Coptic Latin This is a system for writing Latin (Catholic Latin) using the Coptic Alphabet invented by David Biliot, who uses it to teach Latin to English speaking students. The reason he uses this is to overcome several of the difficulties encountered by English speaking students when they approach Catholic Latin for the first…
Coptic The Coptic alphabet is variant of the Greek alphabet containing a number of extra letters for sounds not found in Greek. The extra letters come from the Demotic form of the Egyptian script. The Coptic alphabet came into being during the 3rd century BC after the Greek conquest of Egypt and the subsequent spread…
Comanche (numu tekwapu) Comanche is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in south west Oklahoma and New Mexico by about 854 mainly elderly speakers, out of a total Comanche population of 12,000. In the early years of the 19th century many Comanche children were taken from their homes and educated in boarding schools where the language of…
ColorHoney and ColorTokki The ColorHoney and ColorTokki alphabets were invented by Kim Godgul in 2009 as alternative ways of writing English. They use six colours (Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) and different shapes to represent different letters, with each letter being represented by two colours. The scripts are similar, but use different shapes…
Colorbet (Color IPA) The Color alphabet on the base of IPA is worked out by Vitaly Vetash, the Russian painter and linguist. The first varient of the color alphabet was done in 1983, on the base of psycholinguistic investigations. The model is based on the kinship of psychological meaning of sounds and colors. In the…
colorAlphabet Origin The colorAlphabet is a method of writing English using colours invented by Christian Faur. It is made of 26 distinct colours which map to the 26 letters of the English alphabet. This alphabet is designed to allow Christian, as an artist, to construct meaning out of color directly and unambiguously using the…
h1>Cofán (A’ingae) Cofán is spoken in Napo Province in north east Ecuador and in southern Colombia by about 1,000 people. The relationship of Cofán to other languages is uncertain: some linguists believe it to be related to the Chibchan languages, though this may be a result to borrowed vocabulary. Cofán pronunciation Sample text in Cofán…
Coelbren y Beirdd / The Bardic Alphabet Iolo Morganwg, a.k.a. Edward Williams (1747-1826), an antiquarian, poet and collector of medieval Welsh literature, invented Coelbren y Beirdd or The Bardic Alphabet in about 1791 and claimed that it was the alphabet of the old Welsh bards. In 1840 Taliesin ab Iolo, Iolo Morganwg’s son, published a…
h1>Cloud and Rain Cloud and Rain (Felhő és Eső) is an alternative script for Hungarian invented by Radványi Balázs, who uses it to write his diary. It has a horizontal mode (Cloud / Felhő), and a vertical mode (Rain / Eső), which uses mirrored letters and is written in vertical lines, from top to…
Irish uncial alphabet The Irish uncial alphabet originated in medieval manuscripts as a variant of the Latin alphabet. The first Gaelic typeface was designed in 1571 for a catechism commissioned by Elizabeth I, Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma by Seán Ó Cearnaigh, and this style of typeface was used for printing Irish until mid-20th century.…
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