![[ jump to a language at random ]](../images/randomlanguagejump.gif){kind=small}
The "Shavian Proposed British Alphabet" was created in the 1950s by Kingsley Reed as part of a £500 competition financed by a trust set up under George Bernard Shaw's will.
Mr. Reed went on to revise his alphabet into a more cursive form called "Quickscript" or "Quikscript".
![[English using the Shavian Alphabet]](englishusingshavian1.gif)
![[English using the Quickscript Alphabet]](englishusingshavian2.gif)
Writing system information for Shavian at Wikipedia
Writing system information for Quickscript at Omniglot
![[ Travel Phrases home page ]](../images/fournavhomelink.gif) |
![[ translations indexed alphabetically ]](../images/fournavalphalink.gif) |
![[ translations indexed by region ]](../images/fournavregionlink.gif) |
![[ translations grouped by writing system ]](../images/fournavwritinglink.gif) |
![[ search for a language or country ]](../images/fournavsearchlink.gif) |
![[ jump to a language at random ]](../images/fournavrandomlink.gif) |
| The four essential travel phrases in English: 1) Where is my room? 2) Where is the beach? 3) Where is the bar? 4) Don't touch me there! |
Do you have a language or dialect to add? Did I get something wrong? Please let me know... 
|