[ languages grouped by writing system ]

The Four Essential Travel Phrases
Translation Index, Grouped by Writing System


Arabic Arabic   Arabic languages (Standard Arabic, Algerian, Baharna, Chadian / Shuwa, Egyptian, Gulf, Hassaniyya, Hejazi, Iraqi / Mesopotamian, Lebanese-Syrian, Libyan / Solaimitian, Moroccan, Palestinian-Jordanian, Sudanese, Tunisian), Avar, Azeri, Balochi dialects (Western), Banjarese, Berber (Tamazight, Tarifit, Tashelhit), Brahui, Dari / Eastern Farsi, Hassaniyya, Indus Kohistani, Kalami / Gawri, Kazakh, Khowar / Chitrali, Kurdish (Bahdini, Kurmanji, Sorani), Kyrgyz, Malay, Maranao, Marwari, Ottoman Turkish, Panjabi, Pashto, Persian / Western Farsi, Seraiki, Shabaki, Sindhi, Tamazight, Tarifit, Tashelhit, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Wakhi, Yakan top
Armenian Armenian (Aybuben)   Armenian dialects top
Avoiuli Avoiuli   Raga / Hano top
Balinese Balinese   Balinese top
Bangla Bangla   Assamese, Bengali / Bangla dialects, Chakma, Chittagonian, Karbi / Mikir, Kokborok, Meitei / Manipuri, classical Sanskrit, Sylheti top
Batak Batak   Karo, Simalungun, Toba top
Blissymbols Blissymbols   Blissymbolics top
Braille Braille   English, German, Welsh top
Burmese/Myanmar Burmese / Myanmar   Burmese/Myanmar, classical Sanskrit, Shan top
Cham Cham   Eastern Cham top
Cherokee Cherokee   Cherokee top
Coptic Coptic   Coptic, Old Nubian top
Cuneiform Cuneiform   Akkadian, Hittite, Ugaritic top
Cyrillic Cyrillic   Abkhaz, Altai, Avar, Azeri, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Cheremis / Mari, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dungan, Erzya, Kabardian, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khanty, Komi, Kumyk, Kurmanji Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lak, Macedonian dialects, Mari, Moksha, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Nenets, Nganasan, Nogai, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetic, Russian (modern and historical), Sami / Saami languages, Selkup (Srednyaya Ob-Ket and Taz dialects), Serbian, Southern Altai, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ubykh, Udmurt / Votyak, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek, Wakhi, Yaghnobi, Yakut, Yukaghir top
Devanagari Devanagari   Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Chhattisgarhi, Fiji Hindi, Gondi, Hindi, Kolami, Konkani, Kutchi, Lambadi / Sugali, Marathi, Marwari, Nepal Bhasa / Newar, Nepali, Pardhan, classical Sanskrit top
Dogri Dogri   Dogri top
Ethiopic Ethiopic   Amharic, Bilen, Ge'ez, Oromo, Tigré, Tigrinya, Xamtanga / Agew top
mxedruli Georgian (Mkhedruli)   Georgian, Mingrelian top
Glagolitic Glagolitic   Old Church Slavonic top
Gothic Gothic   Gothic top
Grantha Grantha   classical Sanskrit top
Greek Greek   Aromanian / Vlach, Arvanitika, Greek (modern and ancient/New Testament Greek), Pontic, Tsakonian top
Gujarati Gujarati   Gujarati, Kutchi, classical Sanskrit top
Gurmukhi Gurmukhi   Panjabi, classical Sanskrit top
Hankul Hankul   Korean top
Hebrew Hebrew   Aramaic, Hebrew (modern, Biblical), Judeo-Portuguese, Ladino / Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish top
Hieroglyphics Hieroglyphics   Ancient Egyptian top
Inuktitut Inuktitut   Eastern Canadian Inuktitut top
Javanese Javanese   Javanese (Solo and Jawa Halus / High Javanese dialects) top
Kaithi Kaithi   Maithili top
Kannada Kannada   Kannada, Konkani, Lambadi / Sugali, classical Sanskrit, Tulu top
Katakana Katakana   Ainu, Japanese top
Khmer Khmer   Cambodian / Khmer, classical Sanskrit top
Kulitan Kulitan   Kapampangan top
Lantsa Lantsa   classical Sanskrit top
Lao Lao   Iu Mien, Lao top
Latin Latin   Abnaki, Aceh, Acholi, Achterhoeks, Afar, Afrikaans dialects, Ainu, Akan, Akeanon, Akha, Albanian languages (Arbëreshë, Arvanitika, Gheg, Literary, Tosk), Allemannisch / Swiss German dialects, Alpine Provençal, Altai, Alur, Antsi, Anuak, Apache, Apma, Aragonese, Arapaho, Aromanian, Assiniboine, Asturian, Ata Manobo, Atlaans, Atta, Australian Kriol, Auvergnat Occitan, Avar, Aymara, Ayta Mag-Antsi, Ayta Mag-Indi, Azeri, Badaga, Bahamas Creole English, Balinese, Balochi dialects (Western), Bambara, Banjarese, Bantoanon, Baoulé, Basque / Euskara, Bassa Sunda / Sundanese, Batak (Karo, Simalungun, Toba), Batavian Malay, Bavarian, Bawean, Belize Crole English, Bemba, Berber (Tamazight, Tarifit, Tashelhit), Betawi Malay, Bikol, Biloxi, Binukid, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Brunei-Kedayan, Buginese / Bugis, Buhinon, Bura, Buryat, Cajun French, Caluyanun, Cameroon Pidgin / Kamtok, Cantabrian, Capeverdean Creoles, Capiznon, Caribbean Hindustani, Catalan dialects, Cebuano, Central Bikol, Central Malay, Central Yup'ik, Chagga, Chakma, Cham (Eastern), Chamorro, Champenois, Chavacano, Chechen, Chiga, Chippewa / Western Ojibwa, Chitumbuka, Chokwe, Chrau, Chuuk, Cockney Rhyming Slang, Comorian, Cook Islands Maori / Rarotongan, Cornish, Corsican, Cree, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Crioulo, Croatian dialects, Cuyonon, Czech dialects, Dakota, Dalecarlian, Dalmatian, Daman Indo-Portuguese, Danish, Dawan / Uab Metô dialects, Dayak Ngaju, Dibabawon Manobo, Digo, Dinka, Dogrib, Dombe, Dong / Kam, Drehu, Drents, Duala, Dunglish, Duri, Dutch dialects, East Miraya Bikol, Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, Ebonics, Elmer Fudd, Emiliano-Romagnolo dialects, English dialects, Eskimo (Central Yup'ik, Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, Kalaallisut/Greenlandic), Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Ewondo, Extremaduran, Fanagalo, Fante, Faroese, Fataluku, Fiji Hindi, Fijian, Filipino / Tagalog, Finnish, Flemish, Fon-Gbe, Forro / Sãotomense, Franco-Provençal, French dialects, French Cree / Michif, Frisian languages (Northern, Western), Friulian, Fula / Adamawa Fulfulde, Fwâi, Ga, Gaétric, Gagauz, Galician, Gallo, Ganda, Garifuna, Gascon Occitan dialects, German dialects, Gorontalo, Greenlandic Inuktitut / Kalaallisut, Gronings, Guaraní, Gullah, Gupapuyngu / Yolngu Matha, Gusii / Kisii, Gutnish / Gotlandic, Guyanese Creole, Haitian Creole French, Hakha Chin, Hano / Raga, Hausa dialects, Hawaiian, Hawaiian Creole English, Haya, Herero / Ochiherero, Higaonon, Hiligaynon, Hiri Motu, Hmar, Hmong, Huasteca Nahuatl, Hungarian, Hunsrik, Iaai, Iban, Ibanag, Ibibio, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Igpay Atinlay, Ikalanga, Ilocano, Ilonggo / Hiligaynon, Indi, Indonesian, Indo-Portuguese, Ingrian, Inlaod Itneg, Inuktitut (Eastern Canadian), Iraqw, Iriga Bicolano, Irish, Isnag, Istriot, Italian dialects, Itawit, Itneg, Iu Mien, Ivatan, Jakartan Malay, Jamaican Creole English, Jamska, Jarai, Jatvingian / Sudovian, Javanese dialects, Jerigonza, Jersey-French, Jingpho, Judeo-Portuguese, Jula / Dyula, Jutish, Kadazandusun, Kalaallisut / Greenlandic, Kalanga / Ikalanga, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kamtok, Kanjobal (Eastern)/ Q'anjob'al, Kansa, Kanuri, Kaonde, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karbi / Mikir, Karo, Kashubian, Kazakh, Kedayan / Brunei-Kedayan, Kekchi, Kemak, Kerinci, Khana, Khasi, Kiga, Kikuyu, kiMbundu / Loanda Mbundu, Kinabalian, Kinaray-a, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati / Gilbertese, kiRundi / Rundi, Kisii, Kituba, Koasati, Koho, Kokborok, Kölsch, Kongo / kiKongo, Konkani, Koya, Krio, Kriol, Kristang, Kumyk, Kupang Malay, Kurmanji Kurdish, Kwanyama / Otjiwambo, Kyrgyz, Labinjonski, Ladin dialects, Ladino, Laiholh, Lakota, Languedocien Occitan, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Lesser Antillean Creole English, Lesser Antillean Creole French, Letemboi, Ligurian dialects, Limburgish dialects, Limousin Occitan, Lingala, Lithuanian dialects, Livonian, Livvi, lolcats, Lombard (Bergamasco di Casirate d'Adda dialect), Lorrain dialects, Louisiana Creole French, Louisiana French, Low Saxon, Lower Sorbian, Lozi, Luba-Kasai, Luhya / Luyia, Luiseño, Lunda, Luo, Luvale, Luxembourgish, Ma'anyan, Maay, Madura, Mag-Antsi, Mag-Indi Ayta, Maguindanaon, Maithili, Makasae, Makassar, Malaccan Creole Portuguese, Malagasy, Malay, Malecite, Maltese, Mam, Mambae, Manado Malay, Mandinka, Manx, Maranao, Marinduque Tagalog, Marquesan, Marshallese, Masbatenyo, Matigsalug, Mauritius Creole / Kreol Morisyen, Maya, Mende, Mesquakie, Michif, Micmac, Mirandese, Miraya Bikol, Mískito, Mizo, Modenese, Modern Gaulish, Montenegrin, Mòoré, Mordvin (Erzya, Moksha), Mushungulu, Muskogee / Creek, Nahuatl (Nahuatl, Huasteca Nahuatl), Nakota / Assiniboine, Naleh / Letemboi, Nama / Damara, Napoletano-Calabrese, Nauruan, Navajo, Na'vi, Naxi, Ndau, Ndebele, Ndonga, Ndyuka, New Zealand Maori, Ngaju, Nias, Nigerian Pidgin English, Niuean, Nones, Norwegian (including Bokmål and Nynorsk), Nuer, Nyanja, Nyoro, Occitan (Alpine Provençal, Auvergnat, Gascon, Languedocien, Limousin, Provençal), Ogoni / Khana, Okinawan, Old Church Slavonic, Olonets Karelian / Livvi, Omaha, O'odham, Oromo, Osage, Oshiwambo / Ndonga, Palauan, Pampangan / Kapampangan, Pamplona Atta, Pangasinan, Papiamentu, Passamaquoddy, Pawi, Pennsylvania German, Penrhyn, Picard / Chtimi / Rouchi dialects, Piemontese, Pijin / Solomons Pidgin, Pingelapese, Pirate English, Plains Cree, Plautdietsch, Pohnpeian, Poitevin, Polish, Ponca, Portuguese dialects, Provençal Occitan, Prussian, Pukapuka, Pular, Q'anjob'al, Q'eqchi', Quechua (Bolivian, Cusco, Ecuadorian), Rade, Raga, Rapa Nui, Redneck, Réunion Creole French, Rinconada Bikol, Romanian, Romansch dialects, Romany, Rongga, Rotokas, Rotuman, Roviana, Rukiga, Rundi, Runglish, Rwanda / Kinyarwanda, Sa, Salar, Sambal, Sami / Saami languages, Samoan, Sango, Sãotomense, Sardinian, Sarnami Hindi, Saterfrisian, Scanian, Scots dialects, Scottish Gaelic, Sedang, Seke / Ske, Selayar, Sentani, Serawai / Central Malay, Serbian, Serer-Sine, Seselwa, Shingazidja Comorian, Shona, Sicilian, Sikaiana, Simalungun, Singlish, Sioux, Slovak dialects, Slovene dialects, The Smurfs, Solomons Pidgin, Somali, Sotho (Northern, Southern), Southern Altai, Sowa, Spanglish, Spanish dialects, Sranan, Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole, Stellingwarfs, Sudovian / Jatvingian, Sukuma, Sumbawa, Sundanese, Surigaonon, Susu, Swabian, Swahili / kiSwahili, Swati / siSwati / Swazi, Swedish dialects, the Muppets' Swedish Chef, Swiss German dialects, Sylheti, Tahitian, Takuu, Tamazight, Tarifit, Tashelhit, Tausug, Temne, Tetela, Tetun, Tiv, Tlingit, Toba, Tok Pisin / New Guinea Pidgin English, Tokelauan, Tongan, Toraja, Trinidad Creole French, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana / Setswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Twents, Twi, Uab Metô dialects, Uduk, Umbundu, Upper Franconian, Upper Saxon, Upper Silesian, Upper Sorbian, Uyghur, Uzbek, Valenciano, Veluws, Venda, Venetian dialects, Veps, Vietnamese, Vilamovian, Virgin Islands Creole English, Vlach / Aromanian, Võro, Waima'a, Wakhi, Walliserdeutsch, Wallisian, Walloon dialects, Walser, Waray, Welsh, Wolof (from Gambia, from Senegal), Wuvulu-Aua, Xhosa, xiTsonga, Yaghnobi, Yakan, Yaqui, Yemba, Yolngu Matha, Yoruba, Yucatan-Mayan / Maya, Zamboangueño, Zarma, Zazaki, Zeeuws, Zhuang, Zo, Zulu dialects top
Latin
Historical variations of the Latin alphabet Historical variations of the Latin alphabet   English (Old English, ...), German (Old High German, ...), Irish, Latin, Middle Dutch, Modern Gaulish, Old French, Old Frisian, Old Italian, Old Norse (Old Gutnish, Old Icelandic, and Old Swedish), Old Occitan / Old Provençal, Old Saxon, Old Spanish, Prussian, Sudovian / Jatvingian top
Lepcha Lepcha   Lepcha top
Limbu Limbu   Limbu top
Lontara Lontara   Buginese / Bugis, Makassar, Selayar top
Mahajani Mahajani   Marwari top
Malayalam Malayalam   Konkani, Malayalam, classical Sanskrit top
Manichean Manichean   Sogdian top
Meitei Meitei Mayek   Meitei / Manipuri top
Modi Modi   Marathi top
Mongolian Classical Mongolian / Manchu   Buryat, Khalkha Mongolian, Manchu top
Ndyuka Ndyuka   Ndyuka top
Newa / Prachalit Newa / Prachalit   Nepal Bhasa / Newar top
Ol Cemet' Ol Cemet'   Santali top
Old Italic alphabets Old Italic alphabets   Oscan, Umbrian top
Oriya Oriya   Gadaba / Gutob, Oriya, classical Sanskrit top
Orkhon Orkhon   Old Turkic top
Osage Osage   Osage top
Osmanya Osmanya   Somali top
Pahawh Hmong Pahawh Hmong   Hmong top
Phags-pa Phags-pa   classical Sanskrit top
Phoenician Phoenician   Phoenician top
Ranjana Ranjana   Nepal Bhasa / Newar, classical Sanskrit top
Runic alphabets Runic alphabets   English from The Hobbit, How to Train Your Dragon, and Ultima, Hungarian, Old Norse (Old Gutnish, Old Icelandic, and Old Swedish) top
Saurashtra Saurashtra   classical Sanskrit top
etc Shorthand   German Unified Shorthand (German using Deutsche Einheitskurzschrift), Gregg Shorthand (English) top
Siddham Siddham   classical Sanskrit top
Sign language Sign language   American Sign Language (ASL) top
Sinhala Sinhala   classical Sanskrit, Sinhala top
Sinograms Sinograms   Cantonese / Yue Chinese, Classical / Literary Chinese, Classical Japanese, Dong / Kam, Gan Chinese, Hakka Chinese, Japanese dialects, Mandarin Chinese / Putonghua (Northern, Southern, and Shaanxi dialects), Min Dong Chinese, Min Nan Chinese (Amoy/Xiamen, Diojiu/Teochew, Shantou, and Taiwanese dialects), Old Japanese, Vietnamese, Wu Chinese (Ningbo and Shanghai dialects), Xiang Chinese, Zhuang top
Syloti Syloti Nagri   Sylheti top
Syriac Syriac   Syriac top
Tamil Tamil   Badaga, classical Sanskrit, Tamil top
Telugu Telugu   Bagata, Gadaba / Gutob, Gondi, Konda-Dora, Kotia / Adivasi Oriya, Kupia / Valmiki, Lambadi / Sugali, Pardhan, classical Sanskrit, Telugu, Yerukula / Kurru top
Thaana Thaana   Dhivehi / Maldivian top
Thai Thai   Iu Mien, classical Sanskrit, Thai top
Tibetan Tibetan   Dzongkha, classical Sanskrit, Tibetan top
Tifinagh Tifinagh   Berber languages: Tamazight, Tarifit, Tashelhit top
Tirhuta Tirhuta   Maithili top
Vai Vai   Vai top
Thaana Yi   Lalo / Western Yi top
etc Modern English using different systems   alternate alphabets (A-tom-tom Code, Celestial, colorAlphabet, Daggers, Deseret, Dscript, Enochian, Ewellic, Grand Alphabet, Hexahue, Magi, Malachim, Rotor Script, Shwa, Theban, Transitus Fluvii, and Visible Speech/Revised Organic Alphabet), IPA: International Phonetic Alphabet, language games (including Pig Latin and Ubbi Dubbi), semaphore flags, Shavian & Quickscript, shorthand, signal flags, spelling reform and innovation (Initial Teaching Alpahabet, Petersonian English, Unifon alphabet), Star Wars (Aurebesh, Jabba's alphabet, Trade Federation Basic), tactile writing systems (Braille, Moon Type), technology (ASCII, EBCDIC, Leet, Morse Code, Palm Pilot, SMS Messaging, typewriter, others), J.R.R. Tolkien's works (Goblin Alphabet, Runes, Tengwar), transcribed/transliterated (into Arabic, Greek, Japanese, Russian, and many, many others) top
Fiction Fictional / constructed scripts  Algilez, Arêndron, Arrows, Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer (Centaurean, Eternity Code, Gnommish), Atlantis, Avorenta, Ayeri, Ayvarith, Cara script (Indonesian, Malay), Dastmen, Deini, Delason, Dingwempi, Futurama, Grand Alphabet (English, German, Russian), Hungarian using ConScripts (Gyorsrovás, Harta, HGV, Tengwar), Hymmnos, Idrani, Interlac, Këble, Korean using ConScripts (Emoel Gugu), Kryptonian, Movinon, Nesusin, Persian/Farsi using ConScripts (Bostani), David Peterson's languages (Epiq, Gweydr, Kamakawi, Njaama, Sathir, Sheli, Sidaan, Zhyler), Shiwi, The Sims, Spocanian, STARGATE's Ancients alphabet, Star Trek (Borg, Klingon, Romulan, Vulcan), Star Wars (Aurebesh, Common Sith, Huttese, Jabba's alphabet, Mandalorian, and Trade Federation Basic), Thai using ConScripts (Tai Anphabet), tinta Ritnasas, J.R.R. Tolkien's works (Goblin Alphabet, Runes, Tengwar for Quenya and Sindarin), Ultima game series (Britannian Runes, Gargish Alphabet, Ophidian Alphabet), Uniscript, Verdurian languages (Axunašin, Barakhinei, Ismaîn, Verdurian), Visitor alphabet, Ygyde

See the regional index for a full list of constructed languages  
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