Cirth Origin J.R.R. Tolkien created many languages throughout his life. He wrote in one of his letters that the tales of Middle-earth (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarilion) grew from these languages, rather than the languages being created for use in the stories. Tolkien also created a number of different…
Cimbrian (Tzimbrisch) Cimbrian is a Germanic language spoken by about 2,230 people in northeast Italy in the Sette and Tredici Comuni (Sieben and Dreizehn Gemainde) south of Trent, in some towns of Giazza (Glietzen, Ljetzen), Roana (Rabam), Lusern and in Venetia Province. Cimbrian is taught in primary schools, but it is in danger of becoming…
Cilthic Cilthic was designed by Daniel S. Andersen, for use in a fantasy world he is developing, called Sorukan. It is used to write a constructed language, also called Cilthic, which is spoken by over 20 million people in the Kainlo (Cínlo) Empire, a fictional country in Sorukan. Daniel invites all those with an…
Ciijan alphabet Ciijan alphabet was invented by Christian ‘Chrißo’ Meredith as an alternative alphabet for English. It was inspired by the Latin, Greek, Armenian, Cyrillic, Katakana, Hiragana and Cherokee scripts, and Christian invented it while studying Armenian. Notable features Type of script: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines All letters…
Cibara The Cibara alphabet was created by Ben Kantack on weekends for fun. He wanted to design a script for English that looked something like Arabic. “Cibara” is “Arabic” backwards. Cibara is used to write English phonetically. It is written left to right in vertical columns. Letters in a word are connected by attaching…
Cia-Cia (바하사 찌아찌아 / Bahasa Ciacia) Cia-Cia is an Austronesian language spoken by about 80,000 people on Buton Island, a part of Indonesia to the south east of Sualwesi. Most Cia-Cia speakers live in and around the town of Bau-Bau, on the soutern tip of Buton, and there are also speakers on Binongko and Batu…
Chữ Vòng Chữ Vòng, literally “circle script”, is an alternative alphabet for Vietnamese invented by Albert Nguyen. The motivation to create Chữ Vòng came from the desire to mimic the ability of Korean and Japanese, which also once used Chinese as the sole writing system, to maintain the use of Chinese characters along with…
Chuvash (Чӑваш чӗлхи) Chuvash is a Turkic language with about 2 million speakers in Russia. It is the official language of the Chuvash Republic, Чăваш Республики, which is also known as the Chuvashia, Чува́шия, and is also spoken in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. The first Chuvash grammar was published in 1769. A number of dictionaries, translations of…
Chữ Thái Việt Chữ Thái Việt was devised by Hoang Tran and is an exercise in adapting an existing writing system to a new phonetic environment, specifically adapting the Tai-Kadai script Tai Dam to transcribe Vietnamese, a Mon-Khmer language. (Tai Dam is also called generically as Tai Viet to encompass all Tai ethnic groups…
Chữ-nôm script Origin Vietnam was ruled by the Chinese for over a thousand years from 111 BC – 938 AD. As a result, the official written language was Classical Chinese, known as Chữ-nho (𡨸儒) in Vietnamese, which continued to be used in Vietnam, in parallel with Chữ-nôm (𡨸喃) and Quốc Ngữ, until about 1918. Sometime…
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