Christish, Tangish and Taichuanish
Square Alphabet for English (Christish)
The Square Alphabet for English was invented by Christopher Yale Tang (唐泰川)
during a boring politics lesson in 2002. He had been wanting to create a secret
writing system for quite a while and just started doodling. The name of the
script comes from Christopher’s English name and it can be used to write English,
French and almost all Latin-alphabet-based languages. Christopher and a number
of his friends use Christish to write letters and messages to each other.
Square Alphabet
Sample text
Transliteration
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They
are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another
in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Tangish
Christopher found that some of his friends were struggling with English and French,
so adapted Christish to write Chinese. The Chinese version is known as Tangish – the
name comes from his Chinese surname (唐).