Another episode of the culture series on the web, close to useless, but fun, which is so pleasant to read and try. Writing a word like your name in different ways, with different styles or alphabets, in reality, is not that it is really useless because however it is an interesting curiosity that can become an idea for a brand, a tattoo or any sign with which there you want to identify.
Your name or any other word can therefore be written in many languages, modern or ancient, near or far, which follow different alphabets and writing styles but it can also be written with signs created imaginatively in some famous films or in languages made of symbols .
So let's see the best websites to see how to write a name in another language or with other symbols or styles.
1) Google Transliteration is the tool provided by Google to see how to write any word or phrase in a language that uses an alphabet other than the Latin one.
There are many languages available all over the world, among which the most important are Russian, Greek, Arabic, Indian, Serbian and then also some ancient languages such as Persian, Hebrew and Sanskrit.
2) Google Translate, the famous online translation tool offered by Google instead allows you to write a name or another word, in languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean and many other languages spoken in the world, there are practically all of them and you can also listen to the audio for some of them.
3) BarCode Generator is the tool to convert a word or a name into a barcode .
Whatever word you use, an image is generated that you can save on your computer
There is also, on the ZXing.org website, the reverse converter, from barcode to normal language.
4) Braille Generator is an automatic tool that converts a word into Braille, the symbology that allows you to read to the blind, by touch, passing your fingers through these tiny points.
5) Morse code : You can write your name in the morse alphabet, a system that was invented in the 19th century to transmit information using telegraphic lines.
The most important sentence of the Morse code is the typical SOS which is represented by the sequence "... - ..." that is, 3 points, followed by 3 dashes and then again by 3 points.
6) Elvish language : with this web page you enter the fantasy world of the film The Lord of the Rings.
You can find the English translator of the Elvish language of Tolkien's books.
7) For fans of ancient languages, you can write your name, as the code of Hammurabi was written, in Babylonian .
Practically it is a cuneiform writing and the site graphics carry the translation and the writing made of symbols on a clay tablet.
8) If there is Babylonian, the hieroglyphic symbols of ancient Egypt could not be missing.
The automatic online tool (unrealistic and pure entertainment) allows you to take the letters with which a name is composed and convert it into hieroglyphic symbols of the ancient Egyptian language.
9) Hobbit Rune: the runes were in use during the first century AD and were later replaced by the Latin alphabet
With this automatic tool it is possible to write the name or other words using ancient runic alphabets, however those invented by Tolkien author of the story of the Lord of the Rings.
10) To translate from English to Navi (the language of the film Avatar) you can use the Navilator, automatic translator while from Italian to Navi there is the site Avatar-Italia.net.
To find out more and try a better translation from Italian, you can read the Wikipedia page on the Na'vi language.
