Writing systems
Information about alphabets and other writing systems.
- Alphabets
- Abjads (Consonant alphabets)
- Abugidas (Syllabic alphabets)
- Syllabaries
- Semanto-phonetic scripts
- Alternative scripts
- Undeciphered scripts
- Language and writing statistics
- A-Z index | Index by writing direction
Constructed scripts
Constructed scripts for books, films, TV, games, and for fun.
- Scripts for natural languages
- Scripts for constructed languages
- Colour-based scripts
- Phonetic/Universal scripts
- Adapted scripts
- Fictional alphabets
- Magical alphabets
- A-Z index of constructed scripts
Languages
Learn languages and learn about languages.
- Useful phrases | Silly phrases
- Multilingual Phrase Finder
- Numbers | Time | Colours
- Family words
- Terms of endearment
- Idioms | Proverbs
- Tongue twisters
- Other multilingual pages
- Songs and Tunes
- Celtic languages
- Q International Keyboard
What's new?
New and improved pages on Omniglot.
- New blog post: Cheese, Juice and Porridge
- New podcast: Episode 26 – The Man Who Made Birch Bark Talk
- New numbers page: Dargwa
- New blog post: Language quiz
- New blog post: Hopes and Dreams
- New language: Knaanic
- New language: Mozarabic
- New fictional script: Women's script
- New blog post: Trolling Carols
- New phrases page: Mozarabic
- New constructed script: Bharati
- New numbers page: Kyrgyz
- New language: Digo
- New numbers page: Kazakh
- New language: Kuy
- New adapated script: Benglic
- New blog post: Fields and Warriors
- New numbers page: Abellen
- New numbers page: Kuy
