Adaptations of existing alphabets for natural languages

These are ways to write languages with alphabets not normally used to write them devised by visitors to Omniglot.

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Adaptations of:

Constructed scripts for:
Ainu
Arabic
Chinese languages
Dutch
English
Hawaiian
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Spanish
Tagalog
Turkish
Vietnamese
Welsh
Other natural languages
Colour-based scripts
Phonetic/universal scripts
Constructed scripts for constructed languages
Adaptations of existing alphabets
Fictional alphabets
Magical alphabets
A-Z index
How to submit a constructed script

Arabic alphabet

Anglo-Arabic (for English)	أالابضأقىلولىسضى Ajalaptlajkuilolistli (for Nahuatl)
Arabic Greek	انگریزی Angrezi (for English)
صلکَ Cillica (for Assamese)	اَرَبِخَّرَ Arabikkhara (for Sanskrit and Pali)
يرون أوراگ Ossetian Arabic	الفابهت گخاربي مالتي Maltese Arabic
پورتۇگاَرابع Portugárabe (for Portuguese)	Polish abdjad
Romanabic (for English)	پن٘جابی Punjabi
	وٙذٛر گٙمرَێغ اَرَبٜغ Welsh Arabic

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Canadian Aboringinal Syllabics (CAS)

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics is the collective name for the syllabic writing systems used in Canada to write such languages as Inuktitut, Cree and Ojibwe.

Kanadana
(CAS for Japanese)

ᓇᐜᐤᐊᕦᐦᑐᐜᓫᓕ
Nahuatl Syllabics

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Cyrillic alphabet

Койллик Coillic (Cyrillic for Irish)	Цѵрилика Cyrilika (for Slovak)
Сириллиш Cyrillisch (for English)	Есперанто-цирила Esperanto Cyrillic
Суомен киріллінен ааккосет Finnish Cyrillic	Деуч Кыриллишес Алфабет German Cyrillic
Итаԓирико Italian Cyrillic	маѓар цирилл Hungarian Cyrillic
Кириллицунда Кириллицунда (for Sundanese)	Кириру Kiriru (for Japanese)
Кориллик Korillic (Cyrillic for Korean)	лиетувиў калба Lithuanian Cyrillic
Дінєь Бізаад Cyrillic Navajo alphabet	Дәнш Тунга Old Norse Cyrillic
Поʌскі цириʌіца Polish Cyrillic	Полскизцырылицѫ Polskizcyrylicą (for Polish)
Портурыличо Porturílico (Porturillic) (for Portuguese)	Ренглиш Renglish (for English)
Шќіпрілік Shqiprillic (Cyrillic for Albanian)	Сӣрилика Sīrilika (for Sanskrit)
Словенщіна Slovenian Cyrillic	Еспаӈӥрико Spanish Cyrillic
Түркче Turkish Cyrillic	Кърилиѓ Къмраеѓ Welsh Cyrillic
Картурилица Karturilitsa (for Georgian)	кириллгыл Kirill-geul (for Korean)
Бинглик Benglic (for Bengali)

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Devanagari alphabet

अल्‍अ़रबिन्दियः॑ Arabindi (Devanagari for Arabic)	इन्दोगन Indogana (Devanagari for Japanese)
Latinagari (Devanagari for English)	Noot-Nagari (Extended Devanagari for all languages of India)
अबकद Indian-abakada (for Tagalog)

Georgian alphabet

ლა ქართველა სქრიბსისთემო დე ესფერანთო Georgian Esperanto	ლეზგურჲი Lezgurji (for Lezgi)
მჰედრულიცა Mhedrulica (for Serbian)	ბიქჯუქუნაბ ჹიჲჹა Pikchukunap Qillqa (for Quechua)

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Greek alphabet

Γραυκα Graeca (for Latin)	Γρεκο-Ἱσπανο Greco-Hispano (for Ladino and Spanish)
ΓΡΕΚΟΙΒΕΡΙΕΡΑΡΕΝ ΑΛΦΑΒΕΤΟ ΒΕῬΙΑ Grekoiberieraren Alfabeto Berria (Greco-Iberian alphabet for Basque)	γρεσπανικά Grespanic (for Spanish)
Γ'ασελ Għasel (for Maltese)

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Hebrew alphabet

שתוואנאבוּרוּלי Čveneburuli / Judeo-Georgian (for Georgian)	אַינֻ אַףצַת Aynu Apcat (for Ainu)
איבריא Ibria (for Malay & Indonesian)	חַגְרִית נְיֶלבֿ Hágrít Nyelv (for Hungarian)
תורֿבוק Kovrit (for Korean)	אֱֽעלֱת Inglith (for English)
Tiāojīnjiào zhī wénzì (for Mandarin)	צֶחֶפָֿתָ אֶסֶרַאֵלַוׅ Ṣəḥəfätä Ǝsəraelawi ጽሕፈተ እስራኤሳዊ (for Ge'ez)
יֻוּדוּ לִפִי Yūdu lipi (for Telugu)	יַחֻדִי טֻרְקְקֵﬞסִי יאחודי טיורקקﬞיסי Yahudi Türkçesi (for Turkish)

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Japanese scripts

Aynukana (Katakana for Ainu)	Eigana (Hiragana for English)
へら°がな Heļagana / හෙළගන (Hiragana for Sinhala)	韓ひらがな Kara Hiragana (Hiragana & Katakana for Korean)
カータカーナ　エイゴ Katakana Eigo (Katakana for English)

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Korean (Hangeul) alphabet

암엘잋안 한고뜨 American Hangul (for English)	애누이닥 누여 Ainu Nuye (for Ainu)
한글 딕 이트 툰 장 Hangeul Dik Ite Tun Jang (for Rejang)	Hanyinzi (for Mandarin)
Hangulized English	한군놀르 Hanguñol (for Spanish)
KoreoViet (for Vietnamese)	마우라 Maula (for Malay)
니혼노 한글 Nihon no Hangul (for Japanese)	뉘글 Nuigul (for Rapa Nui)
대ˊ임 찌 ̇ Tâi-im-jī (for Taiwanese Hokkien)	Zhongyinzi (for Chinese)

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Latin alphabet

These adaptations use the Latin alphabet, with letters taken from other alphabets in some cases.

Belarulacinka (Latin alphabet for Belarusian)	Eangsæx
Engreellic	hv̄ʌsʌrȷ̄pı Hookscript (for English)
Magyarfárszi Hunopersian (Latin alphabet for Persian)	Īnsù Pīn·īn Phonemic Pīnyīn (for Mandarin)
Kajarte (for Arabic, English & Polish)	Kalamiy (Latin alphabet for Arabic)
Karmeli (Latin alphabet for Hebrew)	Latin Arabic
Mìčþoba (Aramaya) Làtinaya Latinate (Aramaic) script	Modern Standard Alphabet (for Arabic, Dari & Pashto)
New Nikhilipi (for Indo-Aryan languages)	Pan-Indian Orthographic Alphabet (for languages of South Asia)
Roman Rekhta (for Hindi, Urdu, Bhojpuri and related languages)	Urdu Latin

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Ogham alphabet

Cornogham (for Cornish)	Iwerzoneg Skritur (for Breton)
Ogham for English	᚛ᚊᚆᚎᚑᚐ᚜ Quechuan Ogham (Qhichwa) (for Southern Quechua)

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Runic alphabets

ᛇᛋᛚᛂᚿᛋᚴᛁ ᚱᚤᛐᚢᚱᛁᚿᚿ
Runica
(Runic alphabet for Icelandic)

ᚱᚢᚾᛁᛊᚨ
Runica
(Elder Futhark for Serbian)

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Thai alphabet

อักษรเกาหลี Akson Kao-li (for Korean)	Tàiguó pǔtōnghuà (for Mandarin Chinese)
อพกท Thai-Abakada (for Tagalog)	ทัยพัโญล Thaipañol (for Spanish)
ยุ่ดใตเเษ๊ผู๋งผัด Yuht Tai Sé Fòng Faat / 粵泰寫方法 (for Cantonese)

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Other writing systems

Chữ Thái Việt (Tai Dam script for Vietnamese)	Coptic Latin (Coptic alphabet for Latin)
ລະໂ ມາໂຣິ Lao Māori	Utruscan (Ustrucan alphabet for English)
Voynich Script for English	މާއޮރި ތާނަ Māori Tāna (Thaana alphabet for Māori)
Hungarian Runes for Serbian	Γερβ͂ Gerbh (Greek, Coptic and Cyrillic for Proto-Indo-European)
මලගසි Sinhala for Malagasy (Sinhala alphabet for Malagasy)	Neobrahmi (Brahmi script for languages of India)
Neo-Gothic (Gothic alphabet for English)	Nie Sreft / Ни шрефт (Latin and Cyrillic alphabets for Low German)
ހަރޫފ ޔ ތާނާ Haruf-e-Tana (Thaana script for Urdu)

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Download fonts for some of these alphabets

Other sites featuring constructed scripts

http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/
http://idrani.perastar.com/ISMS_orthography.htm

Constructed scripts for:
Ainu
Arabic
Chinese languages
Dutch
English
Hawaiian
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Spanish
Tagalog
Turkish
Vietnamese
Welsh
Other natural languages
Colour-based scripts
Phonetic/universal scripts
Constructed scripts for constructed languages
Adaptations of existing alphabets
Fictional alphabets
Magical alphabets
A-Z index
How to submit a constructed script

Writing systems

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