Erekett

Erekett-Aramansch The Erekett-Aramansch alphabet was invented by Minstrel Ayreon for use in her novel, The Way of the Shadow Blade. In the novel this alphabet is used mainly to write her invented language, Aramansch, as well as a number of others, and it can also be used to write German. Notable features Direction of writing:…

Enochian

Enochian alphabet     Origin The Enochian alphabet first appeared during the 16th century. The Court Astrologer and Magician, Dr. John Dee (1527-1608) and his associate, Sir Edward Kelly (1555-1597) claimed that the alphabet and the Enochian language was transmitted to them by angels. The alphabet is used in the practice of Enochian Magic on Enochian…

Engul

Engul: syllabic script for English    Engul is an alternate writing system for English invented by Colin Harrison and inspired mainly by Korean. The idea is to permit English to be written in syllabic blocks, while preserving an essentially alphabetic character set. Why? Because he believes that Hangul is possibly the smartest writing system ever…

Engrellic

Engreellic (Ɛŋrиlik) The Engreellic script was devised by Derick Pinto from Mumbai (Bombay) in India. The script is an alternative way of writing English using letters from the Roman, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets and the IPA. The script was developed by first identifying all the phonemes existing in the English language and then selecting a…

English Code

English Code    English Code is an alternative alphabet for English invented by Will Richards. It is intended to be used as a code for writing diaries and journals. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to write in horizontal lines Used to write: English English Code Sample text Translation All…

English

English English is a West Germanic language related to Dutch, Frisian and German with a significant amount of vocabulary from French, Latin, Greek and many other languages. Approximately 341 million people speak English as a native language and a further 267 million speak it as a second language in over 104 countries including the UK,…

Enganagri

Enganagri alphabet   The Enganagri alphabet was invented by David Kelley as an alternative alphabet for English. It was modelled on the Devanagari alphabet with influence from the Korean alphabet. There are a number of different ways of writing English with Enganagri. The main difference between them is in the representation of vowels and diphthongs.…

Enets

Enets (Онай базаан) Enets is a Samoyedic language spoken along the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia in the Russian Republic. The two dialects of Enets – Forest Enets (madu) and Tundra Enets (bai) – with considerable lexical differences between them. There are also a few speakers of Karastin Enets, which is a mixture…

Emurhergen

Emurhergen Emurhergen is an alternative alphabet for Tungusic / Manchu-Tungus languages invented by Gary Yao in 2011. It is modelled on the Manchu alphabet, and its name combines Emur, from the Emur river, near which most speakers of Tungusic languages live, and the word hergen, which means alphabet or script in Manchu. Notable features Type…

Empisava

Empisava Empisava was created by Joseph J. Barretto in 2006 in an attempt to create: a vertical script that distinguished between consonant and vowel forms without the use of diacritics; a writing system that indicated the grammatical relationships of words (or phrases) within a sentence; and a system that appended punctuation to the end of…