Alphabets & writing systems
Information about alphabets and other writing systems.
- A-Z index
- Types of writing system
- What is writing?
- Differences between writing and speech
- Direction index
Learn languages
Learn the basics of many languages.
- Useful phrases and other phrases
- How to learn languages
- Numbers, colours and time expressions, kinship terms
- Idioms, proverbs and tongue twisters
- Country and language names
- UDHR, Tower of Babel and Songs
- Chinese and Celtic languages
- Find language tutors in the USA or UK
Constructed scripts
Scripts invented for by visitors to Ommniglot, and for books, films, etc.
- Constructed scripts for natural languages
- Constructed scripts for constructed languages
- Fictional scripts
- Phonetic scripts
- Adapted scripts
- A-Z index
- How to submit a con-script
About languages
Information about languages, language-related articles and videos.
What's new?
New and improved pages on Omniglot.
- New language: Cocopah
- New language: Chilcotin
- New article: Online Tools for your ESL Classroom
- Improved page: Manipuri
- New article: How the "R" in English differs from other languages
- New phrases page: Manipuri
- New phrases page: Extremaduran
- New article: 7 Odd Japanese Words Gleaned from Other Languages
- Improved page: Rusyn phrases
- New language: Sekani
- New birthday song in: Persian (Farsi)
- New recordings: Hindi numbers
- New language: Bari
- New language: Wichita
- New recordings: Venetian phrases
- New phrases page: Lower Sorbian
- More news
