Thieves' Ogham

The Thieves' Ogham alphabet was invented by River Langham and two childhood friends. They used it in an imaginary game set in medieval Scotland. Within the game, the backstory was that it was used to write "Thieves' Galk", a secret language used by a secret society of bandits and pirates, made by combining Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic. In real life, the inventors mainly used it to write secret messages in English.

Notable Features

Type of writing system: alphabet
Direction of writing: left to right, top to bottom or clockwise around the edges of geometric shapes
Based on both Ogham and Runic, with letter shapes inspired by the Roman alphabet
Lower-case letters are written on a line, like Ogham
Two kinds of capital letter: at the beginning of a line, capitals based on the runic alphabet are used. Within a line, an underline and overline around a letter make it a capital
Used to write: Any language that uses the basic Roman alphabet

Thieves' Ogham Alphabet

Thieves' Ogham alphabet

Sample Text

Sample Text in Thieves' Ogham

Translation

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)

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