Languan

Languan    The Languan alphabet was created by Zach McVay during the summer of 2004 and was originally based on how the italicized Latin alphabet looks when read upside-down. The alphabet was used a great deal in writing various conlangs created by Zach, and has evolved a great deal from its original form. It is…

Lao

Lao alphabet    Origin After the unification of the Lao principalities (meuang) in the 14th century, the Lan Xang monarchs commissioned their scholars to create a new script to write the Lao language. The scholars probably modelled the alphabet on the the Old Khmer script, which was itself based on Mon scripts. Notable features Type…

Larenti

larenti tergush larenti tergush, or "Language (of) Valley", is a designed language created by Tiogshi Laj. Having been created by a native speaker of Canadian English, its vowels and consonant sounds are heavily influenced by the same. Its vocabulary has not been influenced by any language which Tiogshi knows. Its unique grammar and speaking style…

Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet Ancient Latin alphabet Roman alphabet for Latin Irish uncial alphabet Old English alphabet Modern Latin alphabet Accented letters & special characters Languages written with the Latin alphabet Ancient Latin alphabet The earliest known inscriptions in the Latin alphabet date from the 6th century BC. It was adapted from the Etruscan alphabet during the…

Latin language

Latin language (Lingua Latina) In the 5th century BC, Latin was just one of many Italic languages spoken in central Italy. Latin was the language of the area known as Latium (modern Lazio), and Rome was one of the towns of Latium. The earliest known inscriptions in Latin date from the 6th century BC and…

Latvian

Latvian (latviešu valoda) Latvian is a Baltic language related to Lithuanian and Old Prussian with about 1.4 million speakers in Latvia. There are also Latvian speakers in the USA, Russia, Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK, Sweden, Lithuania, Ukraine, Estonia, Brazil and Belarus. The first publication to be printed in Latvian was a catechism which appeared…

Laz

Laz (ლაზური ნენა/Lazuri nena) Laz is a South Caucasian language with about 33,000 speakers around the Black Sea, mainly in the northeast of Turkey, but also in Georgia. Laz is closely related to Mingrelian, and though the two languages are not mutually intelligible, they are considered by some as dialects of a single language known…

Lebanese

Lebanese Arabic (el libnénïet) Lebanese Arabic or Lebanese is a dialect of Levantine Arabic, though some people consider it a language in its own right. It is spoken mainly in Lebanon by about 4 million people, and includes some vocabulary comes from Aramaic, Greek, French, and Turkish. Lebanese is rarely written, except in some novels…

Lhemvrin

Lhemvrin eicrýs    Lhemvrin eicrýs (literally Lembrin writing) was invented by Sander Dieleman to write Lembrin, a constructed language serving as ceremonial language for Lemuria, a micronation. Lhemvrin eicrýs was originally an adaptation of another conscript, called Lemurian vulgar, invented by Sander in 2004. Over the course of two years Lhemvrin eicrýs gradually moved away…

Lepcha

Lepcha (Róng) script    Origin According to Lepcha tradition, the Lepcha script was invented by the Lepcha scholar Thikúng Men Salóng sometime during the 17th century. The inventor of the script was probably inspired by Buddhist missionaries. Another theory is that the script developed during the early years of the 18th century. Today the Lepcha…