Modern

11 scripts

Invented by Solomana Kante for Manding languages. Written right to left. Has 19 consonants...

Invented by Osman Yusuf Kenadid for the Somali language. Has 22 consonants and 5 vowels. W...

A writing system for sign languages. Invented by Valerie Sutton. Can record any sign langu...

The official phonetic alphabet of China, also called Zhuyin. 37 symbols derived from Chine...

A phonetic alphabet for English funded by the will of playwright George Bernard Shaw. 48 l...

Created by two teenage brothers, Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry, for the Fulani language. Wr...

A syllabic script for the Mende language of Sierra Leone. Invented by Mohamed Turay around...

An alphabet for the Bassa language of Liberia. Possibly rooted in older Bassa signs revive...

Also called Gadabuursi script, an alphabet for Somali devised by Sheikh Abdurahman Sheikh ...

A script for the Hmong language created by Shong Lue Yang, revered as the Mother of Writin...

Devised by missionary Samuel Pollard for the A-Hmao or Big Flowery Miao language of Yunnan...