Narkhokul The Narkhokul alphabet was created by Katie Molnar to write a fictional language. The name Narkhokul means “the signs of the land,” in reference to the fictional place where Draphei, the language Narkhokul is used to write, is spoken. That place is Narthrall, part of the fictional world Katie and others collaborate on as…
Naskapi (ᓇᔅᑲᐱ/Innu Aimun) Naskapi is an Central Algonquian language with about 525 speakers in the Innu community of Kawawachikamach (ᑲᐛᐛᒋᑲᒪᒡ) in Northern Quebec and Mushuau in Labrador, Canada. The name Naskapi means “lousy dressers” in Montagnais. They call themselves Innu, and are part of the same Nation as the Montagnais, though their languages are distinct.…
Nav This script was invented by Ian James, who was inspired by the language used in James Cameron’s movie Avatar, released in December 2009. The language Na’vi was in turn invented by linguist Paul Frommer. The speakers of this language live on the fictional planet Pandora in a natural symbiosis with the flora and…
Navajo (Diné Bizaad) Navajo is a member of the Athabaskan branch of the Na-Dené language family and is spoken by about 120,000 people in Arizona and New Mexico. It is closely related to the Apache languages, but completely unrelated to other Native American languages. Navajo first appeared in writing in 1849 in the form of…
Naxi scripts Naxi (a.k.a. Nakhi, Naqxi, Nasi) belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family. About 300,000 people speak Naxi in the Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan, particularly in the Lijiang (丽江) region. There are also Naxi people in Tibet and possibly in Burma/Myanmar. Naxi has been written with three different scripts:…
Ndebele (isiNdebele / Nrebele / Sindebele) There are two languages called Ndebele: Southern Ndebele and Northern Ndebele. Both are part of the Nguni group of Bantu languages, but they are not very closely related. South Ndebele (isiNdebele) is spoken by about 590,000 people in South Africa, where it is one of the official languages. There…
Ndjuká syllabary Origin The Ndjuká syllabary was invented by Afaka Atumisi of eastern Suriname in 1910. Afaka claimed that he was divinely inspired in his invention. Notable features The glyphs of this syllabary are based on Latin and Arabic letters and numerals, and on traditional African graphic symbols. Used to write Ndjuká or Aukan,…
Neapolitan (napulitano) Neapolitan is a Romance language spoken by about seven or eight million people in southern Italy, especially in the city of Naples (Nàpule/Napoli) and in Campania and southern Lazio. Neapolitan is part of a continuum of dialects spoken in most of southern Italy, though many would only use the term “Neapolitan” only to…
Ne’ith Internal history Ne’ith is a language written by the Tutar Ne’ith, people who inhabit the G’meh Tutar, which lies on the southern end of Escerna. It is an evolution of Evanaescryt, which is the ancient tongue of the land. The Tutar Ne’ith worshiped nature, unlike their brutal neighbors to the north, the Avallaens.…
Nenets (Ненэця’ вада/Nenėcjaˀ vada) Nenets belongs to the Samoyedic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. It is spoken by about 27,000 people in Siberia, particularly in the Nenets, Yamalo-Nenets, and Taymyr Autonomous Okrugs, in the Komi Republic, and in the eastern parts of Murmansk Oblast on the Kola peninsula. There are two main dialects of Nenets:…
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