Këble The Këble alphabet was invented by Cristiano Silva Júnior (a.k.a. Kris Bünny) to write his conlang by the same name. With a few adaptations, it can also be used to write Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, Japanese and French. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal…
Kazakh (Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى) Kazakh or Qazaq is a Turkic language spoken in Kazakhstan, Russia and China by about 8 million people. Kazakh was first written with the Arabic script during the 19th century when a number of poets, educated in Islamic schools, incited revolt against Russia. Russia’s response was to set…
Kayah Li Kayah or Kayah Li is a member of Karen branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken by about 210,000 people in the Kayah and Karen states of Burma (Myanmar). The language and people who speak it are also known as Western Kayah, Karenni, Karennyi, Red Karen, Yang Daeng or Karieng…
Kavaka o Fuvupo The Kavaka o Fuvupo (literally the “Elders’ Script”) was invented by David Peterson and is used to write the Kamakawi language. It is a complex script which comprises a syllabary plus several subsystems involving pictograms, logograms, ideograms and other mixed glyphs. Internal History and Usage The full writing system developed over…
Kashubian (kaszëbsczi jãzëk) Kashubian is a member of the West Slavic group of Slavic languages with about 200,000 speakers and used as an everyday language by about 53,000 people. Most Kashubian speakers live in north central Poland in the region of Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Oder…
Kashmiri (कॉशुर / كٲشُر) Kashmiri or Koshur is an Indo-Aryan language with about 4.5 million speakers in India, Pakistan and the UK. The Kashmiri alphabet was adopted from the Urdu version of the Arabic script. Kashmiri first appeared in writing during the 8th century AD in the Sharda alphabet. After the arrival of Islam in…
Karmeli alphabet The Karmeli alphabet is an alternative way to write modern and classical Hebrew based on the Latin alphabet and developed by Michael Avinor of Haifa, Israel. The Karmeli alphabet can also be used to write English and German. Karmeli alphabet Sample text in Karmeli Translation By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ eastward…
Karelian (Karjalan kieli) Karelian is a Finno-Ugric language spoken by about 118,000 people mainly in the Russian Republic of Karelia, and also in Finland. Karelian is official considered a dialect of Finnish in Karelia, though there are moves to have it recognised as a second language. East Karelian dialects have little mutual intelligibility with Finnish.…
Karamojong (ŋaKarimojoŋ / ŋaKaramojoŋ) ŋaKarimojoŋ is a Nilotic language of the Nilo-Saharan language family spoken by at least 370,000 people in Uganda – the ŋiKarimojoŋ (or ŋiKaramojoŋ) people. The name approximates to “the old men sat down”, dating from a time of migration 300 or more years ago when this group refused to travel further…
Karakalpak (Қарақалпақ тили / Qaraqalpaq tili) Karakalpak is a member of the Kypchak branch of Turkic languages. It is spoken by about 412,000 people in the Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic in Uzbekistan, where the language has official status. There are some Karakalpak speakers in Afghanistan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey as well. Karakalpak is most closely related to…
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