Gupta The Gupta script, which is also known as the Gupta Brahmi Script or the Late Brahmi Script, was used for writing Sanskrit in the Gupta Empire, which existed from about 320 to 550 AD. It developed from the Ashokan Brahmi script, and developed into the Devanagari, Sharada and Siddham scripts Gupta inscriptions have been…
Gugadja/Kukatja Gugadja is part of the Western Desert Group of the Pama-Nyungan languages spoken by about 300 people in Balgo, Lake Gregory and Halls Creek in Western Australia. A number of school books and a dictionary have been published in Gugadja, though there is no standardised spelling system. Gugadja pronunciation Information on pronunciation compiled by…
Guaraní (Avañe’ẽ) Guaraní is a Tupí-Guarani language spoken by about 4.6 million people in Paraguay. There are also small communities of Guaraní speakers in Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina. Guaraní is one of the offical languages of Paraguay, along with Spanish, and started to appear in writing in the form of religious texts during the 18th…
Guadeloupean Creole (Gwadloupéyen) Guadeloupean Creole or Guadeloupean Creole French is spoken on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe by about 430,000 people. It is mainly French-Based, but also has some vocabulary from English, Bantu languages and Amerindian languages. The language is also known as Patwa, Patois or Kreyol. Guadeloupean Creole is more or less mutually intelligible…
Geup-Simhangul (GSH) Geup-Simhangul was invented by Kim Godgul as an alternative script for Korean created in December 2008. ‘Geup’ means rapid, hurry in Korean. ‘Sim’ means heart or center. GSH’s consonants are similar to Hangul consonants when they are used as initial consonants of GSH syllable blocks, but different elsewhere. Geup-Simhangul Sample text This…
Gryirhanli The Gryirhanli phonemic alphabet was created by Misha Volavka with no real function in mind other than to have a script of hers displayed on Omniglot. It is her second conscript, the first being kept a secret because it is used for personal notes, not that anyone would likely want to go through…
Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) Greenlandic is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken by about 57,000 people in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) and Denmark. There are three main dialects: West Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), East Greenlandic (Tunumiisut) and North Greenlandic (Inuktun). West Greenlandic is spoken by 54,500 people in Nuuk, Sisimiut and Kangerussuaq, is has been the official language of the Greenlandic autonomous…
Greek alphabet (Ελληνικό αλφάβητο) Origin The Greek alphabet has been in continuous use for the past 2,750 years or so since about 750 BC. It was developed from the Canaanite/Phoenician alphabet and the order and names of the letters are derived from Phoenician. The original Canaanite meanings of the letter names was lost when the…
Graph Script Graph Script was created by Nicholas Harvey, a visitor to omniglot.com. He created it because he wanted his own script to express the creative person that he is. To him, creating scripts is an art form. He strives to be different from everyone else, so he made a script that is read from…
Grantha alphabet Origin The Grantha alphabet is a descendent of the Brahmi alphabet and started to emerge during the 5th century AD. Most of the alphabets of southern India evolved from Grantha, and it also influenced the Sinhala and Thai alphabets. The Grantha alphabet has traditional been used by Tamil speakers to write Sanskrit…
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