Khitan scripts Origin The Khitan people, who dominated a large chunk of Manchuria between 916 and 1125 AD, used two different scripts – the "large script", which came into use in about 920 AD, the "small script", which was reputedly created in about 925 AD by the Khitan scholar Diela, who was inspired by the…
Khazarian Rovas Khazarian is thought to be a descendent of the Proto-Rovas script, which was used to the east of the Aral Sea between about the 1st and 6th centuries AD, when the tribes who were using it, including the Avars, Khazars and Ogurs, started to move into the Carpathian Basin. That process took until…
Khayaro-Hagoran The Khayaro-Hagoran alphabet was created by David Hunt to write a constructed language he created also called Khayaro-Hagoran. The language has somewhat of an Arabian and Indian feel, and the alphabet is made to be written with a brush or calligraphy pen. Internal history Khayaro-Hagoran is the lingua franca of the lands East…
Kharosthi alphabet Origin The Kharosthi alphabet was invented sometime during the 3rd century BC and was possibly derived from the Aramaic alphabet. It was widely used in northwest India and central Asia until the 4th century AD. Unlike the Brahmi script, which was invented at around the same time and spawned many of the modern…
Khanty (Ханты) Khanty is a member of the Ob Ugric branch of the Finno-Ugric language family and is spoken by about 13,000 people in the Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs, and also in the Alexandrovsky and Kargosoksky Districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia. Khanty is also known as Xanty or Ostyak. Khanty was written with…
h1>Khakas (Хакас тілі / Khakas tîlî) Khakas is a Turkic language with about 60,000 speakers mainly in the southern Siberian Khakas Republic or Khakassia in the Russian Federation. There are a number of different dialects of Khakas, named after different tribes: Sagay, Kacha, Koybal, Beltir and Kyzyl, and Khakas speakers call themselves Tadar (Tatar), and…
Khahabran The Khahabran alphabet was created by David Hunt (kennymimi@bellsouth.net) in order to write Makharian, a constructed language inspired by Latin and Turkish. The Eastern feel of the alphabet is meant to be reminiscent of the Byzantine Empire where David’s own Makhar Empire is based. Internal history The language is a branch of the Makharian…
Ket Ket is the last surviving member of the Yenisei family of languages and is spoken by about 550 people along the Yenisei River and its tributaries in Central Siberia. Ket is also known as Yenisei-Ostiak and Ostyganna qa’ and is related to Yugh or Yug, which died in the 1970s, and Pumpokol, Arin and…
Keno Keno is an alternative alphabet for English created by DJ in 2002. His initial concept was to create an alphabet that only graffiti writers could read, so you could write a tag or something on a wall and the only those people who knew the alphabet could read it. As a result, he…
Keltic The Keltic alphabet was invented by David Kelley as an alternative alphabet for English. It was modelled on the Devanagari alphabet, with influence from the Korean alphabet. There are a number of different ways of writing English with Keltic. The main difference lies in the representation of vowels and diphthongs. The version below…
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