Tajik (a.k.a. Galcha) is the the variety of Persian spoken in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Afghanistan by about 4.4 million people. The Persian language in this region was renamed Tajik by Stalin in 1932 in order to distance Persian speakers in Central Asia from Persian speakers in Iran. Before 1928, Tajik…
Takri alphabet The Takri alphabet is a Brahmic alphabet related to the Sharada, Landa and Gurmukhi alphabets, descended from the Devāśeṣa alphabet, which developed from the Sharada alphabet in the 14th century. The Takri alphabet emerged as a distinct script during the 16th century. Takri was as an official script in parts of north…
Talisman Scrypte The Talisman Scrypte was created by Thomas Maska (TomMaska@aol.com) as a decorative script. The ficitional people who use it enscribed it on pendants and other objects to give them super-natural power. Notable features It is written in a circular, clockwise direction The vowels are the most important letters in the script Can be…
Tamil Origin The earliest known Tamil inscriptions date back to at least 500 BC. The oldest literary text in Tamil, Tolkāppiyam, was composed around 200 BC. The Tamil alphabet is is thought to have evolved from the Brahmi script, though some scholars believe that its origins go back to the Indus script. The alphabet…
Tanar The Tanar alphabet was invented by Tad Deffler for use in a role-playing game, and mostly done as a lark. It was primary used for English transcriptions. However, it also has symbols for Spanish consonants (such as ñ) and vowels (such as un-diphthonged long o). There are two versions of Tanar: the Tanar-Vernacular…
Tangut The Tangut script was modelled on the Chinese and Khitan scripts. It was apparently devised by one ‘Teacher Iri’ in 1037 and was used for the translation of Buddhist texts from Sanskrit and other languages. It was used until the 16th century – the most recent known inscription in the Tangut script dates to…
Tano The Tano alphabet was invented by Piyush Maurya and his friends to talk with each other in a secret way. The alphabet is based on slashes and horizontal and vertical lines. Notable features Type of writing system: Alphabet Direction of writing: Left to right in horizontal lines Used to write: English Tano Alphabet…
Tapissary Tapissary is the creation of Steven Travis, who has been working on it for many years. It is a hieroglyphic language originally inspired by American Sign Language of the Deaf. He was an interpreter, but in his free time began stylizing its graceful movements into script. He added pictographs and reworked characters from…
Tatar (tatarça / татарча / تاتارچا) Tatar is a Turkic language with about 7 million speakers in Russian republic of Tatarstan, and also in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkey (Europe), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, USA and Uzbekistan. Tatar has been written with a number of different alphabets: before…
Tausūg (Bahasa Sūg) Tausūg is spoken by about 1 million people in parts of the Philippines, in Malaysia, and in Indonesia, particularly on the Sulu Archipelago, the Zamboanga Peninsula, Southern Palawan in the Philippines, in Sabah in Malaysia, and in Kalimantan in Indonesia. Tausūg a member of the Visayan branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is…
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