Cwaethra

Cwaethra    Cwaethra is a simple alternative script for English invented by Heather Bryan and based on a random doodle. It’s written in horizontal lines from left to right, and top to bottom, and the letters all connect with a central line. Punctuation is optional, and can be placed almost anywhere in the script Cwaethra…

Curvetic

Curvetic   Curvetic is an alternative alphabet for English invented by Simon Ager, the author of Omniglot, in June 2007. It is based on simple curved shapes, hence the name, and was influenced so some extent by the Thai alphabet, and also by Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic scripts such as Cree and Ojibwe. Notable Features Type…

Common Syllabics

Common Syllabics    Common Syllabics was created by Jonathon Grimes during the early 1990s to write the main language used in a role playing game: Common. Jonathon modelled Common Syllabics on the Cree syllabary and on the Devanagari alphabet. Notable features Written from left to right in horizontal lines Diacritics are added to the basic…

Cronam

Cronam    The Cronam alphabet was invented by Nathanael Hodge to write Lantyrian, a language used in a story he started but never completed. He has since gone on to develop it and the language for its own sake. Internal History This script derives ultimately from an earlier logographic script, symbols from which were borrowed…

Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatar (Qırımtatar tili/Къырымтатар тили) Crimean Tatar is a member of the Kypchak branch of Turkic languages. There are about 300,000 speakers of this language in Crimea, Central Asia, mainly in Uzbekistan, and also in Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria. Crimean Tatar (Qırımtatar tili, Qırımtatarca) is also known as Crimean (Qırım tili, Qırımca) or Crimean Turkish…

Creek

Creek (Mvskoke) Creek is a Muskogean language with about 4,700 speakers in the US states of Oklahoma and Florida. It is spoken by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The language is also known as Muskogee, Muscogee or Seminole. Creek first appeared in writing in 1736.…

Cree

Cree syllabary (ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ) Origin James Evans, a Wesleyan missionary working at Norway House in Hudson’s Bay, invented a syllabary for the Ojibwe language in about 1840. He had tried to produce a Latin-based orthography for Ojibwe, but eventually gave up and came up with a syllabary, based partly on shorthand. Evans’ syllabary for Ojibwe consisted…

Cpg

Chromaphonoglyphics (CPG) CPG was created by Richard Brodie, a retired computer programmer now involved in translating Middle English poetry. His goal has been to create a writing system that combines the strong points of both Eastern logographic and Western phonetic language representation paradigms. Notable features Vowels are represented as pure color, filling the space enclosed…

Corsican

Corsican (corsu) Corsican is a Romance language spoken by about 341,000 people. Most of the speakers live in Corsica, though there some in Paris and Marseilles and also in Bolivia, Canada, Cuba, Italy, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, the USA and Venezuela. Corsican has no official status in Corsica and French is the official language there. Corsican…

Cornish

Cornish (Kernewek/Kernowek/Kernuak/Curnoack) Cornish is a Celtic language closely related to Breton and Welsh spoken mainly in Cornwall (Kernow) and also by a few people in Australia and the USA. There are currently about 300 fluent speakers and many more people have some knowledge of the language. History Cornish started to diverge from Welsh towards the…