The Hermit Runes The Hermit Runes were invented by Ajitesh as an alternative alphabet for English. Notable Features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines. Used to write: English and other languages written with the Latin alphabet A dash can be used to indicate uppercase. Dots and…
Herero (otjiHerero) Herero is a Bantu language with around 133,000 speakers, who are known as Ovaherero, in parts of Namibia and Bostwana. It’s closely related to Himba and Tjimba. Since the 1960s, efforts have been made to standardise the spelling of Herero and other Bantu languages. Herero alphabet (oalfabeta) and pronunciation Information compiled by Wolfram…
Herami Herami was created by Hermes Saucedo, who likes to create alphabets in his free time. This one in particular was recently rescued from his old sketchbooks, and he decided to digitise it after a little “cleanup”. After studying Tengwar by Tolkien and Old English alphabets (including Runic alphabets), he began to create something similar…
Heptal Heptal is an alternative alphabet for English created by Katie Molnar. Its name (derived from the Greek word for “seven”) refers both to the fact that it was originally designed to be rendered on seven segment displays and to the fact that it took seven years to develop it to its present, stable…
Helian The Helian alphabet was invented by Michael Evans. It is the common writing of the fictional megacity called Helios which Michael created for a video game of the same name that he hopes to finish in the future after he finishes college. He based Helian on the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, and…
Hebrew The earliest Hebrew script was derived from a Phoenician script. The modern Hebrew script was developed from a script known as Proto-Hebrew/Early Aramaic. The earliest known writing in Hebrew dates from the 11th century BC. Hebrew is a member of the Canaanite group of Semitic languages. It was the language of the early Jews,…
Hebreísmo Hebreísmo was created by Crawford J. Bennett, Jr. to write Castilian Spanish with Hebrew Letters. The Hebreísmo letters are modified for a handwritten alphabet wherein each letter fits into a “square,” that is each letter takes up relatively the same amount of space on a page as any other letter would. However, Castilian orthography…
Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) Hawaiian is an Austronesian language spoken by about 8,000 people on the Hawaiian islands. Hawaiian first appeared in writing in the early 19th century in a version of the Latin alphabet developed by missionaries, who started to visit the Hawaiian islands from 1820 onwards. Literacy among the Hawaiian people was widespread during…
Hausa (حَوْسَ) Hausa is a Chadic language with about 39 million speakers. It is spoken mainly in northern Nigeria and Niger, and also in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Germany, Ghana, Sudan and Togo. Since the beginning of the 17th century, Hausa has been written with a version of the Arabic script…
Harta Harta was invented as an alternative alphabet for Hungarian by Balázs Radványi. It is designed to write the language with as few letters as possible. Harta stands for the Hungarian Artifical Alphabet. Notable Features Type of writing system: abjad Direction of Writing: left to right in horizontal lines Used to write: Hungarian Vowels…
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