North Sámi (davvisámegiella/sámegiella) North Sámi or North Sámi is a Western Sámi language spoken by about 15-25,000 people in Norway, Sweden and Finland. North Sámi was first documented in a grammar and dictionaries published in the mid-18th century by Knud Leem. The current orthography for North Sámi developed from the spelling system developed by Rasmus…
Norwegian (Norsk) Norwegian is a North Germanic language with around 5 million speakers in mainly in Norway. There are also some speakers of Norwegian in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the UK, Spain, Canada and the USA. Early Norwegian literature, mainly poetry and historical prose, was written in West Norse and flourished between the 9th and the…
Novial (Nov International Auxiliari Lingue) Novial is an international auxiliary language created by Otto Jespersen, a linguist from Denmark. Jespersen recogised a need for an international auxiliary language and thought there were many problems with Esperanto. With Novial he tried to cure those problems. He first published details of Novial in 1928 in his book…
Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa) Northern Sotho is one of the official languages of South Africa and is a member of the Bantu/Nguni family of languages. It is spoken by about 4.2 million people in the South African provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga. Northern Sotho is referred to as Pedi or Sepedi in South…
Nuer (Naadh) Nuer is a member of the Western Nilotic group of the Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in southern Sudan and western Ethiopia by about 800,000 people. Nuer is written with a version of the Latin alphabet using an orthography adopted at the Rejaf Language Conference in 1928 which has been modified to some extent by…
Nüshu (女书) Nüshu is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in Jiangyong Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The women were forbidden formal education for many centuries and developed the Nüshu script in order to communicate with one another. They embroidered the script into cloth and wrote it in books and on paper fans.…
Nuu-Chah-Nulth (Nuučaan̓uł / T’aat’aaqsapa) Nuu-Chah-Nulth is a southern Wakashan language spoken by about 150-200 people on the Northwest coast of British Columbia in Canada. The language is more commonly known as Nootka, an Anglicised version of Nu-chah-nulth or Nuuchahnulth, which means “along the mountains” and is prefered by those who speak it. Nu-chah-nulth is spoken…
Ainu Nuye (애누이닥 누여) Ainu Nuye is a method of writing Ainu using Korean hangul devised by Michael W. Ryan. He sees the current script for writing the Ainu language (modified Katakana) as a terrible writing system. He took (one of/) East Asia’s only alphabets, and the one which supports final sounds, and adapted it…
Obúka lún Êkimyú Simon Halfdan Hvilshøj Andersen created Obúka lún Êkimyú in February 2005 as the precussor for both the JSEA and the Atemayar. Internal history The Obúka lún Êkimyú (or the King’s Letters) is the native writing system of the region of the present city of Ogedemarra in the Aârish State Minustar on…
Interlingue-Occidental Interlingue is an international auxiliary language developed by Edgar von Wahl, who published details of the language in his magazine Kosmoglott in Reval (which is now Tallinn, in Estonia) in 1922. In 1929, von Wahl’s magazine was renamed Cosmoglotta and was published entirely in his language. The language was originally called Occidental, as its…
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