Holiland alphabet The Holiland alphabet was created by Pavel Konovolov. It evolved from a Hebrew-based script called Yegud that he devised in 1996. He uses it to write Russian and English. Notable features Type of script: vocalised abjad Direction of writing: left to write in horizontal lines. Used to write: Russian and English Holiland alphabet…
Pahawh Hmong alphabet Origin The Pahawh Hmong alphabet was invented in 1959 by Shong Lue Yang (), an illiterate Hmong farmer living in northern Laos close to the border with Vietnam. Shong Lue Yang believed that the alphabet was revealed to him by God, a belief shared by many among the Hmong. Shong Lue…
Hixkaryána About 550 people speak Hixkaryána, a member of the Southern Guiana of Carib languages, on the Nhamundá, Mapuera and Japatú rivers, tributaries of the Amazon in Brazil. One unusual feature of Hixkaryána is that it’s one of the few lanuguages that normally uses a Object Subject Verb word order, before it was first described…
Hittite Hittite was spoken north-central Anatolia (part of modern Turkey) and is generally classified as belonging to the Anatolian branch of Indo-European languages. Written records of Hittite date from between the 16th and 13th centuries BC, and it is the earliest Indo-European to appear in writing. Hittite was written with a cuneiform script adapted…
Hinukh (гьинузас мец) Hinukh is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken about 200 to 500 people in the Tsunta district of southwest Dagestan in the Russian Federation. The majority of Hinukh speakers live in the village of Genukh (ГЬино). Hinukh, which is also know as Hinux, Ginukh or Ginux, is closely related to Tsez and used…
Hindi (हिन्दी) Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language with about 487 million speakers. It is one of the official languages of India and is the main language used in the northern states of Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar, and is spoken in much of north and central…
Hiligaynon (Ilonggo) Hiligaynon is a member of the Visayan branch of the Austronesian language family with about 11 million speakers in Western Visayas in the Philippines, 7 million of whom speak is as a native language. Most of the speakers live in the provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental. There are also speakers in the…
High Ƕarian High Ƕarian was invented by Nathan Baciao to write his conlang of the same name, which he uses in his diary and other books. The letters are based on the Greek, Cyrillic, Old English and Latin alphabets. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal…
Avorentas HGV Avorentas HGV was designed by Attila Répai with the aim of creating an alphabet that is easy to memorise due to its small number of base signs (17). The letters can represent all the 46 sounds of Hungarian and his constructed language Avorenta without any digraphs or trigraphs. The shape of the…
Hexahue Hexahue was invented by Josh Cramer. He was inspired to come up with a unique alphabet that could substitute standard English writing for combinations of colours that were easily able to be distinguished. Hexahue uses only colour combinations of 100% brilliances, 100% absences, and 50% brilliance/absence of all colours, which is mid-gray. Hexahue…
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