ancestor and some vocabulary and grammar with…
Old Code Old Code was invented in about 2001 by Ronan Hindle to pass notes in class. It is designed to confuse teachers. The letters have evolved a lot over the course of four years, for example the symbol Nail used to look like ‘zz’ and the symbols Hox and Eye were shaped ‘I’…
Old English / Anglo-Saxon (Englisc) Old English was the West Germanic language spoken in the area now known as England between the 5th and 11th centuries. Speakers of Old English called their language Englisc, themselves Angle, Angelcynn or Angelfolc and their home Angelcynn or Englaland. Old English began to appear in writing during the early…
Old Franaderoan alphabet The Franaderoan or Saconian alphabet is the creation of Alain Lemaire, who invented it in 1993. He thinks he was inspired by the alphabets or ‘secret’ writings he found in computer games like Commander Keen (the SGA), and comic books. There might also have been some influence from Sinhalese, Tamil and…
Old Italic alphabets Origin The Old Italic alphabets developed from the west Greek alphabet, which came to Italy via the Greek colonies on Sicily and along the west coast of Italy. The Etruscans adapted the Greek alphabet to write Etruscan sometime during the 6th century BC, or possibly earlier. Most of the other alphabets used…
Old Norse (Dǫnsk tunga) Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, is a North Germanic language once spoken in Scandinavia, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and in parts of Russia, France and the British Isles. The modern language most closely related to Old Norse is Icelandic, the written form of which has changed little over…
Old Permic alphabet Origin The Old Permic or Abur alphabet was created in the 14th century by the Russian missionary Stepan Khrap (1373- 1395), who become St Stephen of Perm. It was modelled on the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, but many of the letters resemble the Komi religious "Tamga signs". The alphabet was used for…
Olorexh The Olorexh alphabet was invented by Thomas Maska to write his invented language, Olorexh. The language is a splicing of two other languages invented by Thomas, O’horex and Alar. O’horex was much too harsh and Alar was much too soft so he combined them by using most of the grammatical structure of Alar…
Oneida (Onʌyotaʼa:ka) Oneida is a Northern Iroquoian language with about 200 speakers in southern Ontario in Canada, and in New York state and part of Wisconsin in the USA. The native name for the language, Onʌyotaʼa:ka, means ‘people of the standing stone’. The Oneida tribe was one of the original members of the Iroquois Confederacy,…
O’odham (O’odham ñiok) O’odham is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in south-central Arizona and Mexico. It is the one of the most widely spoken Native American language with roughly 45,000 speakers, about 30,000 of whom are fluent. There are two main O’odham dialects: Tohono O’odham (Papago) and Akimel O’odham (Pima), which are largely mutually intelligilble. O’odham…
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