Atayal Atayal is a member of the Formosan group or Austronesian languages. It is spoken in central and northern Taiwan along the Hsuehshan mountains by about 84,000 people. There are two main dialects: Squliq and C’uli’ (Ts’ole). The language is also known as Tayal, Tyal, Taiyal, Ataiyal, Attayal, Taijyal, Bonotsek, Shabogala, Takonaans, or Tangao Yukaans,…
Asturian (asturianu) Asturian, which is also known as Bable, is a Romance language spoken by about 550,000 people in parts of Asturias (Asturies) in the north of Spain. Asturian is very closely related to Mirandese and was influenced by the pre-Roman languages spoken in the Asturias region. Asturian first appeared in writing in 1155. It…
Assamese is an eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 20 million people in the Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, and also spoken in Bangladesh and Bhutan. Assamese is closely related to Bengali and Oriya, The Assamese alphabet is written with a version of the Bengali alphabet. The first printed book in was…
Asha’fru’kretobi Asha’fru’kretobi is the alphabet for Ash’fru, a language invented by Christopher Yale Tang (唐泰川) in the winter of 2005. The word Ash’fru means “heavenly inspirition” while Asha’fru’kretobi means “writing Ash’fru”. Christopher invented the language to keep his diary and to make secret notes. Sometimes his family communicates with each other (especially with him)…
Arvanitic (αρbε̰ρίσ̈τ) Arvanitic or Arvanitika is a descendent of Albanian spoken by the Arvanite people in Greece, especially in southern Greece. It is closely related to the Tosk dialect of Albanian and Arbëresh, the dialect of Albanian spoken in Italy and there is considerable mutual intelligibility between these varieties. There are somewhere between 30,000 and…
Arrows The Arrows alphabet was invented by Alec Mertz to write his conlang of the same name. Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines Used to write: Arrows Arrows alphabet Sample text Transliteration Ōs sāpens esseu frāeidus ē acuil an dāiżinno ē hūmānas lēbras. Dżuel esseu…
Arrernte (Arrernte angkentye) Arrernte is part of the Arandic group of the Pama-Nyungan languages, and is spoken by about 3,000 people in central Australia, particularly in Alice Springs (Mparntwe). It is one of the strongest Australian Aboriginal languages as a result of the isolation of the Arrernte-speaking areas. There are five dialects of Arrernte, Central…
Aromanian (Armãneashti, Armãneashce, Rrãmãneasht) Aromanian is an Eastern Romance language spoken in Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia by about 300,000 people. Aromanian is closely related to Romanian, though contains more vocabulary of Greek origin, while Romanian has absorbed a lot of vocabulary from Slavic languages and Hungarian. The Aromanians are known by different…
Armenian Armenian is an Indo-European language with about 6.7 million speakers mainly in Armenia (Հայաստան [Hayastan]) and Nagorno-Karabakh, a de facto, though unrecognised, independent republic in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus. There are also Armenian speakers in many other countries, including Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Turkey, Iran, Cyprus, Poland and Romania. Armenian is…
Ariyaka The Ariyaka alphabet was invented by King Mongkut Rama IV of Siam (1804-1868) as an alternative alphabet for Pali. He considered the Khmer alphabet, which was commonly used to write Pali, to be too complicated and decided to create an alphabet that was easier to use and more Western in appearance. The King…
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