Alphabets & writing systems
Information about alphabets and other writing systems.
- A-Z index
- What is writing?
- Differences between writing and speech
- Types of writing system
- Direction index
Constructed scripts
Scripts invented for by visitors to Ommniglot, and for books, films, etc.
- Constructed scripts for natural languages
- Constructed scripts for constructed languages
- Fictional scripts
- Phonetic scripts
- Adapted scripts
- A-Z index
- How to submit a con-script
Learn languages
Learn the basics of over 200 languages.
- How to learn languages
- Useful phrases and other phrases
- Numbers, colours and time expressions, kinship terms
- Idioms, proverbs and tongue twisters
- Country and language names
- UDHR, Tower of Babel and Songs
- Chinese and Celtic languages
- Find language tutors in the USA or UK
About languages
Information about languages, language-related articles and videos.
What's new?
New and improved pages on Omniglot.
- New article: What Free Online Translation Means to Translation Companies
- New language: Cypriot Arabic
- New language: Khorasani Turkic
- New constructed script: Tactile Rila Sign System
- New language: Bodo
- New language: Arakanese
- New article: The Evolution of The English Language
- New article: Learning German in Berlin
- Improved page: Avar
- New article: The Psychology of Language: How Humans Convey Emotion through Speech
- New article: Why is a turkey called a turkey? And why is Turkey, too?
- New phrases page: Uyghur
- Improved pages: Talysh language and Talysh numbers
- More news
