Arabish is a simplified alphabet for English based on the Arabic script. It was developed by Bill Dushane in 2006. Notable features Letters are written from right to left. Not every letter in Arabish matches the sound that it possesses in the script used by Arabic itself. There are no upper case forms. Arabish alphabet…
Arabic The Arabic script evolved from the Nabataean Aramaic script. It has been used since the 4th century AD, but the earliest document, an inscription in Arabic, Syriac and Greek, dates from 512 AD. The Aramaic language has fewer consonants than Arabic, so during the 7th century new Arabic letters were created by adding dots…
Syrian Arabic Syrian Arabic is a variety of Levantine Arabic spoken mainly in Syria (سورية) and Lebanon (لُبْنَان). There are three main dialects which are spoken in Damascus (دِمَشقُ), the centre of the country, and the north of the country respectively. In parts of eastern Syria varieties of Iraqi Arabic and North Mesopotamian Arabic are…
Moroccan Arabic Moroccan Arabic is a variety of Maghrebi Arabic spoken in Morocco by about 20 million people. It is used mainly in everyday conversation, while Modern Standard Arabic is used in offical communications with the government and other public organisations, and a mixture of French and Moroccan Arabic is used in business. There is…
Egyptian Arabic Egyptian Arabic is spoken by about 50 million people in Egypt as well as by immigrant Egyptian communities in the Middle East, Europe and North America. Egyptian Arabic is perhaps the most widely understood variety of Arabic, thanks to the popularity of Egyptian-made films and TV shows Arabic was brought to Egypt by…
Algerian Arabic (الدارجة العربيّة الجزائريّة) Algerian Arabic is a variety of Maghrebi Arabic spoken in Algeria by about 20 million people. It is mainly used as spoken language in homes and between friends, and also in songs, and is rarely written down. Algerian Arabic has a Berber substrate and many loan words from French, Spanish…
Arabela (Tapweyokwaka) Arabela is a member of the Zaparoan language family and is spoken by about 50 people in two villages along the Napo tributary of the Arabela river in Peru. It is also known as Chiripuno or Chiripunu, and is closely related to other Zaparoan languages such as Záparo, Andoa and Conambo, all of…
Aqami The Aqami script (aqami’meq in Aqami) was created by Neonlights in 2011. It was influenced by the Mayan script and various other block scripts,and is used to write an invented language called Aqami. Notable features Type of script: alphasyllabary (called nud’meq) with logograms (called innip’meq) Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines…
Applebeech Michael McIntyre (dmmcintyr[at]users[dot]sourceforge[dot]net) created the Applebeech in the spring of 2005 in order to serve as a fully functional runic writing system for the modern English language. It is intended to be used for obfuscating messages without making it necessary to alter their natural spelling. He uses it for inscriptions set in concrete around…
Apasyosus The Apasyosus script was created in April 2006 by Christopher Yale Tang (唐泰川) to write his constructed language, Disus. Disus means “speaking” and Apasyosus comes from the word apothesis. They were created during the Spring Festival of 2005. Disus includes many Romance and Germanic words and the grammar seems like a simplification of the…
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