Gargish

Gargish alphabet    Origin The Gargish alphabet was created by Herman Miller and is used to write Gargish or gargl, the language of the Gargoyle race in the Ultima Online computer game series from Origin. The alphabet first appeared in Ultima VI. Druidic or Britannian Runes are also used in Ultima Online on maps and…

Ganda

Ganda (LùGáànda) Ganda or Luganda is a member of the Bantu branch of Niger-Congo languages. Around 3 million Baganda people, who live mainly in the Buganda region of Uganda, speak the language. Ganda is also widely used elsewhere in Uganda as a second language. The name Uganda is the Swahili version of Baganda. Ganda was…

Galician

Galician (Galego) Galician is a Romance language spoken by about 3 million people in Galicia, in the north-west corner of Spain. Galician is more or less mutually intelligible with Portuguese but uses Spanish spelling conventions. In fact, whether Galician and Portuguese are separate languages or dialects of the same language, is a question that has…

Galdwin

Galdwin    The Galdwin alphabet was invented by Colton Gideons to right his conlang Eloxem. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: right to left in horizontal lines Used to write: Galdwin, a language invented by Colton Gideons The first and last letters of every word are Gorjel (Gorjel are the big…

Gagauz

Gagauz (Gagauz dili / Гагаузча) Gagauz is a Turkic language spoken by about 150,000 people in Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Kazakhstan. Gagauz was originally written with a version of the Greek alphabet. In 1957 the Cyrillic alphabet was adopted in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and a version of the Latin alphabet based…

Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) Scottish Gaelic is spoken by about 60,000 people in Scotland (Alba), mainly in the Highlands (a’ Ghaidhealtachd) and in the Western Isles (Na h-Eileanan an Iar), but also in Glasgow (Glaschu), Edinburgh (Dùn Eideann) and Inverness (Inbhir Nis). There are also small Gaelic-speaking communities in Canada, particularly in Nova Scotia (Alba Nuadh)…

Gadaba

Gadaba Gadaba or Gutub is a Mundari language spoken by the Gadaba, a Scheduled Tribe living in the Agency Area of north coastal Andhra Pradesh. They call themselves ‘Mogililu’ or ‘Modililu’ in their own dialect in the Srikakulam District. The Gadaba were formerly employed as palanquin-bearers. This tribe owes its name to the fact that…

Frisian

Frisian (Frysk/Friisk/Seeltersk) Frisian is a group of West Germanic languages spoken in Germany and the Netherlands. There are three main varieties of Frisian: West Frisian which is spoken by about 450,000 people in the Netherlands; North Frisian a collection of nine different dialects spoken in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) by about 8,000 people, and Sater Frisian with…

Ga

Ga (Gã) Ga is a member of the Kwa branch of Niger-Congo languages. It is spoken in Ghana by about 600,000 people, particular in the southeast of the country around the capital, Accra. Christian Jacobsen Protten, the son of a Danish soldier and an African woman, devised a way of writing Ga with the Latin…

Futurama

Futurama Alien Alphabet     The Futurama Alien Alphabet appears in Matt Groening’s animated series Futurama. It is used mainly to write signs which appear in the background of some scenes and which are often in-jokes. Buy Futurama DVDs from: Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Links Free Futurama fonts http://www.leelazone.com.ar/fonts/ Much Ado About Futurama – a fan site…