A language-building tool

Give a language its own sounds, its own alphabet.

Lingua derives the IPA, the readings, and the writing system from the words you invent. Draw every letter yourself — then type it with a real keyboard built for your own alphabet.

Latest on X→ App Store — coming soon

Building for iOS · in TestFlight now · launching this fall

ʃ θ ŋ ɸ

The real Lingua iOS keyboard extension, every key a hand-drawn letter

hejo

/hejo/

hello

A conlang, built properly.

Phonology, a growing dictionary, grammar you define rule by rule. Lingua is a place to design a language the way a linguist would — not a random name generator.

Your own alphabet

Not a font.
Your handwriting.

28 letters — a to z, plus ! and ? — and every one is drawn by you, stroke by stroke. The moment you save the last letter, your dictionary reads in your hand, not in Latin.

A dictionary entry in Lingua, spelled with a hand-drawn alphabet, with its IPA reading and meaning

A keyboard of your own

A real keyboard, not a mockup.

An actual iOS keyboard extension, laid out with the letters you drew. It's how you write your language, fast, right inside Lingua.

The real Lingua iOS system keyboard, every key a hand-drawn letter

Read by anyone

Where your letters
get seen.

Your keyboard writes your letters for you, inside Lingua. The timeline is how anyone else reads them — every post carries the writer's own inked letters, even without that font or alphabet.

Composing a post in Lingua using a hand-drawn alphabet

A language is being built.Watch it happen.