This is a FUN page.  I have enjoyed putting it together, I hope you enjoy it.  Please don't be critical, as I said, it's just for fun.  If you have come across something that isn't shown here, please send it to me.  If you have created a language, please send it to me.  If you think something should be in a different "place", nicely let me know.... Todd

I love languages.  I did terrible in high school struggling with French for three years.  Maybe I didn't start early enough.  I'm envious of people who can speak more than one language, even more when they can switch back and forth without even thinking, and astounded when you can't tell which is their native tongue, like my buddy Ed from work who was born in Cuba, came to the states when he was something like 8,  and learned "American" so well, you can't tell he came from "somewhere else" - impressive!  And then there are people who are proficient in many languages, like one of my Neurologists, who could speak five languages, all of them fluently..... some people have all the luck!

I have to tell you tho, I differentiate between the English we use here in the states and the English spoken in the U.K.....
IMHO, "We" don't speak English here in the states, we speak "American", real English is spoken in Britain. :-)  LOL

So how did this page come about?  One day I was on Pinterest, searching for some photos to add to one of my railfan pages when a random image popped up - it was a chart of several ancient languages.  Down the rabbit hole I went, and as I clicked on the various charts, more and more of them appeared - and I got more and more hooked :-).  While some of the charts showing up were "real" languages, most are fantasy languages made up by people that I guess have as much fun doing that, as I do creating stupid non-sensical pages like this.... a different kind of creativity.  If anyone created any of these, and wants notoriety, please email me, and I will be glad to add your name and a link to a page you might have where you show off your work.

If you're the kind of person that would ask the question as to why someone would spend the time to create their own fantasy or mythical language, you would also have to ask why someone would spend their time creating a page as I did for my favorite movie, Oblivion. OCD, huh?  :-)  I spent about 6hrs or so just recreating part of the map used on Vika's display console.  Whatever floats your boat.  And almost every time I watch the movie, about every other week, I find another stupid little detail to point out.....

The first chart is the one that started it all.  It was originally white letters on a black background, and I thought that was just a tad difficult to look at for any amount of time, so I "photoshopped" it, retaining the original border and replacing the hard to read script with Arial Rounded MT Bold, my favorite font.

I don't understand why tho, everyone creating another language feels the need to create one that has an equivalent for every letter we have in English, the Hawaiian's didn't see the need, so they only have 13 letters in their alphabet???  The Klingon's don't have all 26 letters in their alphabet either :-)  I also have a problem with people who create a language and feel the need to have double consonants - WHY?  What purpose does it serve?  The Gallifrey language is a perfect example of why I ask this if the creator felt the need to do away with "C" since it could be "subbed" with either a "K" or "CH" - double letters are equally not needed.  Just my 2¢.

I've also included other such things as symbols, Morse Code, nautical flag letters, American Sign Language, and the like.  Why did I name them all - Language-?  Being a simpleton, it was just easier to hit 'save as', and then click on the last entry, and change it to the next number, instead of doing a lot of typing.  And was the first one I saved.

Just an observation: It would seem that the majority of "mystical" languages are probably created by "English" speaking folks, or at least those of you whose language is based on the Latin-script alphabet with 26 letters.  So far, I've seen very few mystical languages created by non-26 letter alphabet using folks other than a few using Russian (35, 40, 94) - at least not from what I have found on Pinterest.  So again, I ask the question, "why do the mystical and made-up languages need 26 letters/characters in them - why not 13 like Hawaiian, or 36 as in Polish???  Here is one example with 26:



A couple of references on the English Language from Wikipedia:



Stuff with an orange "?" have not been checked for "authenticity, i.e.: 208.  I have done -some- checking into the validity of some of the charts, the Greek ones come to mind because someone on Pinterest had made the comment that one of them wasn't correct, so I went looking and found that it agreed with all of the other examples I could find.  Remember, I'm not an expert on any of this stuff, but it sure is interesting to discover and once in a while I do learn something !!! :-)  IN OTHER WORDS: I'm just having fun with this.  Please write me if you have something to contribute, but please DON'T write me to complain, I dislike whiners LOL, like I'm doing right now. Ha.

Almost all of these charts were found via Pinterest, with some of the links taking you to other places such as Amazon, Temu, or Ali Express where you could buy these things as metal signs for hanging on your walls.

Acknowledgements:
Ali Express
Amazon
Brook
C Korankye
Guy Moore
Happy Fiesta Design
Pinterest
ProjectWarSword
Shemual Bensusan
Temu
Wikipedia

Websites and other additional information sources of interest for the area:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/5348093292044415/ Just one of a million possibilities.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet
https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/klingon.htm
https://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/en/letters/katakana.html
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/how-to-read-the-hebrew-alphabet/ beautifully done page!

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Real World Languages

Alphabets and Misc Languages
Albanian
American Sign Language
Arabic / Persian / Farsi
Braille
Chinese
Egyptian / Hieroglyphics
the Global Alphabet
Greek
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Japanese
Mongolian
Nigerian
Rune Related
Russian
Thai
Vietnamese

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Alphabets and Languages

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Abanian

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American Sign Language

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Arabic / Farsi / Persian

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Braille

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Chinese

A few charts is totally inadequite to do any justice to the complex Chinese language!

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Egyptian / Hieroglyphics

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the Global Alphabet

Ever heard of it? I hadn't until I came across it in looking for additional languages and alphabets!

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Greek

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Hawaiian

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Hebrew

A beautiful language!  It's not tooooo hard to learn, and I would like to thank David Pincu back in 1984/85 for teaching me how to read and pronounce.  If he reads this, I hope he will shoot me an email.  Hebrew is a consonant based alphabet, with Alef and Yod being the only printed vowels, generally.  Alef can be any of the vowel sounds, indicated by a Nikkud, a series of dots and dashes placed over or under a consonant in "pointed" printing.  In newspapers, you would rarely see the nikkidums used.

Fantasy and Mystical

Creators: If you want credit for your creations, please email me and I will add your name to the JPEG as I did with #032!

Gallifreyan - Dr Who
Alchemy
Kartuli Phonet'ik 'uri Anbani
Triglavin
Witchcraft

Symbols

Alien, Superhero, TV and Movie

Symbols

Floobydust