Deseret alphabet Origin The Deseret alphabet was devised as an alternative to the Latin alphabet for writing the English language. It was developed during the 1850s at the University of Deseret, now the University of Utah, and was promoted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon or…
Delta Menurae The Delta Menurae alphabets were created over three boring afternoons in December 2006 by Charles Bellinger. They are for use in a half-developed sci-fi continuum. Internal history: The Delta Menurae system is a star system near the Ra system. It is so named because as seen from the Ra system, it is…
Delaware (Lenape/Unami) Delaware is an Algonquian language spoken mostly in Oklahoma, though historically it was spoken in the northeastern part of the USA, especially in New Jersey and Delaware. The language is almost extinct; only a few elders speak it, all of whom are over 90 years old. As with many Native American languages, many…
Delason Delason is the language of the fictional Mediterranean island of Salamon, the creation of Nizar Habash, a Palestinian computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland College Park. The phonology of Delason is a mixture of Spanish and Modern Hebrew and its vocabulary is drawn from about 20 mainly Indo-European and Semitic…
Deini The Deini Script was invented by Dana Nutter to write a conlang also called Deini. The Deini language is based on Germanic languages (mainly English and German), Slavic languages (mainly Russian), popular Romance languages, Newspeak, Nadsat, Sasxsek, Classical Latin, Classical Greek, and with small influences from other world languages. Notable features Deini is…
Dawan (Uab Meto) Dawan is an Austronesian language spoken by about 600,000 people mainly in the western part of Timor Island including the enclave of Oecusse (Oekusi), which is part of East Timor. The language is sometimes called Meto, Uab Atoni Pah Meto, Uab Pah Meto, Timor, Timorese, Timol, Timoreesch, Timoreezen, Dawan, Timor Dawan, or…
Davé The Davé alphabet was invented by Robert Holley as a way to write his Spanish-based conlang, Davesh. It could also be used to write English and Spanish, and perhaps other languages. The alphabet is written with a single horizontal line connecting all the letters and words, in a similar way to Devanagari. Words…
Daukin (И П Г П Г Ξ ‡ П П Ξ Т П Т П Ι ‡ Ξ Ξ) This writing system was created by Miguel Renart after an intense week of exams, when he finally returned his attention to developing something for a fictional setting he was working on with some friends. Although the setting is in Spanish, Daukin can be also used in English and German and probably also other…
Dari (درى) Dari is the the variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan, where it is one of the two official languages, along with Pashto, and is used as a lingua franca among the different language communities. Dari is also used as the medium of instruction in Afghan schools. About 5 million people speak Dari in…
Dargwa (дарган мез) Dargwa or Dargin is a North East Caucasian language with about 439,000 speakers, most of whom live in the Russian republic of Dagestan. There are also Dargwa speakers in the republics of Kalmykia, Khantia-Mansia and Chechnya, in other parts of the Russian Federation, and in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and…
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