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Runic elven script, mainly for dwarven writing in his novel The Lord of the Rings: Clear Script: 1648: Zaya Pandit: Alphabet used to write the Oirat language; based on Mongolian script Coorgi-Cox: 2005: Gregg M. Cox: A proposed abugida for the Kodava language: Cyrillic: Cyrl / Cyrs: ca. 940: Saint Cyril or his students
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet . Hanyu ( 汉语 ; 漢語 ) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'.
Mah documented the visit on video, during which she presented Zhou with a pinyin game for the iPad that she had created. [14] Zhou became a supercentenarian on 13 January 2016 when he reached the age of 110. [15] Zhou died on 14 January 2017 at his home in Beijing, one day after his 111th birthday. The cause of death was not made public. [3]
Romanization of Chinese (Chinese: 中文拉丁化; pinyin: zhōngwén lādīnghuà) is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Chinese.Chinese uses a logographic script and its characters do not represent phonemes directly.
Chinese input methods predate the computer. One of the early attempts was an electro-mechanical Chinese typewriter Ming kwai (Chinese: 明快; pinyin: míngkuài; Wade–Giles: ming-k'uai) which was invented by Lin Yutang, a prominent Chinese writer, in the 1940s. It assigned thirty base shapes or strokes to different keys and adopted a new way ...
Roblox occasionally hosts real-life and virtual events. They have in the past hosted events such as BloxCon, which was a convention for ordinary players on the platform. [45] Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts [51] and also hosts an annual event called the "Bloxy Awards", an awards ceremony that also functions as a fundraiser. The 2020 ...
Other scripts, such as John Malone's Unifon, [10] Sir James Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet, [11] and Alexander Melville Bell's Visible Speech [12] were invented for pedagogical purposes. Yerkish , a communication system created for use by non-human primates, involves a system of lexigrams- visual symbols corresponding to various objects and ...
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.