List of constructed scripts

This list of constructed scripts is in alphabetical order. ISO 15924 codes are provided where assigned. This list includes neither shorthand systems nor ciphers of existing scripts.

Script name	ISO 15924	Year created	Creator	Comments (click to sort by category)
Afaka	Afak	1910	Afáka Atumisi	Syllabary used to write the Ndyuka language, an English-based creole of Surinam
Aiha		1985	Ursula K. Le Guin	Alphabet of the fictional Kesh language in her novel Always Coming Home
Armenian	Armn	405–406	Saint Mesrob	Alphabet thought to have been based on Greek
aUI		1962	John W. Weilgart	Language and alphabet attempting to unify sound and meaning
Aurebesh		1993	Stephen Crane	Alphabet originally for Star Wars Miniatures Battles Companion based on glyphs by Joe Johnston, subsequently used for other media in the franchise[1]
Blissymbol	Blis	1949	Charles K. Bliss	Conceived as a non-spoken (soundless), purely ideographic script
Braille	Brai	1821	Louis Braille	Tactile alphabet for the blind using embossed dots; dozens of derived scripts
Canadian Aboriginal syllabics	Cans	1840s	James Evans	Family of abugidas used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and (formerly) Athabaskan language families
Cherokee	Cher	1819	Sequoyah	Syllabary inspired by Latin glyph shapes
Cirth	Cirt	1930s[2]	J. R. R. Tolkien	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 alphabet		2005	Gregg M. Cox	A proposed script for the Kodava language
Cyrillic	Cyrl / Cyrs	ca. 940	Saint Cyril or his students	Alphabet mainly used to write Slavic languages; based primarily on Greek
Deseret	Dsrt	mid-19th century	University of Deseret	A phonemic alphabet designed for the English language
D'ni		1997	Richard A. Watson	Alphabet for the fictional language in the game Riven and its sequels
Duployan shorthand	Dupl	1891	Father Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune	Historically used as the main (non-shorthand) script for Chinook Jargon
Engsvanyáli		1940s	M. A. R. Barker	Abugida used in the Empire of the Petal Throne role-playing game
Eskayan		ca. 1920–1937	Mariano Datahan	Syllabary based on cursive Latin script
Fraser	Lisu	1915	Sara Ba Thaw	Alphabet used to write the Lisu language; improved by James O. Fraser
Gargoyle		1990	Herman Miller	Alphabet for the fictional Gargish language in Ultima VI: The False Prophet
Glagolitic	Glag	862–863	Saints Cyril and Methodius	Historically used to write Slavic languages, before Cyrillic became dominant
HamNoSys		1985	University of Hamburg	A phonetic transcription system for sign languages
Hangul	Hang	1443	Court of King Sejong	Alphabet written in syllable blocks used to write the Korean language
International Phonetic Alphabet	Latn	1888	International Phonetic Association	Regarded as being an extension of the Latin script
Kēlen		1980	Sylvia Sotomayor	Alphabet for a fictional alien language without verbs
Klingon (KLI pIqaD)	Piqd	ca. 1990	Anonymous	Glyphs created for Star Trek: The Next Generation, later sent as a font to the KLI
Lisu syllabary		1924–1930	Ngua-ze-bo	Syllabary of about 800 characters used to write the Lisu language
Night writing		1808	Charles Barbier	Forerunner of Braille; tactile alphabet intended for communication in total darkness
N'Ko	Nkoo	1949	Solomana Kante	Alphabet used to write the Manding languages, including a kind of koine
Phags-pa	Phag	1269	Drogön Chögyal Phagpa	Used historically for the languages in the Yuan sector of the Mongolian Empire
Pollard	Plrd	1936	Sam Pollard	Abugida used to write several minority languages in China
Quikscript		1966	Ronald Kingsley Read	Phonemic alphabet designed to write the English language quickly and compactly
Sarati	Sara	1910s	J. R. R. Tolkien	Precursor of his elven Tengwar script
Shavian	Shaw	ca. 1960	Ronald Kingsley Read	Phonemic alphabet to write the English language; precursor to Quikscript
SignWriting	Sgnw	1974	Valerie Sutton	Proposed system of writing sign languages
Soyombo		1686	Bogdo Zanabazar	Abugida historically used to write the Mongolian language
Stokoe notation		1960	William Stokoe	Proposed system of writing sign languages
Tengwar	Teng	1930s	J. R. R. Tolkien	Elven script used for various languages in his novel The Lord of the Rings
Unifon		mid-1950s	John R. Malone	Phonemic alphabet to write the English language, based on the Latin alphabet
Visible Speech	Visp	1867	Alexander Melville Bell	System of phonetic symbols to represent the position of the speech organs
Scripts designed for a natural spoken language (sort by the Comments column to sort by category)
Scripts designed for a work of fiction
Miscellaneous (special purpose, academic, …)

See also

• Constructed script
• List of writing systems
• ConScript Unicode Registry

References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160419143357/http://www.echostation.com/features/aurebesh.htm
2. Tolkien, C., editor, The Treason of Isengard, The History of Middle-Earth, Houghton Mifflin, 1989