Aghul is spoken mainly in southern Dagestan in Russia, and also in Azerbaijan by about 28,300 people. It belongs to the Eastern Samur group of the Lezgic branch of the Northeast Caucasian language family. Aghul has been used to some extent in newspapers, there are is also an Aghul dictionary, a grammar and an Aghul…
Afar is a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken by a about 1 million people in Ethiopia, and by a further 460,000 or so people in Djibouti and Eritrea. It’s closely related to the Saho language. The Afar alphabet or Qafar Feera was created by Dimis and Redo, two Afar intellectual nationalists who published their work…
Adyghe is a North West Caucasian language spoken by about 300,000 people mainly in the Republic of Adygea in the Russian Federation. Adyghe, which is also known as West Circassian, is also spoken in Turkey, Israel and Jordan. Adyghe is closely related to Kabardian, and to a lesser extent to Ubykh, Abkhaz and Abaza. According…
This conscript was created in 2004 by Arno Luyendijk as a derivation on the fictional history of the Numenoreans in The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. Arno is art historian by education and a great lover of medieval manuscripts and fantasy novels and films, and is also a graphic artist/painter. Ancient scripts have always been an…
Acrography was invented by Bae Jun in 2002 and was inspired by various writing systems. The names of the letters indicate which writing system they come from the first leters of those names represent the pronunciation of the letters. Some letters are modified or simplified to make them easier to write. The name Acrography is…
Abkhaz is a North West Caucasian language related to Abaza, Adyghe, Kabardian and Ubykh. About 100,000 people speak Abkhaz in Abkhazia, an autonomous republic within Georgia. There are also Abkhaz speakers, perhaps hundreds of thousands, in Turkey, the republic of Adjara in Georgia, Syria, Jordan, Germany and the USA. Abkhaz first appeared in writing in…
Abenaki is an Eastern Algonquian language with only a handful of fluent speakers, and perhaps several hundred non-fluent speakers. Most Abenaki speakers are elderly and live on the Odanak reservation in Quebec, Canada. It was originally spoken in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Efforts are being made to revive the language. There are two main…
Abaza is a North West Caucasian language spoken by about 45,000 people in the Russian autonomous republics of Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygea, and also in Germany, Turkey and the USA. It is fairly closely related to Abkhaz and is intelligible with it to some extent. Like other Caucasian languages, Abaza has a large number of consonants…
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