Kara Hiragana (韓ひらがな) & Kara Katakana (カラカタカナ) Kara Hiragana were invented by Bae Jun and are additional symbols, based on Japanese Hiragana, used to write Korean. Since he started learning Japanese he has devised numerous pseudo-kana symbols just for fun. He used them as a secret code for keeping his diary for a while, but…
Kaqchikel (Kaqchikel Ch’ab’äl) Kaqchikel or Kaqchiquel is a Mayan language spoken in the Central Highlands of Guatemala by about half a million people. It is a member of the Quichean-Mamean branch of Mayan languages and is closely related to K’iche’ (Quiché) and Tz’utujil. The name of the language used to be written Cakchiquel or Cakchiquiel.…
Kapunuan Kapunuan was created by Joseph Barretto in 2006. He imagined a writing system inspired by trees and created by a people who revered them. The word kapunuan is Tagalog for a group of trees, but also means source or beginning. Notable Features Written in horizontal lines from left to right and top to…
Kapampangan Kapampangan is spoken mainly on the Philippine island of Luzon by about 2.4 million people. It is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family and is also known as Pampango, Capampangan, Pampangueño or Amanung Sisuan. Kapampangan was written with a version of the Baybayin alphabet before the arrival of the…
Kanuri Kanuri is a collection of dialects belonging to the Nilo-Saharan language family. There are about 4 million Kanuri speakers in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, and also by some people in Libya and Sudan. Kanuri is used as a local lingua franca along with Hausa and Arabic. It was written with a version of…
Kannada alphabet Origin The Kannada alphabet developed from the Kadamba and Cālukya scripts, descendents of Brahmi which were used between the 5th and 7th centuries AD. These scripts developed into the Old Kannada script, which by about 1500 had morphed into the Kannada and Telugu scripts. Under the influence of Christian missionary organizations, Kannada…
Kanadana (ᑲᓇᑕᐦᓇ) Kanadana is a method of writing Japanese using Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics devised by Simon Ager, creator of Omniglot. It was inspired by seeing the signatures of Inuit artists written vertically in a Japanese style. The name Kanadana combines the Japanese words 仮名 (かな kana), as in hiragana and katakana, the Japanese syllabaries, and…
Kammara Kammara is spoken in the scheduled and adjoining areas of Srikakulam,Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam East and West Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh, India. The Kammara people are also known as Konda Kammara or Ojas, their population is 45,010, according to the 2001 census, and in addition to their native language, many of them also speak Telugu.…
Kam (lix Gaeml) Kam is a Tai-Kadai language spoken by about 1.5 million people in Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi provinces of China. It is a member of the Kam-Sui branch of the Tai-Kadai language family, and is also known as Gam, or 侗语 (dòngyǔ) in Chinese. There are two mutually unintelligible dialects of Kam which…
Kalmyk (Хальмг келн) Kalmyk is a member of the Kalmyk-Oirat subgroup of Mongolic languages. It is spoken by about 500,000 people in Kalmykia in the Russian Federation between the Volga and Don rivers, and in Western China and in Western Mongolia. Kalmyk was first written with the Uyghur script in the 11th century. Then in…
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