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A guide to all the wonderful and interesting information about writing systems
and languages you can find on Omniglot.
Contents
Writing systems |
Constructed scripts |
Languages |
Language learning |
Multilingual pages |
Useful phrases
Articles |
Book store |
Links |
FAQs |
Gallery |
Puzzles |
News |
Downloads |
Miscellaneous |
My other sites
Information about over 150 different writing systems. Each page contains an
illustration of a writing system; details of its origin, usage, notable features
and the language(s) written with it; a sample text, and useful links.
This section is divided as follows:
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Alphabets and other writing systems invented by visitors to this site,
and that appear in books, TV programmes, films and computer games.
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Details of many different languages, including their pronunciation, usage, status and sample texts.
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A collection of advice, suggestions, tips and techniques for learning languages.
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A brief introduction to Unicode, how to type accented letters and other special
characters and a number of pages designed to demonstrate Unicode:
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A collection of useful phrases suitable for a variety of situations in many
different languages with sound files for quite a few of them.
Greetings and small talk
- Welcome,
- Hello,
- Good morning,
- Good afternoon,
- Good evening,
- Good night,
- How are you?,
- Long time no see,
- Please,
- Thank you,
- Excuse me,
- Sorry,
- Yes, No,
- Maybe,
- Goodbye,
- Bon voyage
Getting to know people
Language difficulties
- Do you understand?,
- I understand,
- I don't understand,
- Please say that again,
- Please speak more slowly,
- Please write it down,
- Do you speak English?,
- Do you speak ...?,
- Do you speak a language other than [your own]?,
- Speak to me in ...,
- How do you say ...?,
- I don't know
Difficult situations
Special occasions
Other phrases
- Good luck,
- Cheers!,
- Have a nice day,
- Have a nice weekend,
- Bon appetit,
- How much is this?,
- Would you like to dance?,
- Do you come here often?,
- Where's the toilet?,
- Get well soon,
- I miss you,
- I love you,
- This gentleman/lady will pay for everything,
- One language is never enough
The phrase finder enables you to view the useful phrases in any combination of two languages.
The phrases are available in over 300 different languages.
- Weather words,
- Family words,
- Terms of endearment,
- Idioms,
- Tongue twisters,
- Proverbs and sayings,
- Signs,
- Compass directions,
- Names of the seven dwarfs,
- Zodiac signs,
- Computer parts,
- Animal sounds
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Articles about language learning, languages, and related topics.
Writing systems |
Language and language learning |
Motivation |
Being and becoming bilingual |
Chinese |
English |
French |
German |
Greek |
Hebrew |
Indonesian |
Italian |
Latin |
Portuguese |
Spanish |
Other languages |
Minority and endangered languages |
Reviews of language courses and books |
Teaching languages |
Language and culture |
Particular languages:
Translation and interpreting |
Multilingual websites, databases and coding |
History |
Travel |
Food |
Spoof articles
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A collection of books about writing, language, linguistics and
related topics gathered together in one place for your convenience.
By buying something here you'll be helping to support this site.
Writing systems, written language, calligraphy and reading
Writing systems,
Ancient Egyptian,
Arabic,
Chinese,
Greek,
Hebrew,
Mayan,
Ogham,
Runes,
Shorthand,
Numbers and numerals,
Calligraphy,
Punctuation,
Reading
Language and languages
Origins of language,
Language and languages,
Learning languages,
Idioms,
Language extinction,
Bilingualism / Multilingualism,
Algonquian languages,
Celtic languages,
English,
Germanic languages,
Romance languages,
Slavic languages,
Turkic languages,
Constructed languages
Linguistics
Linguistics,
Phonetics & Phonology,
Paleolinguistics
Livres au sujet de langage et linguistique (en français)
Language learning materials
Afrikaans,
Albanian,
Amharic,
Arabic,
Azerbaijani,
Balinese,
Basque,
Bengali,
Bosnian,
Breton,
Bulgarian,
Burmese/Myanmar,
Cambodian,
Cantonese,
Catalan,
Cherokee,
Chinese,
Cornish,
Cree,
Croatian,
Czech,
Danish,
Dari,
Dutch,
Estonian,
Finnish,
French,
Georgian,
German,
Gothic,
Greek (Modern),
Gujarati,
Hawaiian,
Hebrew,
Hindi,
Hmong,
Hokkien,
Hungarian,
Icelandic,
Indonesian,
Irish (Gaelic),
Italian,
Japanese,
Javanese,
Kazakh,
Korean,
Kurdish,
Kyrgyz,
Lao,
Latin,
Latvian,
Lithuanian,
Macedonian,
Malayalam,
Maltese,
Mandarin Chinese,
Manx (Gaelic),
Māori,
Mayan,
Mongolian,
Nahuatl,
Norwegian,
Occitan,
Old Church Slavonic,
Old English,
Old Norse,
Pashto,
Persian/Farsi,
Polish,
Portuguese,
Punjabi,
Rapa Nui,
Romanian,
Russian,
Samoan,
Scottish Gaelic,
Scots,
Serbian,
Shanghainese,
Sicilian,
Sindarin,
Sinhala,
Sioux (Lakota/Dakota),
Slovak,
Slovenian,
Somali,
Sorbian,
Spanish,
Swahili,
Swedish,
Tagalog,
Taiwanese,
Tajik,
Tamil,
Thai,
Tibetan,
Turkish,
Ukrainian,
Urdu,
Uyghur,
Uzbek,
Vietnamese,
Welsh,
Xhosa,
Yiddish,
Yoruba,
Zulu
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A collection of links to sites containing information about
writing, language and related topics.
Links for individual languages
Ancient Egyptian |
Arabic |
Celtic languages |
Chinese |
English |
French |
German |
Greek |
Hebrew |
Irish |
Italian |
Japanese |
Korean |
Portuguese |
Russian |
Scottish Gaelic |
Spanish |
Welsh |
Tolkien's languages and alphabets
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Answers to the questions I receive most often. Please read this page
before contacting me.
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Gallery of language and writing-related art sent in by visitors to this site.
If you would like to contribute to this section, please contact me.
Questions submitted by visitors to this site which I'm unable to answer.
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Announcements of new pages/sections and significant improvements to
existing pages. Also includes occasional links to writing and
language-related news on other sites.
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Downloads
Fonts for some of the constructed
writing systems on this site.
Script charts - the Excel
spreadsheets I use to produce the alphabet and pronunciation charts.
Audio recordings -
a list of some of the sound files available for download on this site,
including collections of useful phrases in various phrases.
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Miscellaneous pages
Details of the books used as sources of information for this site.
A list of the fonts used on this site.
Details of how many visitors Omniglot gets.
Information about Omniglot and its creator.
About this site |
Omniglot - a potted history |
About me |
My language learning adventures |
My singing adventures |
My songs |
My tunes |
My musical adventures |
My juggling adventures
A few photos of me, my friends, and places I've visted and lived in.
How to contact me.
Articles and podcasts about Omniglot and interviews with its
founder, Simon Ager.
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My other sites
Offshoots of Omniglot include:
- Omniglot blog, where I muse about interesting words and phrases I encounter, language learning, language-related news stories, and other language-related stuff. At first I tried to post something everyday, but currently post maybe 3 or 4 times a week. Every Sunday I post a language quiz, which usually features a recording in a mystery language that I invite readers to identify.
- Omniglot forum - a place to discuss languages, writing systems, conlangs and related topics
- Omniglot Facebook fan club - a Facebook group with thousands of members who talk about all sorts of language-related things. Also a good place to post translation requests.
- Omniglot Youtube channel - a collection of videos which give me a chance to practise use my languages, to be silly, and to tell stories.
- Omniglot on Twitter - the latest up-dates on Omniglot.com, plus random sentences in languages I'm learning
- Omniglot on Google+ - the latest up-dates on Omniglot.com, plus Les Mots de la Semaine (new and interesting words that come up in the French Conversation Group I go to, in French, English and Welsh)
- Multilingual musings, my blog on which I sometimes practise using languages I'm learning. I also post interesting words and phrases that come up in the French conversation group, and occasionally from the Bangor Language Café. The words from the French group are posted with English and Welsh equivalents.
- Omniglot Chinese app - an iPhone/Andriod app which helps you learn basic Chinese characters developed by Leafcutter Studies and Omniglot
- My songs on SoundCloud - a collection of songs, some silly, some serious, that I've written. Most are in English, but a few are partly in other languages.
- My photos on Flickr - photos from some of my travels in foreign parts, and in the UK.
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Please note
Omniglot is not affiliated with any academic or other institution. It
is the creation of one man, Simon Ager, with
corrections, suggestions and additional material provided by visitors.
It started way back in 1998 as a hobby which I worked on in my spare time,
but since June 2008 I have been working on it full-time and it is now my
main source of income.
While I make every effort to ensure that the information is accurate,
there will inevitably be some errors and mistakes. If you spot any,
please contact me. Your input is always
welcome and very much appreciated.
If you would like to use any of the information or images from this
site, please contact me.
All the material is available to you free of charge. I also
do my best to answer your questions and provide advice on a
range of writing and language-related topics.
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If you need to type in many different languages, the Q International Keyboard can help. It enables you to type almost any language that uses the Latin, Cyrillic or Greek alphabets, and is free.
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