Brittish Writing System Brittish Writing System was invented Brittain Peck and developed from a block-letter font Brittain used in illustrations and public murals. The fundamental concept of the Brittish Writing System was to form letters by marking the negative space around them rather then the letters themselves. The writing system has been further developed…
Breton (ar brezhoneg) Breton is a Celtic language spoken mainly in Brittany (Breizh) by about 365,000 people, about 240,000 of whom speak it fluently. History The area known to the Romans as Armorica was renamed Brittany ("Little Britain") after the people who migrated there from Britain, particularly from Cornwall, in the 6th century AD. Between…
Braille Braille is writing system which enables blind and partially sighted people to read and write through touch. It was invented by Louis Braille (1809-1852), who was blind and became a teacher of the blind. It consists of patterns of raised dots arranged in cells of up to six dots in a 3 x…
Braille for Latin and Greek Samuel Barnes took three years of Latin in high school, and a semester of classical Greek in college. However he is now faced with vision loss and is having a hard time reading print, so he decided to devise his own method of writing Latin and Greek with Braille. At…
Braille for Chinese When Braille is used to write Chinese, it represents the sounds of the language rather than the characters. It is written from left to right in horizontal lines running from top to bottom. Each syllable is made up of three Braille letters: one for the initial, one for the final and one…
Braellaf The Braellaf alphabet is the creation of Jason Liekhus, who started work on it in July 2004 as a part of his fictional world project. He was inspired by some ideas that he had been researching, such as lenition and the phonetics of many Celtic and Germanic languages. The Alphabet’s aesthetic quality was…
Bostani Bostani is an alternative script for Persian devised by Ian James. Mattias Persson also provided major contributions to this project. The idea for this script arose from a discussion with Dr. Hamid Farroukh about the future of the Persian language, and certain problems facing young Persians in the writing of it. It is…
Bora Bora is a member of the Witotoan language family spoken by about 2,300 people in parts of Peru and Colombia. In Peru it is spoken in the Northeast Yaguasyacu, Putumayo, and Ampiyacu river areas, while in Colombia Bora speakers live in the Putumayo area. It is also spoken in Brazil, where it was known…
Bokscript Blokscript was invented in 2008 in Croatia by Vicko Bezić who was 12 years old at the time. It can be used to write English, particularly American and British English. There are no capital or small letters: all are the same so the grammar is easier. All letters are box-shaped and divided into…
Blox alphabet The Blox script was invented by Jon McV. as an alternative script for Semitic languages such as Arabic. It could also be adapted to write just about any other language. The consonsants are all made up of vertical lines. while the vowel are all horizontal lines, which are written above, through the…
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