- Morse code: open the full converter
- NATO alphabet: open the full converter
- Elder Futhark: open the full converter
- Younger Futhark: open the full converter
- Anglo-Saxon runes: open the full converter
- Ogham: open the full converter
- Enchanting table: open the full converter
- Upside down: open the full converter
- Binary: open the full converter
Your text in nine scripts and codes at once. See every script, or click one to open it with your text.
Every script and signal
31 converters in 3 groups
- Morse codeSOSbecomes... --- ...Text to dots and dashes, with sound and light.
- Morse code chartAbecomes.-Letters, numbers and punctuation, printable.
- NATO phonetic alphabetHIbecomesHotel IndiaAlfa to Zulu, both ways, with the chart.
- 10-codes10-4becomesOKPolice radio ten-signals, 10-1 to 10-39, from the APCO list.
- Q-codesQTHbecomesMy locationQSL, QTH, QRZ and the rest, as question and answer.
- Morse code braceletLOVEbecomes.-.. --- ...- .A name as a bead pattern, with a bead count.
- I love you in Morse codeIbecomes..A printable Morse card in hearts, with To and From lines.
- SOS in Morse codeSOSbecomes...---...The distress signal to scale, with its timing and history.
- Semaphore flagsSOSbecomesdrawnMessages drawn in flag semaphore, and the full chart.
- Nautical flagsObecomesman overboardMessages as a hoist of signal flags, with every flag's meaning.
- RuneshellobecomesᚺᛖᛚᛚᛟElder Futhark, Younger Futhark and Anglo-Saxon runes.
- OghamhellobecomesᚆᚓᚂᚂᚑThe early Irish alphabet of strokes along a line.
- FingerspellingText to the American manual alphabet
- HieroglyphsWrite a name in Egyptian signs, with a cartouche.
- CuneiformSound out a name in cuneiform syllable signs.
- Roman numerals2026becomesMMXXVINumbers and years to Roman numerals and back.
- Mayan numerals429becomes1.1.9Dots, bars and shells in base 20, drawn.
- Greek alphabetBobbecomesΜπομπEnglish in Greek letters, and Greek back to Latin.
- Mayan calendar2012becomes13.0.0.0.0Any date in the Long Count, Tzolk'in and Haab'.
- Babylonian numerals8583becomes2,23,3Base 60 in cuneiform wedges, fractions too.
- IPA chartEvery phonetic symbol, named; click to copy.
- English to IPAhellobecomeshəˈloʊPhonetic transcription with stress marks.
- Shavian alphabet translatorEnglish spelled by sound in the Shaw alphabet, with a chart of all 48 letters.
- Deseret alphabet translatorEnglish spelled by sound in the 1850s Utah alphabet, with a letter chart.
- Theban alphabet translatorThe witches' alphabet, drawn in the letters Agrippa printed in 1533.
- Enochian alphabet translatorJohn Dee's angelic alphabet of 1583, traced from his own diary.
- Morse code quizK MbecomesR S ULearn Morse by letter, by ear or by lamp, with Koch lessons.
- NATO phonetic alphabet quizQbecomesQuebecAlfa to Zulu and the digits, both ways round.
- Greek alphabet quizΛbecomeslambdaThe 24 letters by name and by sound, on screen or printed.
- Roman numerals quizXIVbecomes14Numbers to numerals and back, from 1 to 3000.
- Fingerspelling flash cardsThe ASL handshapes for A to Z and 0 to 9.
Nothing here matches that. If you're holding text you can't read, the cipher identifier tries every converter on it.
What's here
Two kinds of tool live here. Signals carry letters over a distance: Morse code with sound, the NATO phonetic alphabet, flag semaphore and nautical flags, each drawn or played. Alphabets and scripts write English in another writing system: runes, Ogham, Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphs and cuneiform.
Numbers had scripts of their own. Mayan numerals count in twenties with dots, bars and shells, the Maya calendar turns any date into a Long Count, and Babylonian numerals count in sixties in cuneiform wedges. For sounds rather than letters, the IPA chart and English to IPA write how words are said.
Transliteration, not translation
These converters change the alphabet and leave the language alone. English written in runes is still English: each letter becomes the symbol with the nearest sound, and a reader who knows the script gets your English words back.
Where a script has no symbol for a modern letter, the converter borrows the closest sound and tells you what it borrowed. Ogham was built for early Irish and the futharks for Germanic languages.
Shapes, strokes and signals
Each of these scripts was shaped by what its writers had to hand. Runes are straight lines because they were cut into wood and stone. Ogham is counted strokes along an edge, so a carver needs no ruled line. Morse gives up on shape and uses time, because a telegraph key is only ever up or down.
Questions
Can you translate English into Old Norse?
No. The runes converter changes the alphabet only. Translation needs a dictionary and grammar, not a character map.
Why do some letters look the same in runes?
Older scripts had fewer symbols than English has letters. Younger Futhark has 16 for the whole language, so several letters share.
Will runes and Ogham display on my phone?
On these pages, yes, because the fonts are bundled. Pasted elsewhere it depends on that app having a font for those Unicode blocks.
Sources
- Wikipedia: Runes
- Wikipedia: Younger Futhark
- Wikipedia: Ogham
- Unicode code chart: Runic (U+16A0 to U+16FF)
- Unicode code chart: Ogham (U+1680 to U+169F)
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