Koryak (Нымылан/Nymylan) Koryak is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken by about 4,000 people in northeastern Siberia, mainly in the Koryak Autonomous Region in northern part of the Kamchatka peninsula, and an the adjoining mainland from the Taigonos Peninsula to the Bering Sea. Koryak is closely related to Chukchi, and like the Chukchi, the Koryaks are traditionally…
Kotia Kotia is spoken by the Kotia, a scheduled tribe who live mainly in the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh in India. According to the 1991 census the Kotia population is 41,591. Kotia is an Indo-Aryan language related to Oriya, and alternative names for the language include Adivasi Oriya, Kotia Oriya, Kotiya and Tribal Oriya…
Kovrit Kovrit is an adaptation of the Hebrew alphabet for writing Korean devised by Bae Jun. Everytime he learns a new scrpt, he attempts to modify it to write Korean. It helps him to memorize new writing systems. He has also devised methods of writing Korean with the Cyrillic (Korillic), Greek (Kellinica) and Arabic…
Koya Koya is a Dravidian language spoken by about 300,000 people in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Oryssa. The language is also known as Kavor, Kaya, Koa, Koi, Koi Gondi, Koitar, Koyato, Koyi and Raj Koya. The Koya claim their origin from the pandavas of the epic Mahabharata, especially the lord Bhima. When…
Kpelle syllabary Origin The Kpelle syllabary was invented during the 1930s by Chief Gbili of Sanoyea, Liberia. It was used to some extent by speakers of Kpelle in Liberia and Guinea during the 1930s and early 1940s but never achieved popular acceptance. Today Kpelle is usually written with a version of the Latin alphabet.…
Cape Verdean Creole (Kriol) Cape Verdean Creole is a creole based on Portuguese and African languages which is spoken by about 920,000 people mainly in Cape Verde. It is the first language of most Cape Verdeans, and is spoken by their descendents in quite a number of other countries such as Angola, Brazil, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal…
Krul Krul is the creation of Delano Cuzzucoli, who wanted to see if he could construct an entire alphabet using a single symbol (in this case, a “curl”) which would be combined with flipping and adding dots and lines to produce a wide variety of possible letter forms. It is inspired somewhat by the…
Kryptonian Kryptonian or Kryptonese is language or the fictional planet Krypton, birthplace of Superman. The language appears in writing in the Superman comics at first as random squiggles. Then during the 1970s E. Nelson Bridwell created an alphabet of 118 letters, Kryptonese, from the squiggles. In 2000 DC Comics introduced a transliteration alphabet containing…
Kumyk (Къумукъ тил / Qumuq til) Kumyk is a member of the Kypchak branch of Turkic languages. It is spoken by about 200,000 people in the Dagestan republic of Russian Federation. The language is also known as Qumuq, Kumuk, Kumuklar or Kumyki. Until 1928, Kumyk was written with the Arabic alphabet. Between 1928 and 1938, it…
Kupia Kupia is Indo-Ayran language related to Oriya and spoken by about 6,600 Valmiki people in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The Valmiki are a tribal group, concentrated in the Agency Area of Hyderabad, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, East Godavari and Visakhapatnam districts. Valmika or Valmiki is a name assumed by the Boyas and Paidis, who…
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