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 numbers page: Hungarian
- New blog post: Language quiz
- New podcast: Episode 23 – Czech (čeština)
- New blog post: Tender fondness
- New language: Bade
- New blog post: Do you latibulate?
- New language: Mwaghavul
- New numbers page: Proto-Indo-European
- New language: Proto-Indo-European
- New phrases page: Lezgi
- New numbers page: Tatar
- New adapted script: Lezgurji
- New article: Translation Differences Across Europe
- Improved page: Lezgi
- New blog post: Dilemmas and Trilemmas
- New weather page: Dutch
- New blog post: Soft mitigation
- New page: Terms of endearment in Russian
- New language: Jarawa
- New language: Onge
