Write in Ancient Scripts

Twelve languages of the past in their own scripts, from the cuneiform of Sumer to the runes of the Vikings. Every key shows a sign with its value and how it sounds. Write a word or your name, then save it as a picture, copy it or share it.

Write in Ancient Egyptian

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Latin, Nahuatl, Swahili and Quechua, the four other languages with profiles, have long been written in the Latin alphabet, the letters of English, so they have no keyboard of their own here. The signs of the rarer scripts are drawn with the Noto fonts (SIL Open Font License); sign values follow the standard lists (Borger for cuneiform, Gardiner for hieroglyphs, Tekin for Old Turkic, IAST for Sanskrit) and the readings of Chinese characters the Unicode Unihan database.