Alabama (innaaɬiilka) Alabama is a Muskogean language spoken by about 100 members of the Alabama-Coushatta tribe in Texas. It used to be spoken in Oklahoma as well. It is most closely related to Koasati, and distantly related to Hitchiti, Chickasaw and Choctaw. Alabama alphabet Alabama pronunciation Notes D and E are only used in English…
akSarAH The akSarAH was invented by Aniruddha Basu in 1998 and was inspired the Brahmic scripts. Unlike such scripts, akSarAH vowels are written with individual letters while consonant are written with diacritics. Notable features Type of writing system: alpha-syllabary Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines. Used to write: virtually any language…
Akkhara Muni Akkhara Muni is an experimental script for Pali, the ecclesiastical language of Buddhism, devised by Ian James. Pali is normally written in the Sinhala, Khmer, Burmese, Devanagari, Lao or Thai scripts, or with the Latin alphabet using diacritics. This script uses a highly modified modern Latin font, with shapes based on those…
Akkadian Akkadian was a semitic language spoken in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) between about 2,800 BC and 500 AD. It was named after the city of Akkad and first appeared in Sumerian texts dating from 2,800 BC in the form of Akkadian names. The Akkadian cuneiform script was adapted from Sumerian cuneiform in…
Akhvakh (Ашwалlи мицlи) Akhvakh is a North East Caucasian language spoken by about 6,500 people mainly in the southwest of the Republic of Dagestan of the Russian Federation, especially in the mountains between the Andi-Koisu and Avar-Koisu rivers. There are two main Akhvakh dialects: Northern Akhvakh and Southern Akhvakh, and due to the limited mutually…
Akan The Akan languages are part of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo languages. There are about 7 million Akan speakers in eastern Ivory Coast, south-central Ghana, and central Togo. There are numerous dialects of Akan, including Twi, Fante, Bono, Wasa, Nzema, Baule and Anyi, with a high level of mutual intelligibility between them. Akan…
Ajan Ajan is an abjad used to represent the Qatama language. Ajan and the Qatama conlang were invented by Carl Buck for use in his conworld, Qatama. It was created as an alternative to the alphabet Moj. Notable features Ajan is written vertically, in columns running from left to right. The word ‘ajan’ not only…
Ainu (アイヌ イタク/Aynu itak) Ainu is spoken on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido by maybe 15 families. It was once spoken in the Kurile Islands, the northern part of Honshu and the southern half of Sakhalin. The last Ainu speaker on Sakhalin died in 1994. Ainu is a language isolate, unrelated to any other…
Origin The Ahom script was probably derived from the Brahmi script. Ahom is an extinct Tai language spoken by the Ahom people who ruled the Brahmaputra valley in the Indian state of Assam between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Ahom was replaced with Assamese in the early 19th century. Efforts are currently being…
Agıšá was invented by David Ward to write his conlang, Agíza/Agízabuá. He created an outline for this alphabet back in 2004, forgot about it, then finished it in June 2007. He was inspired by Tengwar and Bel’Arian. Notable Features Type of writing system: alphabet Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines. Agıšá Punctuation…
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