Mongolian (монгол) Mongolian is an Altaic language spoken by approximately 5 million people in Mongolia, China, Afghanistan and Russia. There are a number of closely related varieties of Mongolian: Khalkha or Halha, the national language of Mongolia, and Oirat, Chahar and Ordos, which are spoken mainly in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China. Other…
Montagnais (Innu-Aimun) Montagnais or Montagnais Innu is an Algonquian language spoken in Labrador and Quebec in Canada by about 9,000 people, 3,000 of whom are monolingual. The rest are bilingual in Montagnais and English or Montagnais and French. The name Montagnais means “mountaineer” in French. They call themselves Innu, and are part of the same…
Moon alphabet Origin The Moon alphabet was invented by Dr. William Moon (1818-1894). Dr Moon lost his sight completely at the age of 21 after being partially sighted throughout his childhood. He learnt all the embossed reading systems available at the time but found them unsatisfactory so invented his own system. He brought out his…
Morda alphabet Origin The Morda alphabet was invented by Kenny Austin (nfcdoom@roadrunner.nf.net) in 2001, and was inspired by the work of J.R.R Tolkien. The word Morda means knowledge in Mordish, a language invented by Kenny Austin. The script and language are used in several games made with RPGMaker, but apart from that there is…
Moriori (Te Rē Mōriori) Moriori is the formerly extinct language of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohū in Moriori, Wharekauri in Maori), belonging to New Zealand, and is at the moment in the process of being revived by some of the descendants of the Moriori people. The name of the language (and the people) is variously spelled…
Morse Code (– — •-• ••• • -•-• — -•• •) Morse Code was invented by Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), a painter and founder of the National Academy of Design. He conceived the basic idea of an electromagnetic telegraph in 1832, and produced the first working telegraph set in 1836. This made transmission possible…
Middle Persian scripts Middle Persian (Pahlavi) Parthian Psalter Middle Persian (Pahlavi) The Middle Persian script developed from the Aramaic script and became the official script of the Sassanian empire (224-651 AD). It changed little during the time it was in use, but around the 5th century AD, it spawned a number of new scripts, including…
Minimal Stacking alphabet The Minimal Stacking alphabet was invented by David Conant as an alternative alphabet for English. He use it for notes, grocery lists, experimentation, and mostly for fun. The idea behind creating a ‘minimal’ alphabet was to represent each letter of the regular English alphabet with the simplest marking possible while still being…
Modern Standard Alphabet ( ) The Modern Standard Alphabet was invented by John Allen as an alternative way to write Arabic, Dari and Pashto. It could also be used to write other Semitic and Indo-European languages. It was inspired by the Interbet and is based on the Latin alphabet, with some Cyrillic and Greek letters.…
Macedonian (македонски) Macedonian is part of a southern Slavic dialect continuum which includes Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian, and has a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Bulgarian, and to a lesser extent with Serbian. Before 1945 Macedonian was generally classified as a variety of Bulgarian. The varieties of southern Slavic spoken in what…
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