Vietnamese (tiếng việt / 㗂越) Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language spoken by about 82 million people mainly in Vietnam. There are also Vietnamese speakers in the USA, China, Cambodia, France, Australia, Laos, Canada and a number of other countries. Vietnamese has been the official language of Vietnam since the country gained independence from France in…
Old European / Vinča / Danube script Origin These symbols have been found on many of the artefacts excavated from sites in south-east Europe, in particular from Vinča near Belgrade, but also in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, eastern Hungary, Moldova, southern Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia. The artefacts date from between the 7th and 4th millennia…
Vine alphabet The Vine alphabet was invented by Marshall Wildey in 2002 during a boring day at work. He was inspired by Mongolian in its vertical, continuous writing. Most of the consonants somewhat resemble the ones in the Latin alphabet. The name of the alphabet comes from its style which resembles a hanging vine. Notable…
Viozian language and alphabet The Viozian language and alphabet were created by Dirk Bakker from Groningen in the Netherlands when he was about ten years old (in 1989). Already fond of secret codes and nice scripts, he fantasized about devising a language of his own that nobody could understand. For the words he started…
Visible Speech Origins Visible Speech is a writing system invented in 1867 by Alexander Melville Bell, father of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Melville Bell was a teacher of the deaf and intended his writing system to help deaf students learn spoken language. Visible Speech was also the first notation system…
Visitor alphabet The Visitor alphabet appears in the 1983 sci-fi TV mini-series V created by Kenneth Johnson. The alphabet is used to write the language of the aliens in the series, who are known as Visitors. Different versions of the alphabet are used in different series of the show. Visitor alphabet (1984 version) Visitor…
Volapük Volapük ("World Language") was invented in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a German priest who lived in Baden. Schleyer claimed the idea for creating an international language was suggested to him by God in dream. His aim was to create a language which was “capable of expressing thought with the greatest clearness and accuracy”…
Vorizhaskh Vorizhaskh was invented for fun by Charlie Smith, to be used in a book he is writing about the “country” of origin. It is for use of any Slavic or Caucasian language, namely Georgian and Russian, and also can be used as an English code. In said book, the principality of Kamarynskaya is…
Võro (võro kiilʼ) Võro is part of the Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages and is spoken by about 70,000 people in Estonia. Officially it is considered a dialect of Estonian, but it has it’s own literary standard and speakers are seeking to have it recognised as a regional language of Estonia. The language went…
Votic (Vadjaa tšeeli) Votic or Votian is part of the Balto-Finnic subgroup of Finno-Ugric languages and is closely related to Estonian. It is spoken in Krakolye and Luzhitsy, two villages in the Kingisepp district of St. Petersburg, Russia, by about 20 people, all of whom are elderly. Efforts are currently being made to revive Votic…
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