Nikhilipi alphabet The Nikhilipi alphabet is the creation of Nikhil Sinha. It is designed to write any Indo-Aryan language and, with a few additional letters, the Dravidian languages as well. The name combines Nikhil’s first name and the word lipi, which means script in Hindi. Notable features Can be used to write just about any…
Nirichaen Nirichaen is an alphabet designed by Pieter Rottiers during a very boring day at school. It took him exactly two days to get it into its current form and make a font for it. The name Nirichaen is a Dardanian word and means ninety. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of…
Niuean (ko e vagahau Niuē) Niuean is a Polynesian language spoken by about 8,000 people, the majority of whom live in New Zealand. There are also Niuean speakers in Niue, where almost the entire population of about 2,000 speak the language, the Cook Islands and Tonga. The closest relative of Niuean is Tongan, while Maori,…
Nǀuu Nǀuu is the only surviving member of the !Ui branch of the Tuu or Khoisan language. It was declared extinct in 1973, but in the 1990s the South African San Institute managed to find 25 people who could speak or understand the language. Today there are fewer than 10 speakers left in South Africa…
Nivkh (Нивхгу/Nivxgu) Nivkh or Gilyak is a language isolate spoken by about 1,000 people in Outer Manchuria along the Amgun and Amur rivers and part of Sakhlin Island. There are three main dialects: Amur, East Sakhlin and North Sakhlin, with only limited mutally intelligibilty between them. Nivkh is unrelated to any other language, though is…
N’Ko alphabet The N’Ko alphabet was invented by Soulemayne Kante of Kankan, Guinea, in 1949. It is mainly used by speakers of Malinke, Bambara, Dyula and their dialects, especially in Guinea, Mali and Ivory Coast. Soulemayne Kante was born in 1922. As a young man, he was angered when he read that some foreigners…
h1>Nogai (Ногай тили / Nogay tili) Nogai is a Turkic language spoken by about 90,000 people in southwestern Russia, mainly in Dagestan, Stavropol, Karachay-Cherkessia and in the Mineralnye Vody District. It is a member of the Kipchak-Nogay branch of Kipchak Turkic, is also known as Nogay or Nogai Tatar, and is related to Kazakh, Kyrgyz,…
Nóläm Fabian Alvarez Lopez began to be develop the Nóläm or Drihleön alphabet in about 1989, when he was still in High School. It was inspired by the Devanagari alphabet, but unlike it, it’s a true alphabet, not an abiguda. The language it’s mainly used for is also called Nóläm (it’s unknown whether the…
Noongar (Nyungaa-wangka) Noongar or Nyungar is an Australian language of the Nyungar group of the Pama-Nyungan language family with only a few fluent speakers. It was once spoken in the south-western part of Western Australia between the area north of Perth and the south coast eastern of Albany. Most of Nyungar-speaking peoble live in the…
Norn (Norroena) Norn was a North Germanic language spoken in in Shetland (Hjatland), Orkney and Caithness in mainland Scotland until the 18th or 19th centuries. Norn descended from Old Norse and was brought to Scotland and the islands of the North Atlantic by settlers from western parts of Norway from about 800 AD. The closet…
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