Friulian (furlan/marilenghe) Friulian is a Romance language with about 526,000 speakers in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-east Italy. There are Friulian speakers in the provinces of province of Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia and Trieste. Friulian is also know as eastern Ladin and is closely related to Ladin. Until the 1960s, the Friulian-speaking areas were very…
French (français) French is a Romance language spoken by about 265 million people in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, the USA, Lebanon, French Guiana, north, west and central Africa, Madagascar, a number of islands in the Indian Ocean, Haiti and other Caribbean islands, Indochina, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides and the French Pacific Territories.…
Fraser alphabet Origin The Fraser alphabet was devised in around 1915 by James Ostram Fraser, a missionary who lived and worked with the Lisu people in China from 1910 to 1949. During his time in China, Fraser learnt to speak Chinese and Lisu and produced a Lisu translation of the New Testament using his alphabet.…
Benjamin Franklin’s Phonetic Alphabet Benjamin Franklin took great interest in the promotion of spelling reform. While living in London in 1768 he wrote A Scheme for a new Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling in which he proposed a fairly accurate phonetic system for spelling English. The alphabet was published in 1779 in Franklin’s…
Franaderoan/Saconian The Franaderoan or Saconian alphabet is the creation of Alain Lemaire. He started developing it in 1991, when he had an great interest in the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, upon which the alphabet is based. In 1995 Alain started to work on a language to go with his alphabet, soon abandonded his alphabet…
Franabudiga Franabudiga is an alternative way of writing French invented by François BOULLION, who was inspired by the scripts of Northern India, especially Devanagari, and who found the idea of representing both the consonant and its vowel together in the same symbol mind-blowing. Notable features Type of writing system: Franabudiga is technically an abudiga,…
Fontok Fontok is a kind of shorthand invented by Ian James and inspired by the calligraphic style of China and Japan called wild cursive (k’uang tsao). Mongolian was also an influence. It is in essence a structured scribbling, with phonemes assigned to particular movements of the pen. The name comes from the Thai word…
Fonic The Fonic or fonime alphabet appears in the video game series “Tales of the Abyss” (テイルズ オブ ジ アビス), and is used mainly for decorative purposes to write English. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines Used to write: English Fonic alphabet Sample text Translation All human…
Folkspraak Folkspraak (FS) is an International Auxiliary Language that is currently in development. It is intended to serve as a lingua-franca for communication with speakers of Germanic languages and it is based on features common to the major modern Germanic languages. The project is intended to be a co-operative and democratic effort by a group…
Flametext Flametext, or Hzung Buhzäng (which means: “that which is written by fire”) was created in September 2006 by Isac Henningsson to write the conlang Hzia Hzängbi (Fire’s tongue) which was born just a few months before the alphabet. Both Flametext and Fire’s tongue are designed to look like some sort of Asian, but…
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