Kurdish (Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди) Kurdish is a member of the Western Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. Approximately 26 million people speak Kurdish in Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Kazakstan and Afghanistan Kurdish began to appear in writing in a version of the Persian alphabet during the 7th century AD.…
Kutchi (કચ્છી / ڪڇّي) Kutchi is an Indo-Aryan language with about 866,000 speakers mainly in India in the Kutch region of Gujarat, and also in Sindh in Pakistan. There are also some Kutchi speakers in Trinidad and Tobago. Kutchi is also known as Cutchi, Kutchhi or Kachchhi and is related to Sindhi and Gujarati. It…
Kven (Kainun kieli) Kven is spoken in northern Norway by 2,000-8,000 people. It is a member of the Balti-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric language family and is closely related to Finnish, particularly the Peräpohjola dialects. In 2005 it received the status of a minority language under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Native…
Kwakiutl (Kwak’wala) Kwakiutl is a Northern Wakashan language spoken by about 200 people at the north end of Vancouver Island and adjacent areas on the mainland. They call themselves Kwakwaka’wakw, (lit. ‘the people who speak the language Kwak’wala’). Most of the Kwakiutl speakers are elderly and the language is used mainly for public speaking and…
Ladino (djudeo-espanyol/ג’ודיאו-איספאנייול) Ladino, Judezmo or Judeo-Spanish is a language derived from medieval Castilian Spanish. It is spoken by the descendants of the Sefardim or Sephardim, Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. There are currently about 100,000 speakers of Ladino in Israel, 8,000 in Turkey, 1,000 in Greece, and several hundred in the USA.…
Laidrin alphabet Laidrin is an alphabet and language invented Daniel Rojas from Belgium. The Laidrin language is based on French, Latin, Spanish, Dutch, English and Tagalog, and the Laidrin alphabet was partially based on Runic alphabets. Sample text Handwritten version Translation All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are…
Lak (Лакку маз) Lak belongs to the Nachsko-Daghestan branch of North Caucasian languages and is spoken by about 100,000 speakers mainly in the Russian republic of Dagestan. There are also speakers of Lak in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Lak is closely related to Dargwa. Lak was written with the…
Lam-Lammarok Alphabet The Lam-Lammarok Alphabet was invented by Simon Halfdan Hvilshøj Andersen in December 2005. His first drafts were of a writing highly inspired by the Fuþark runes for the shape and Tolkien’s Tengwar for the system of stems and bows, as a matter of fact, the only letter that remained from those drafts…
Lanquanese and Lamezzian Lanquanese /ˌlaŋ.kwaˈne.ze/ is a conlang devised by Anon with a structure based on French and looks and sounds based on Italian. Once he had created the language he started producing documents and literature, such as Lanquanese-English and English-Lanquanese dictionaries, Lanquanese in Three Months, excerpts from the Bible, the Lanquanese national anthem…
Lanna alphabet (Tua Mueang) The Lanna script is a descendant of the Old Mon script like the Lao religious scripts and Burmese script. It was used to write the Lanna language (also called Northern Thai or Kam Muang – คำเมือง). It was used during the time of the Lanna kingdom, founded in 1259 and…
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