Carian alphabets

Short description: Greek-derived alphabets used to write the Carian language of Anatolia

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Carian

Inscription in Carian of the name 𐊨𐊣𐊠𐊦𐊹𐊸, qlaλiś[1]

Type|

Alphabet

Languages| Carian language

Time period

| 7th to 1st centuries BCE

Parent systems

Egyptian hieroglyphs[2]

* Proto-Sinaitic
* Phoenician
* Greek alphabet ? [3][4][5]
* Carian

Sister systems

| Lycian, Lydian, Phrygian
Direction| Left-to-right
ISO 15924| `Cari, 201`

Unicode alias

| Carian

Unicode range

| U+102A0-U+102DF
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The Carian alphabets are a number of regional scripts that were used to write the extinct Carian language of western Anatolia. They consist of some 30 alphabetic letters, with several geographic variants in Caria and a homogeneous variant attested from the Nile delta, where Carian mercenaries fought for the Egyptian pharaohs. They were written left-to-right in Caria (apart from the Carian–Lydian city of Tralleis) and right-to-left in Egypt.

Carian was deciphered primarily through Egyptian–Carian bilingual tomb inscriptions, starting with John Ray in 1981; previously only a few sound values and the alphabetic nature of the script had been demonstrated. The readings of Ray and subsequent scholars were largely confirmed with a Carian–Greek bilingual inscription discovered in Kaunos in 1996, which for the first time verified personal names, but the identification of many letters remains provisional and debated, and a few letters are wholly unknown.

The Carian alphabet resembles the Greek alphabet, but the exact Greek variant from which it could have originated has not yet been identified. The main reason for this is that some of the Greek letters have different sound values in Carian.[5] Two hypotheses have been suggested to explain this. The first is that the Greek letters were randomly attributed to phonetic values; though some letters retained their Greek value. The second, proposed by Ignacio J. Adiego in his book The Carian Language,[6]: 115 is "that the Carian alphabet underwent a strong process of cursivisation, dramatically changing the form of many letters. At a certain point this graphic system underwent a change to 'capital' letters, for which the Greek capital letters were used as models - but now only from a formal point of view, disregarding their phonetic values."[4]

## Contents

* 1 Scripts
* 2 Origin
* 3 Decipherment
* 4 Unicode
* 5 See also
* 6 Notes
* 7 References

## Scripts

There is a range of graphic variation between cities in Caria, some of which are extreme enough to have separate Unicode characters.[lower-alpha 1] The Kaunos alphabet is thought to be complete. There may be other letters in Egyptian cities outside Memphis, but they need to be confirmed. There is considerable geographical variation in all letters, especially the representation of the lateral phonemes l and λ.[7] The letters with identified values in the various cities are as follows:[8]

Hyllarima | Euromos | Mylasa | Stratonicea | Kildara  | Sinuri | Kaunos | Iasos | Memphis | transl.[9] | IPA[10] | possible Greek origin

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𐊠 | 𐊠 | 𐊠 | 𐊠  | Ϡ  | Ϡ | 𐊠 | 𐊠 𐌀 | 𐊠 | a | /a/ | Α
𐊡 |  | « ? | 𐋉[lower-alpha 2] |  |  | 𐋌 𐋍  | 𐋊  | 𐋊 | β | /ᵐb/ | Not a Greek value; perhaps a ligature of Carian 𐊬𐊬. 𐊡 directly from Greek Β.
𐊢 (<) | 𐊢 (Ϲ) | 𐊢 (<) | 𐊢 (Ϲ) | 𐊢 (Ϲ)  | 𐊢 (Ϲ) | 𐊢 (Ϲ) |  | 𐊢 (< Ϲ) | d | /ð/? | Δ D
𐋃 | 𐋃 | <> | 𐊣 | 𐋃  | 𐊣 | 𐊣 | 𐊣 | 𐊣 | l | /l~ɾ/? | Λ
𐊤 | 𐊤 | 𐋐 | 𐊤 | 𐋈  | 𐋈 | 𐊤 | 𐊤 𐋐? | 𐊤 Ε | y | /y/ | Perhaps a modified Ϝ.
8px | 8px | 8px | 8px | 8px  | 8px | 𐊥 | 8px 𐊥 | 𐊥 | r | /r/ | Ρ
𐋎 𐊣 | 𐊣  | 𐊣  | 𐊦 | 𐊦  | 𐊦 | 𐋏 | 𐊦 | 𐊦 | λ | /lː~ld/? | Not a Greek value. 𐋎 from Λ plus diacritic, others not Greek.
ʘ | ʘ | ʘ | ʘ | ʘ 𐊨?  | ʘ 𐊨? | 𐊨 | 𐊨 ʘ | 𐊨 | q | /kʷ/ | Ϙ
Λ | Λ | Λ |  | Λ 𐊬  | 𐊩 𐊬 | Γ | Λ | 𐊬 Λ | b | /β/? | 𐅃[lower-alpha 3]
𐊪 | 𐊪 | 𐊪 | 𐊪 | 𐊪 Ͷ  | 𐊪 Ͷ | Ͷ | 𐊪 | 𐊪 Ͷ | m | /m/ | 𐌌[lower-alpha 4]
𐊫 | 𐊫 | 𐊫 | 𐊫 | 𐊫  | 𐊫 | 𐊫 | 𐊫 | 𐊫 | o | /o/ | Ο
𐊭 | 𐊭 | 𐊭 | 𐊭 | 𐊭  | 𐊭 | 𐌓 | 𐊭 | 𐊭 | t | /t/ | Τ
𐤭 | 𐤭 |  | 𐤭 | 𐤭 𐌓  | 𐤭 𐌓 | 𐊯 | 𐤭 𐤧 𐌃 | 𐊮 Ϸ | š | /ʃ/ | Not a Greek value. Perhaps from Ͳ sampi?
𐊰 | 𐊰 | 𐊰 | 𐊰 | 𐊰  | 𐊰 | 𐊰 | 𐊰 | 𐊰 | s | /s/ | Ϻ
|  |  | 𐊱 | 𐊱  | 𐊱 | 𐊱 |  | 𐊱 | ?  | ? |
𐊲 | 𐊲 | 𐊲 | 𐊲 | 𐊲 V  | 𐊲 V | 𐊲 | 𐊲 V | V 𐊲 | u | /u/ | Υ /u/
𐊳 |  |  | 𐊳 | 𐊳  | 𐊳 | 𐊳 |  |  | ñ | /n̩/ |
| 𐊴 | 𐊴 | 𐊛 | 𐊴  | 𐊴 | 𐊴 | 𐊴 𐊛 | 𐊴 𐊛 | k̂ | /c/ | Not a Greek value. Maybe a modification of Κ, Χ, or 𐊨.
𐊵 | 𐊵 𐊜 | 𐊵 | 𐊵 | 𐊵 𐊜  | 𐊵 𐊜 | 𐊵 | 𐊵 | 𐊜 𐊵 | n | /n/ | 𐌍[lower-alpha 5]
𐊷 |  | 𐊷 | 𐊷 | 𐊷  | 𐊷 | 𐊷 | 𐊷 | 𐊷 | p | /p/ | Β[lower-alpha 6]
𐊸 | 𐊸 | 𐊸 | 𐊸 | 𐊸  | 𐊸 | Θ | 𐊸 | 𐊸 Θ | ś | /ç/? | Not a Greek value. Perhaps from Ͳ sampi?
𝈣 | 𐊹- | ⊲- | 𐊮- | 𐤧- | 𐤧- | 𐊹 | 𐊹 | 𐊹 | i | /i/ | Ε, ΕΙ, or 𐌇.[11]
𐋏 | 𐋏 | 𐋏 | 𐊺 | 𐊺  | 𐊺 | 𐊺 | 𐊺 | 𐊺 | e | /e/ | Η, 𐌇
𐊽 | 𐊼 𐊽 | 𐊼 | 𐊽 | 𐊼  | 𐊼 | 𐊼 | 𐊼 | 𐊼𐊽 | k | /k/ | Perhaps Ψ (locally /kʰ/) rather than Κ.
𐊾 | 𐊾 | 𐊾 | 𐊾 | 𐊾  | 𐊾 | 𐊾 | 𐊾 | 𐊾 | δ | /ⁿd/ | Not a Greek value. Perhaps a ligature of ΔΔ.
|  |  |  |  |  | 𐋁?[lower-alpha 7] | 𐋁 | 𐋀 | γ | /ᵑkʷ/? | Not a Greek value.
|  |  |  |  |  | 𐋂 |  | 𐋂 | z | /t͡s/ or /st/ | Not a Greek value?
|  |  |  | 𐋄  | 𐋄 | 𐋄 |  |  | ŋ | /ᵑk/ | Not a Greek value. Perhaps a ligature of ΓΓ?
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 𐊻 | ý | /ɥ/ | Not a Greek value; perhaps a modification of Carian 𐊺?
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 𐊿 Ш | w | /w/ | Ϝ /w/
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 𐋅 𐊑 | j | /j/ | Perhaps related to Phrygian /j/, 𝈿 ~ 𐌔
|  |  |  |  |  | 𐋆 |  |  | ? |  |
|  |  | 𐋃  |  |  |  |  | 𐋉 | ŕ, ĺ[7] | /rʲ/? | Used in Egypt for Greek ρρ.
𐋇 |  |  |  |  |  | 𐊶?[lower-alpha 8] |  | 𐋇 | τ | /t͡ʃ/ | Not a Greek value. Perhaps from Ͳ sampi?

## Origin

The Carian scripts, which have a common origin, have long puzzled scholars. Most of the letters resemble letters of the Greek alphabet, but their sound values are generally unrelated to the values of the Greek letters. This is unusual among the alphabets of Asia Minor, which generally approximate the Greek alphabet fairly well, both in sound and shape, apart from sounds which had no equivalent in Greek. However, the Carian sound values are not completely disconnected: 𐊠 /a/ (Greek Α), 𐊫 /o/ (Greek Ο), 𐊰 /s/ (Greek Ϻ san), and 𐊲 /u/ (Greek Υ) are as close to Greek as any Anatolian alphabet, and 𐊷, which resembles Greek Β, has the similar sound /p/, which it shares with Greek-derived Lydian 𐤡.

Ignacio J. Adiego, in his book The Carian Language, therefore suggests that the original Carian script was adopted from cursive Greek, and that it was later restructured, perhaps for monumental inscription, by imitating the form of the most graphically similar Greek print letters without considering their phonetic values.[6]: 115 Thus a /t/, which in its cursive form may have had a curved top, was modeled after Greek qoppa (Ϙ) rather than its ancestral tau (Τ) to become 𐊭. Carian /m/, from archaic Greek 𐌌, would have been simplified and was therefore closer in shape to Greek Ν than Μ when it was remodeled as 𐊪. Indeed, many of the regional variants of Carian letters parallel Greek variants: 𐊥 8px are common graphic variants of digamma, 𐊨 ʘ of theta, 𐊬 Λ of both gamma and lambda, 𐌓 𐊯 𐌃 of rho, 𐊵 𐊜 of phi, 𐊴 𐊛 of chi, 𐊲 V of upsilon, and 𐋏 𐊺 parallel Η 𐌇 eta. This could also explain why one of the rarest letters, 𐊱, has the form of one of the most common Greek letters.[12] However, no such proto-Carian cursive script is attested, so these etymologies are speculative.

Further developments occurred within each script; in Kaunos, for example, it would seem that 𐊮 /š/ and 𐊭 /t/ both came to resemble a Latin P, and so were distinguished with an extra line in one: 𐌓 /t/, 𐊯 /š/.

## Decipherment

Limestone stela depicting a false door, cornice above. There are Carian inscriptions. Late Period. From Saqqara, H5-873, Egypt. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London

Numerous attempts at deciphering the Carian inscriptions were made during the 20th century. After World War II, most of the known Carian inscriptions were collected and published, aiding attempts to decipher them.

In the 1960s, Russian researcher Vitaly Shevoroshkin showed that earlier assumptions that the script was a syllabic or semisyllabic writing system were false, instead demonstrating that Carian was alphabetically written. However, he took the values of letters resembling those of the Greek alphabet for granted, which proved to be unfounded.[9]

Other researchers of Carian were H. Stoltenberg, O. Masson, Yuri Otkupshchikov, P. Meriggi (1966), and R. Gusmani (1975), but their work was not widely accepted. Stoltenberg, like most others, generally attributed Greek values to Carian symbols.[13]

In 1972, Egyptologist K. Zauzich investigated bilingual texts in Carian and Egyptian (what became known as the 'Egyptian approach'). This was an important step in decipherment and produced good results.[14][clarification needed] This method was further developed by T. Kowalski in 1975.[15][clarification needed]

British Egyptologist John D. Ray apparently worked independently from Kowalski, but produced similar results (1981, 1983). He used Carian–Egyptian bilingual inscriptions that had been neglected until then. Ray's contributions included the reading of the name Psammetichus (Egyptian Pharaoh) in Carian.

The radically different values that Ray assigned to the letters were initially met with scepticism. Ignasi-Xavier Adiego, along with Diether Schürr, started to contribute to the project in the early 1990s. In his 1993 book Studia Carica, Adiego offered the decipherment values for letters that are now known as the ‘Ray-Schürr-Adiego system’. This system now gained wider acceptance. The discovery of a new bilingual inscription in 1996 (the Kaunos Carian-Greek bilingual inscription) confirmed the essential validity of their decipherment.

## Unicode

Main article: Carian (Unicode block)

Carian was added to the Unicode Standard in April, 2008 with the release of version 5.1. It is encoded in Plane 1 (Supplementary Multilingual Plane).

The Unicode block for Carian is U+102A0-U+102DF:

Template:Unicode chart Carian

𐊡𐋊𐋋𐋌𐋍 are graphic variants, as are 𐊤𐋈𐋐, 𐋎𐊦𐋏, 𐊺𐋏, 𐊼𐊽, 𐋂𐋃, 𐋁𐋀, and possibly 𐋇𐊶.

A Carian keyboard is available for use with Keyman.[16]

## See also

* Alphabets of Asia Minor

## Notes

1. ↑ Some of the others, such as Λ, 𐤭, 𝈣, ʘ, Ϲ, Ͷ, 𐊑, Ш, Ϸ, have been filled in below with similar characters from other Unicode ranges.
2. ↑ Resembles 6̨ or G̨
3. ↑ Archaic form of Β, for example in Crete
4. ↑ Archaic form of Μ
5. ↑ Archaic form of Ν
6. ↑ Compare Lydian 𐤡, which also has the value /p/.
7. ↑ if 𐋁 is equivalent to 𐋀
8. ↑ if 𐊶 is equivalent to 𐋇

## References

*   * Melchert, H. Craig (2008). "Carian". in Woodard, Roger D.. The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor. Cambridge University Press. pp. 64–68. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511486845.010. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/ancient-languages-of-asia-minor/carian/674B0D8B23AFF04C0080FA41571764B3.
* Davies, Anna Morpurgo (2003). "Decipherment". in Frawley, William J.. International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2nd ed.). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 421. https://archive.org/details/internationalenc0000unse_s8h7/. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
* Everson, Michael (2006-01-12). "Proposal to encode the Carian script in the SMP of the UCS." Contains many useful illustrations and tables. https://web.archive.org/web/20250910090046/https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05386-n3020-carian.pdf
* Schürr, Diether, "Zur Bestimmung der Lautwerte des karischen Alphabets 1971-1991", Kadmos 31:127-156 (1992).
* Swiggers & Jenniges, in: P.T. Daniels & W. Bright (eds.), The World's Writing Systems (New York/Oxford, 1996), pp. 285–286.
* Vidal M.C. "European Alphabets, Ancient Classical", in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., 2006.

1. ↑ Palaeolexicon. "The Carian word qlaλiś". http://www.palaeolexicon.com/ShowWord.aspx?Id=17767.
2. ↑ Himelfarb, Elizabeth J. "First Alphabet Found in Egypt", Archaeology 53, Issue 1 (Jan./Feb. 2000): 21.
3. ↑ Cross, Frank Moore (2018-08-14) (in en). Leaves from an Epigrapher's Notebook: Collected Papers in Hebrew and West Semitic Palaeography and Epigraphy. BRILL. p. 58. ISBN 978-90-04-36988-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=wN6mDwAAQBAJ.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Waal, Willemijn (2020). "Mother or sister? Rethinking the origins of the Greek alphabet and its relation to the other ‘western’ alphabets". in Boyes, Philip J. (pdf). Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets. Oxbow Books. pp. 115. ISBN 978-1-78925-092-3. https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e6ef644f-f9a9-4a51-ae07-7c2d6b63efd5/. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "ScriptSource - Carian". https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Cari. "Visually, the letters bear a close resemblance to Greek letters. Decipherment was initially attempted on the assumption that those letters which looked like Greek represented the same sounds as their closest visual Greek equivalents. However it has since been established that the phonetic values of the two scripts are very different. For example the theta θ symbol represents 'th' in Greek but ‘q’ in Carian. Carian was generally written from left to right, although Egyptian writers wrote primarily from right to left. It was written without spaces between words."
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Adiego, Ignacio J.. Chatty, Dawn. ed. The Carian Language. Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1, The Near and Middle East; Volume 86 (illustrated ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL. December 2006. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004152816.i-526.2. ISBN 9789004152816. https://books.google.com/books?id=alQqw2IxJO0C. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lajara, Ignasi-Xavier Adiego (January 2018). "A Kingdom for a Carian Letter" (in en) (PDF). Barcino Monographica Orientialia 12. https://www.academia.edu/41944038. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
8. ↑ Adiego 2007:207ff
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ignacio-Javier Adiego Lajara, The Carian Language. Volume 86 of Handbook of Oriental Studies. BRILL, 2006 ISBN 9004152814 p179ff
10. ↑ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2009). "Studies in Lycian and Carian Phonology and Morphology" (in en). Kadmos 47 (1–2). doi:10.1515/KADMOS.2008.011. ISSN 0022-7498. https://www.academia.edu/345130.
11. ↑ Archaic form of Η
12. ↑ Perhaps coincidentally, 𐊮 /š/ resembles Ϸ (sho), which was used for /š/ in the Greek-derived Bactrian alphabet.
13. ↑ Stoltenberg, H. L. (1958a) "Neue Lesung der karischen Schrift", Die Sprache 4, 139–151
14. ↑ Adiego Lajara, Ignacio-Javier (2007). The Carian language. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East. Leiden ; Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15281-6.
15. ↑ THOMAS W. KOWALSKI (1975), LETTRES CARIENNES: ESSAI DE DECHIFFREMENT DE L’ECRITURE CARIENNE Kadmos. Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 73–93, DOI 10.1515/kadm.1975.14.1.73
16. ↑ "Carian keyboard". SIL International. https://keyman.com/keyboards/carian. Retrieved 2023-03-09.

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Other logo-syllabic|

* Anatolian
* Bagam
* Cretan
* Isthmian
* Maya
* Proto-Elamite
* Yi (Classical)

Logo-consonantal|

* Demotic
* Hieratic
* Hieroglyphs

Numerals|

* Hindu-Arabic
* Abjad
* Attic (Greek)
* Muisca
* Roman

Semi-syllabaries

| Full|

* Celtiberian
* Northeastern Iberian
* Southeastern Iberian
* Khom

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Redundant|

* Espanca
* Pahawh Hmong
* Khitan small script
* Southwest Paleohispanic
* Zhuyin fuhao

Somacheirograms

* ASLwrite
* SignWriting
* si5s
* Stokoe Notation

Syllabaries

* Afaka
* Bamum
* Bété
* Byblos
* Canadian Aboriginal
* Cherokee
* Cypriot
* Cypro-Minoan
* Ditema tsa Dinoko
* Eskayan
* Geba
* Great Lakes Algonquian
* Iban
* Japanese
* Hiragana
* Katakana
* Man'yōgana
* Hentaigana
* Sogana
* Jindai moji
* Kikakui
* Kpelle
* Linear B
* Linear Elamite
* Lisu
* Loma
* Nüshu
* Nwagu Aneke script
* Old Persian Cuneiform
* Sumerian
* Vai
* Woleai
* Yi (Modern)
* Yugtun

* v
* t
* e

Braille ⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑

Braille cell|

* 1829 braille
* International uniformity
* ASCII braille
* Unicode braille patterns

Braille scripts|

| French-ordered scripts
(see for more)|

* Albanian
* Amharic
* Arabic
* Armenian
* Azerbaijani
* Belarusian
* Bharati
* Devanagari (Hindi / Marathi / Nepali)
* Bengali
* Punjabi
* Sinhala
* Tamil
* Urdu
* etc.
* Bulgarian
* Burmese
* Cambodian
* Cantonese
* Catalan
* Chinese (Mandarin, mainland)
* Czech
* Dutch
* Dzongkha (Bhutanese)
* English (Unified English)
* Esperanto
* Estonian
* Faroese
* French
* Georgian
* German
* Ghanaian
* Greek
* Guarani
* Hawaiian
* Hebrew
* Hungarian
* Icelandic
* Inuktitut (reassigned vowels)
* Iñupiaq
* IPA
* Irish
* Italian
* Kazakh
* Kyrgyz
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Maltese
* Mongolian
* Māori
* Navajo
* Nigerian
* Northern Sami
* Persian
* Philippine
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Romanian
* Russian
* Samoan
* Scandinavian
* Slovak
* South African
* Spanish
* Tatar
* Taiwanese Mandarin (largely reassigned)
* Thai & Lao (Japanese vowels)
* Tibetan
* Turkish
* Ukrainian
* Vietnamese
* Welsh
* Yugoslav

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Reordered scripts|

* Algerian Braille (obsolete)

Frequency-based scripts|

* American Braille (obsolete)

Independent scripts|

* Japanese
* Korean
* Two-Cell Chinese

Eight-dot scripts|

* Luxembourgish
* Kanji
* Gardner–Salinas braille codes (GS8)

Symbols in braille|

* Braille music
* Canadian currency marks
* Computer Braille Code
* Gardner–Salinas braille codes (science; GS8/GS6)
* International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
* Nemeth braille code

Braille technology|

* Braille e-book
* Braille embosser
* Braille translator
* Braille watch
* Mountbatten Brailler
* Optical braille recognition
* Perforation
* Perkins Brailler
* Refreshable braille display
* Slate and stylus
* Braigo

Persons|

* Louis Braille
* Charles Barbier
* Valentin Haüy
* Thakur Vishva Narain Singh
* Sabriye Tenberken
* William Bell Wait

Organisations|

* Braille Institute of America
* Braille Without Borders
* Japan Braille Library
* National Braille Association
* Blindness organizations
* Schools for the blind
* American Printing House for the Blind

Other tactile alphabets|

* Decapoint
* Moon type
* New York Point
* Night writing
* Vibratese

Related topics|

* Accessible publishing
* Braille literacy
* RoboBraille

* v
* t
* e

Electronic writing systems

* Emoticons
* Emoji
* iConji
* Leet
* Unicode

* v
* t
* e

Internet slang dialects

* 3arabizi
* Alay (Indonesia)
* Denglisch
* Doge
* DoggoLingo
* Fingilish (Persian)
* Greeklish
* Gyaru-moji (Japan)
* Jejemon (Philippines)
* Leet ("1337")
* Lolspeak / LOLspeak / Kitteh
* Martian language (Chinese)
* Miguxês (Portuguese)
* O RLY?
* Padonkaffsky jargon (Russian)
* Translit
* Volapuk

* See also English internet slang (at Wiktionary)
* SMS language

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