Mauritian Creole (Kreol Morisien) Mauritian Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by about 1.2 million people in Mauritius, where it is used as the lingua franca. Creole tends to be spoken in homes and informal situations, while French is used in work places, and French and English are used in schools and formal situations.…
Mayan script Origin The Mayan civilisation lasted from about 500 BC to 1200 AD, with a classical period from 300-900 AD. The earliest known writing in the Mayan script dates from about 250 BC, but the script is thought to have developed at an earlier date. Recent archeological finds indicate that the Mayan civilisation started…
Mende syllabary The Mende syllabary was invented in 1921 by Kisimi Kamara (ca. 1890-1962) of Sierra Leone. Seeing how the British managed to take over his country, Kisimi concluded that their power was partly a result of their literacy. He decided to give his own people that ability. Kisimi claimed he was inspired in a…
Modern English Runic A phonetic alphabet created by John D. Higgins This alphabet began with an attempt to create a phonetic system using only Latin, Old English, and Middle English letters. Every letter from all the past incarnations of English, except the runic letter wynn, was represented in this system. The “alpha version” of…
Meriam Mir Meriam Mir is a Papuan language spoken by about 2,000 people on the Torres Strait Islands of Erub, Ugar and Mer between Papua New Guinea and the mainland of Australian. Some linguists classify Miriam Mir as a member of the Eastern Trans-Fly language family of Trans-New Guinea, but others think it’s not related…
Meroïtic alphabet Origin The Meroïtic alphabet was derived from ancient Egyptian writing sometime during the 4th century BC in around 315 BC. A cursive form developed in 185 BC and the alphabet was used until about 440 AD. The alphabet was deciphered by the British Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith in 1909. Notable features There are…
Mesa alphabets The Mesa Polyglot alphabet This alphabet was invented by Juan Mesa (marcos33143@peoplepc.com) and was designed as an easy-to-learn and simple-to-use alternative international alphabet. The lowercase letters are just smaller versions of the uppercase ones. Juan has also devised a word game using the Mesa Polyglot alphabet. The Mesa Analog alphabet This alphabet was…
Messerussian The Messerussian alphabet was created by Devin Lester and was modelled on the Tengwar, Latin and Devanagari alphabets. He also invented a language with the same name which is based on a mixture of Slavic, Ural-altaic and Turkic languages. Orignally Messerussian was intended as a language for Devin and three others to replace…
Miami (Myaamia) Miami or Miami-Illinois is a member of the Algic branch of the Algonquian family. It was once spoken in parts of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio, and in parts of Oklahoma until the 1962. Since the 1990s efforts have been made, particularly by the Myaamia Project at the Miami University in Ohio, to…
Midlander alphabet Origin Midlander is a phonetic alphabet created by Erik Ruser for use in a series of fantasy novels currently being written by his friend Eric Vargo. The alphabet was created for a language by the same name which is currently under development by Eric, but it can also be used to approximate…
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