Neorunic

Neorunic script    The Neorunic script is a alternative alphabet for English invented by Eric Johnson, who thinks that there are too many silent letters and strange ways to pronunce words in the English language. This script is designed to make it easier to determine the sounds of each word for foreigners studying English. Notable…

Nepali

Nēpālī (नेपाली) Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language with around 17 million speakers in Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and India. Nepali was originally known as Khas Kurā and was the language of the Khasa kingdom, which ruled over the foothills of what is now Nepal during the 13th and 14th centuries. Nepali first started to be used…

New Akha

New Akha   The New Akha alphabet is an alternative way of writing the Akha language, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken Yunnan province of China, Thailand and Burma by about 1 million people. It was devised by Ian James. There are a number of other methods of writing Akha using the Latin alphabet. Part of Ian’s…

New Cursive

Newcursive    Newcursive is a phonetic alphabet for writing English, particularly English as pronunced with Received Pronunciation (RP). It was invented by John Kay after he saw the Shaw alphabet for the first time and realised that not only was it difficult for English speakers to adapt to because the letters have little relationship with…

New Maori

New Maori   The New Maori script is a creation of Ian James. It is an alternative to the Roman alphabet normally used for the otherwise script-less Maaori language of New Zealand. Part of the aim was to suggest a ‘formal’ or ‘sacred’ alphabet for the recording of special poems and songs, while maintaining a…

New Mong

New Mong   The New Mong alphabet is an alternative way of writing the Mong or Hmong languages, which are spoken in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and China. It was devised by Ian James, who finds the use of the modern Latin alphabet to represent Asian languages uncomfortable, especially considering how some of the most beautiful…

New Nikhilipi

New Nikhilipi alphabet The New Nikhilipi alphabet was invented by Nikhil Sinha in September 2005 with the aim of making Indian languages easier to use on the internet and on computers in general. At the moment because they are difficult to type, Indic scripts only have a very negligible presence on the internet and in…

Ngala

Ngala    Ngala is system of quasi-featural glyphs, mostly monosyllabic used to represent the Qatama language. Ngala and the Qatama conlang were invented by Carl Buck for use in his conworld, Qatama. It was created as an alternative to the alphabet Moj. Notable features Ngala can be written vertically, in columns running from left to…

Ngiyambaa

h1>Ngiyambaa Ngiyambaa is a member of the Wiradhuric subgroup of the Pama-Nyungan language family. It was originally spoken by the Wailwan and Wiraibon, East Australian tribes in the geographical centre of New South Wales between the Sandy Creek near Cobar to the north and the Willandra Creek near Ivanhoe to the south. Now Ngiyampaa speakers…

Nheengatu

Nheengatu (ñe’engatú) Nheengatu is a Tupí-Guarani language with about 3,000 speakers in Brazil, 3,000 in Colombia and 2,000 in Venezuela. In Brazil the language is spoken mainly along the Rio Negro, and is also known as língua geral da Amazônia or língua geral amazônica, or “Amazonian General Language”. It is also known as nhengatu, nyengatú,…