Klallam (Nəxʷsƛʼayʼəmúcən) Klallam is a member of the Salishan or Salish family of languages and is once spoken on the north shore of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula in the USA, and also at Becher Bay on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Today only five people speak Klallam, though efforts are being made to revive the…
Kivani Kivani is an alphabet invented by Stuart Hamilton to write his conlang, Kivani. He invented both mainly for fun and was inspired by Tolkien’s invented languages and alphabets. He has also been thinking about writing book featuring his language and alphabet. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to…
Kitonyo Kitonyo was creatied by DJ Hipsher in 2004. It is a cypher for English. He was inspired by reading the Lord of the Rings to create an alphabet that looked old and could be something you would find in an ancient manuscript or book. Originally he wrote the alphabet by hand using a…
Kiserdő alphabet Kiserdő is an alternative alphabet for Hungarian devised by Dávid Katona, who uses to keep things, such as passwords, secret. He invented it for fun in a local forest – the name kiserdő means “little forest” in Hungarian. Kiserdő is based on the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, though some of the letters…
Kirundi (íkiRǔndi) Kirundi or Rundi is a Bantu language with about 4.5 million speakers, most of whom live in Burundi. There are also some speakers of Kirundi in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Congo-Kinshasa. Kirundi is closely related to more or less mutually intelligible with Kinyarwanda. There has been a standardised spelling system for Kirundi since…
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyz tili / Кыргыз тили / قىرعىز تىلى) Kyrgyz or Kirghiz is a Turkic language with about 4.5 million speakers mainly in Kyrghyzstan, and also in China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Russia. It is official language in Kyrgyzstan, together with Russian, is closely related to Altay and is mutually intelligible with Kazakh. Kyrgyz…
Kinyarwanda (Ikinyarwanda) Kinyarwanda is a Bantu language spoken with about 7 million speakers who live mainly in Rwanda, where it is the national language along with French and English, and also in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Kinyarwanda is closley related to Kirundi, which is spoken in Burundi and Tanzania. A standardised spelling…
Kildin Sámi (Кӣллт са̄мь кӣлл) Kildin Sámi is an Eastern Sámi language spoken on the Kola peninsula of Russia by about 600 people. While the largest concentration of speakers is around Lovozero (Луяввьр), there are speakers of Kildin Sámi throughout the Kola peninsula. Although Kildin Sámi is the largest of the Eastern Sámi languages in…
Khwarshi (Инхиэс мицц) Khwarshi is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in parts of Dagestan in the Russian Federation by about 3,000 people. It is spoken in the Tsumadinsky, Kizilyurtovsky and Khasavyurtovsky districts. There are six dialects of the Khwarshi language: Upper- and Lower Inkhokwari Khwarshi, Kwantlada Khwarshi, Santlada Khwarshi, Khwayni Khwarshi and Khwarshi Proper. Cyrilic…
Khmer alphabet The Khmer alphabet is descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India by way of the Pallava script, which was used in southern India and South East Asia during the 5th and 6th Centuries AD. The oldest dated inscription in Khmer, found at Angkor Borei in Takev Province south of Phnom Penh,…
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