Cáiuén (才文) Cáiuén is the creation of Pangus Ho, who uses it to write his con-dialect of Chinese, (Cáiŋŷ/才语), but with modifications it’s actually suitable to write any Sino-Tibetan language, including standard Chinese. Notable features Each syllable is written in a block consists of 3 parts: 1. (tóu/头) the initial consonant 2. (zoŋ/中) the…
Byeokrando Byeokrando is an alternative script for Korean created by Bae Jun. It was modelled on the Arabic script but written from left to right and with letters that do not change shape depending on their position. The name Byeokrando comes from the name of a port dating from the Goryeo period (AD 918-1392)…
Buryat (буряад хэлэн) Buryat is a Mongolic language spoken by about 400,000 people mainly in the Republic of Buryatia, Ust-Ordyn and Aginsk autonomic districts of the Russian Federation, and also in northern Mongolia and northwestern China. A method of writing Buryat using the Cyrillic alphabet was created after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Before that, the…
Burushaski Burushaski is a language isolate unrelated to any other languages. It is spoken by about 50,000 people in the Hunza and Yasin valleys in northern Pakistan and Kashmir. A different dialect of the language is spoken in each of the valleys, though they are largely mutually intelligible. The language is also known as Biltum,…
Burmese script Origin The Burmese or Myanmar script developed from the Mon script, which was adapted from a southern Indian script during the 8th century. The earliest known inscriptions in the Burmese script date from the 11th century. Notable Features Type of writing system: syllabic alphabet – each letter has an inherent vowel [a].…
Bulughman alphabet The Bulughman alphabet was invented by TJ to write his conlang of the same name. The conlang is spoken by nomadic people that live on a hypothetical world on the eastern boundaries where they met Alexander, a conquestador, who taught them how to write their own language and communicate. Notable features Type of…
Bulgarian (Български) Bulgarian is a Southern Slavic language with about 12 million speakers mainly in Bulgaria, but also in Ukraine, Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Greece, Romania, Canada, USA, Australia, Germany and Spain. Bulgarian is mutually intelligible with Macedonian, and fairly closely related to Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Slovenian. Bulgarian was the first Slavic language to be…
Bukhori (бухорӣ / בּוּכאָריִ / بخاری) Bukhori is a variety of Persian spoken by Bukharian Jews in Uzbekistan, Israel and the USA. The majority of speakers, about 50,000, are in Israel, and a similar number can be found in Uzbekistan, the USA and a number of other countries. Bukhori, which is also known as Bukhari,…
Buhid Alphabet Origin The Buhid or Mangyan alphabet is thought to have descended from the Kawi script of Java, Bali and Sumatra, which in turn descended from the Pallava script, one of the southern Indian scripts derived from Brahmi. The Buhid alphabet is still used in the Philipines by the Buhid people of Mindoro.…
Budukh (Будад мез) Budukh is spoken by about 200 people in the Quba district in the northeast of Azerbaijan, and also in a few towns in the Russian Federation. Budukh is a member of the Lezgian subgroup of the Northeast Caucasian language family, is also known as Budugh, Budug, Budugi, Budux or Bukukhi, and is…
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