Yaghnobi (yaɣnobī́ zivók / яғнобӣ зивок) Yaghnobi is a member of the Eastern Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian languages. It is spoken by about 12,500 in Tajikistan who originally lived in the Yaghnob valley in Zarafshan in the northwest of Tajikistan, but who were moved to Zafarobod in Sughd province in the 1990s. Some have since…
Xamtanga (ኃምታጛ) Xamtanga is a Central Cushitic language spoken by about 213,000 people in Ethiopia, mainly in the North Amhara region, the Avergele District and the Lasta and Waag zones. Xamtanga is also known as Chamta, Khamtanga, Xamta, Khamir or Agawinya. Xamtanga can be written with a version of the Ethiopic script. Ethiopic script for…
Uyghur (Уйғур / ئۇيغۇر) Uyghur is a Turkic language with about 10 million speakers mainly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, and also in Afghanistan, Australia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, the USA and Uzbekistan. Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon alphabet, a runiform script…
Uzbek (Ўзбек тили/O’zbek tili/أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی) Uzbek is a Turkic language with about 16.5 million speakers mainly in Uzbekistan. but also in Australia, China, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia), Turkmenistan, Ukraine and the USA. An early form of Uzbek, known as Chagatai (one of the sons of Genghis Khan) and written with the Arabic…
Vai syllabary The Vai syllabary was invented in about 1820 in Liberia by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, who was inspired by a dream to create a writing system for the Vai language. In 1854 a German philologist, S. W. Koelle, met Duwalu Bukele while researching the Vai langauge and was told that in Bukele’s dream…
Varang Kshiti alphabet Origin The Varang Kshiti or Warang Chiti alphabet was invented by community leader Lako Bodra as an alternative to the writing systems devised by Christian missionaries. He claims that the alphabet was invented in the 13th century by Dhawan Turi, and that it was rediscovered in a shamanistic vision and modernised…
Visual Binary Cube The Visual Binary (VB) Cube Alphabet was created by Graeme Kilshaw to empower people from every kind of background and educational standing. Visual Binary Cube enables the deaf to read lips more easily as VB is sorted according to the shape of the lips when making sounds. Visual Binary Cube enables the…
Venda (Tshivenḓa / Luvenḓa) Venda 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 a million people in the South African province of Limpopo, and by about 150,000 people in Zimbabwe. Venda alphabet A a B b (C c) D…
Venetian (vèneto) Venetian is a Romance language spoken by about 2 million people mainly in Venice and the surrounding area, and also in Trieste, Croatia, Slovenia, Mexico and Brazil. The language is more closely related to French and Spanish than it is to Italian. When Venice was an independent republic (between the 9th and 18th…
Veps (vepsän kel’) Veps is part of the Balto-Finnic group of Finno-Ugric languages and is spoken in Russia in the Republic of Karelia and the Vologda Oblast by about 6,000 people. It is closely related to Karelian and Finnish. There are three main Veps dialects: Northern or Äänis-Veps, which is spoken at Lake Onega; Central…
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