Fishscales

Fishscales   Fishscales is a script invented by Gary Fisher, and further developed by Dale hill. Eventually it may find its way into use by an alien race in a distant galaxy, but for now Fishscales is a fun, alternative way of writing English. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left…

Finnish

Finnish (suomi) Finnish (suomi) is a Finno-Ugric language spoken by about 5 million people in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Canada and Russia. Finnish starting to appear in writing during the 16th century. The first piece of Finnish literature was a translation of the New Testament by Michael Agricola which was published in 1548. Until 1809…

Fingers

Fingers    The Fingers alphabet was invented by Simon Ager in 2009 as an alternative alphabet for English. It is losely based on the shapes used in British Sign Language (BSL) finger spelling. Notable Features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: normally left to right in horizontal lines, but can be written in…

Filipino

Filipino (wikang Filipino) Filipino is a prestige register of Tagalog that has been the national language of the Philippines since 1957. The Since 1978 it has also been used as the language of instruction in schools and universities throughout the Philippines, though English is widely used as well. The Filipino alphabet has under gone a…

Fijian

Fijian (Vakaviti) Fijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji (Viti) by about 320,000 people. There are also several thousand Fijian speakers in New Zealand. David Cargill (1809-1843), a scottish missionary and pioneer in the study of the Fijian Language, devised a way of writing Fijian with the Latin alphabet based…

Fenglish

Fenglish Fenglish is the creation of Hanbing Feng (hanbingfeng828@hotmail.com), a high school student in New York City. One of Hanbing’s hobbies is to invent secret ways to communicate and after many visits to this site, he was inspired to create Fenglish, which he modelled to some extent on the Manchu alphabet. Notable Features Can be…

Fence

Ngãxasrix    The Ngãxasrix (Fence Script) alphabet was created by Sean Panick to write his conlang Rãlin. It was inspired by and is meant to resemble medieval script. It is typically written in horizontal lines, left to right but is occasionally can be variably written in a clockwise spiral around the edge of the writing…

Faroese

Faroese (Føroyskt) Faroese is a North Germanic language with around 47,000 speakers in the Faroe Islands (Føroyar). Faroese is closely related to Icelandic and the dialects of western Norway, though as a result of the isolation, the Faroese language has a distinctive character of its own. The Faroe Islands were discovered in 825 AD by…

Falthari

Falthari The Falthari alphabet was invented in 2005 by Jonathan Diamond for use in a fantasy he was writing. Originally in the novel, the Falthari language was used for magic spells and incantations and considered a dead language. He became intrigued by the language, however, and soon began to develop it, along with its writing…

Falandril

Falandril    The Falandril alphabet (Avalandril Dgiribatu) was invented by Adam Trotter (adam[at]astrotter[dot]com) in 1987, since when the shapes of the letters have evolved considerably. Adam use his alphabet as a secret shorthand for taking sensitive notes or for transcribing poetry, mainly in Standard American English. He has found it flexible enough to record most…