Chumauni Chumauni was initially inspired by the structure of Hangul and style of Tibetan, with the idea of using a similarly regular structure and composition to create a writing system in transition from syllabary to alphabet. D. Jensen started the design for Chumauni in 2004 for a project he has since abandoned, but completed…
Chukchi (Луоравэтлан/Luoravetlan) Chukchi (also spelled Chukchee, Chukot, Chuchi, or Chuchee) is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken by about 10,400 people in northeastern Siberia, mainly on the Chukchi peninsula or Chukotka between the Chukchi and Bering Seas, and also in bordering areas of the Sakha Republic, Magadan Oblast’, and the Koryak Autonomous Region There are two groups…
Christish, Tangish and Taichuanish Square Alphabet for English (Christish) The Square Alphabet for English was invented by Christopher Yale Tang (唐泰川) during a boring politics lesson in 2002. He had been wanting to create a secret writing system for quite a while and just started doodling. The name of the script comes from Christopher’s…
Choctaw (Chahta Anumpa) Choctaw is a Western Muskogean language closely related to Chickasaw. There are about 7,000 speakers of Choctaw, most of whom live in the south east Oklahoma. There are also Choctaws in east central Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. Oklahoma is a Choctaw word meaning “red people.” The majority of Choctaw speakers are over…
CHIS (Charted Heterogenous Inscription System) The CHIS was developed by Ersten Prima from Indonesia. Unlike most of alternative writing system that replace symbols with other symbols, CHIS was designed to be a simple writing system that can handle many languages. While it is a bit more complex than an alphabet, it is easier than other…
h1>Chickasaw (Chikasha) Chickasaw is a Western Muskogean language spoken by about 1,000 people mainly in Oklahoma. The majority of the speakers are over 50 years old: the younger generation are drifting towards English. Despite the similarities between Choctaw and Chickasaw, most Choctaw speakers find the latter unintelligible. During the 17th and 18th centuries Chickasaw was…
Chichewa (Chicheŵa) Chichewa is a Bantu language spoken in parts of Malawi, where it is an official national language along with English, and also in Zambia, Mozambique, where the language is known as Chinyanja, and Zimbabwe. Between 7 and 8 million people speak Chichewa. The orthography of Chichewa was standardised in 1973 when the New…
Chiasel The Chiasel script was invented by Matt Youens for use in a fantasy story he is writing. It is used to write the language La Bangu, which has its phonology and vocabulary heavily based on Lojban, and could therefore also be adapted to write Lojban and Loglan. The name Chiasel comes from the…
Cheyenne (Tsėhesenėstsestotse / Tsisinstsistots) There are about 11,000 Cheyenne people, 3,000 of whom speak the Cheyenne language, a member of the Algonquian family. The Cheyenne population is divided between the Northern Cheyenne, who live on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana and number about 8,000, and the Southern Cheyenne, who live in western Oklahoma…
Cherokee syllabary The Cherokee syllabary, which was reputedly invented by George Guess, a.k.a. Chief Sequoyah, of the Cherokee, was introduced in 1819. Sequoyah’s descendants claim that he was the last surviving member of his tribe’s scribe clan and the Cherokee syllabary was invented by persons unknown at a much earlier date. By 1820 thousands…
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