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The Western Pwo alphabet (Pwo Western Karen: ၦဖျိၩ့ၡိအလံၬခၪ့ထံၭ /pə pʰloúɴ ɕô ʔə leiʔ kʰàɴ tʰeiʔ/) is an abugida used for writing Western Pwo language. It was derived from the Burmese script in the early 19th century, and ultimately from either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India.
The Western Cham people are mostly Muslim [9] and therefore prefer the Arabic script. The Eastern Cham are mostly Hindu and continued to use the Indic script. During French colonial times, both groups had to use the Latin alphabet. [citation needed] There are two varieties of the Cham script: Akhar Thrah (Eastern Cham) and Akhar Srak (Western ...
A phonemic alphabet designed for the English language: D'ni: 1997: Richard A. Watson: Alphabet for the fictional language in the game Riven and its sequels Duployan shorthand: Dupl: 1891: Jean-Marie Le Jeune: Historically used as the main (non-shorthand) script for Chinook Jargon: Elbasan: Elba: 1761: disputed: Alphabet for Albanian used to ...
Mao, also known as Sopvoma, is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Angami–Pochuri linguistic sub-branch. [2] It is spoken primarily in Senapati district, northwestern Manipur and in Nagaland, India. It is similar to Angami. [3] The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue. [4]
Though the modern Assamese alphabet does not use this glyph for any letter, modern Tirhuta continues to use this for va. Image 2: The native names, in Bengali–Assamese, of the three scheduled languages of India that commonly use this script, followed by their standard English names and a Latin transliteration of the native name in parentheses.
The system embodies two principles: (1) alphabetic letters from the English alphabet are used to write Ojibwe but with Ojibwe sound values; (2) the system is phonemic in nature in that each letter or letter combination indicates its basic sound value and does not reflect all the phonetic detail that occurs. Accurate pronunciation thus cannot be ...
The Bengali alphabet or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, bangla bôrnômala) or Bengali script (Bengali: বাংলা লিপি, bangla lipi) is the writing system, originating in the Indian subcontinent, for the Bengali language and is the fifth most widely used writing system in the world.
[a] [2] [3] Today, the Latin script is commonly encountered across Africa, especially in the Western, Central and Southern Africa regions. Arabic script is mainly used in North Africa and Ge'ez script is widely used in the Horn of Africa. Regionally and in some localities, other scripts may be of significant importance.