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Nothing concrete yet, just an attempt at a re-doing of an idea I had years ago.

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Vowels get attached to the glyph of the consonant they follow as marks above or below depending on which vowel. If a vowel is repeated within a word, that is indicated through an arc drawn from the first instance of that vowel to its repeated position.

Apologies for blurry photos! Thoughts?
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loomy wrote:Nothing concrete yet, just an attempt at a re-doing of an idea I had years ago.

One
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...Apologies for blurry photos! Thoughts?
My, my! Quite interesting.
This script is very vertical (much like one of my scripts) which I am personally fond of, and you should be careful about letters squishing together for that reason. A good example of this can be found at the bottom of page one. Other than that, it looks appealing!
I have one question for you: Have you ever worried about some glyphs looking too similar?
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AndivahXevos wrote:My, my! Quite interesting.
This script is very vertical (much like one of my scripts) which I am personally fond of, and you should be careful about letters squishing together for that reason. A good example of this can be found at the bottom of page one. Other than that, it looks appealing!
I have one question for you: Have you ever worried about some glyphs looking too similar?
Mmm, I'm aware that some of them look a little too similar... I'll get around to redesigning those ones, I think. Should the letters be joined as they are in those examples, or would they look better disjointed? Disjointed is the way I used to write them, and it looked quite different. Not sure if it was better, though! I'll add an example of that style to this post in a bit.
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Xing wrote:I've been trying out a syllabary this morning:
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I've made separate final, medial and initial glyphs. Each glyph represents a /C/ or /CV/ sequence. There are some featural/abugidaish tendencies, but those are not 100% consistent.
Nice progress, Xing! ("huccantakurtuh" is my favorite to look at.)
Sḿtuval wrote:I made this. My lack of PAINT.NET skills is partly why it looks sloppy.
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In order from left to right, top to bottom row, these are the romanizations and possible pronunciations of each glyph.
<j q y i ì u w a e> [j h/k ɨ i ɪ u w a e]
<è h m f p n k o s> [ə ∅ m f p n/ŋ k o s]
<z v r l g b d t x> [z v ɹ l g b d t x]
There are also two digraphs: <sj zj> [ʃ ʒ]
The script has another diacritic, romanized as an acute accent. It looks similar to a breve.
I like the way it looks so far! Keep up the good work.
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loomy wrote:Mmm, I'm aware that some of them look a little too similar... I'll get around to redesigning those ones, I think. Should the letters be joined as they are in those examples, or would they look better disjointed? Disjointed is the way I used to write them, and it looked quite different. Not sure if it was better, though! I'll add an example of that style to this post in a bit.
Maybe you should do a bit more testing to see which is best fit for you. It is your conlang after all. If you were looking for a personal opinion: I would say to keep them joined because they seem to naturally fit that way. Looking forward to seeing more! [:)]
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I've been toying around with the glyphs for my conlang, "Freszbyar". You know...this:
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I have a good idea of how the grammar will work. More details coming soon.
In the meantime, have these practice pieces.
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Just shout if you want a doodle of your name (or username). I'm doing names as Freszbyarian practice.
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AndivahXevos wrote:I've been toying around with the glyphs for my conlang, "Freszbyar". You know...this:
Spoiler:
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I have a good idea of how the grammar will work. More details coming soon.
In the meantime, have these practice pieces.
Spoiler:
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Image
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Just shout if you want a doodle of your name (or username). I'm doing names as Freszbyarian practice.
Try "Ašahījar" which is alternatively spelt "Ashahijar"
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Ahzoh wrote:Try "Ašahījar" which is alternatively spelt "Ashahijar"
It is done. I hope you enjoy!
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AndivahXevos wrote:
Ahzoh wrote:Try "Ašahījar" which is alternatively spelt "Ashahijar"
It is done. I hope you enjoy!
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It looks so beautifully sinister!
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AndivahXevos wrote:Just shout if you want a doodle of your name (or username). I'm doing names as Freszbyarian practice.
I'm curious to see how you'd render 'Ànradh' [ˈaːn̪.ɾəɣ], if it fits with your phonology.
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Ànradh wrote: I'm curious to see how you'd render 'Ànradh' [ˈaːn̪.ɾəɣ], if it fits with your phonology.
Here it is. Please enjoy!
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AndivahXevos wrote:Here it is. Please enjoy!
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Sweet!
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I have finally finished organizing the Freszbyaran alphabet into one image. The most common phoneme is written first in the parenthesis.
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Freszbyaran syllables are built using the order CV+(C)+(V). A cluster of a maximum of 4 letters (CVCV) can be combined by raising the last consonant, vowel, or pair in such a way to save space.When names are used in the context of a sentence, they should be raised to fit into the top half of the active space only. I'm working on a compact alternative too, so as to make writing faster more easy!
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AndivahXevos wrote:Freszbyaran syllables are built using the order CV+(C)+(V).
Uh-oh. I just realized that the name of the language doesn't even follow it's rules! I'm not sure what to do about this...
Edit: I guess it'll be "Feszbar" from now on.
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I just made a fixedsys looking font-type thing for Vwase
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From left to right, it reads:
Entik /endˈɪk/: Placed at the beginning of a sentence or line
Utra /ʊtˈɹa/: /ʊ/; word finally; [ɔ] before /ɹ/
Muk /ˈmʊk/: /m/; /ɱ/ before /v/
Pati /paˈti/: /p/; after /m/ or /ɫ/
Rans /ˈɹanz/: /ɹ/; [ɚ] after a vowel
It /ˈɪt/: /ɪ/; /i/ word finally
Nurak /nɔɚˈak/: /n/
Tau /tuː/: /t/; [d] after /n/ or /ɫ/
Aisa /iːsˈa/: /a/
Eren /eɚˈen/: /e/
Kuro /kɔɚˈo/: /k/; [g] after /ɫ/
Lilt /ˈɫɪɫd/: /ɫ/
Ol /ˈoɫ/: /o/
Sai /ˈsiː/: /s/; [z] after /n/ or /ɫ/; [ʃ] before /e/; [ʒ] after /n/ or /ɫ/ and before /e/
Vom /vom/: /v/
Waunt /ˈwuːnd/: /w/; [ʷ] after /p/, /t/, /k/, /v/ or /s/
Ylat /yɫˈat/: /y/
Nokik /nokˈɪk/: Placed at the end of a sentence

There's also diphthongs and digraphs that aren't listed, which are:
Au: /uː/
Ai: /iː/
Ay: /aʊ̯/
Nk: /ŋ/
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AndivahXevos wrote:I have finally finished organizing the Freszbyaran alphabet into one image. The most common phoneme is written first in the parenthesis.
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Freszbyaran syllables are built using the order CV+(C)+(V). A cluster of a maximum of 4 letters (CVCV) can be combined by raising the last consonant, vowel, or pair in such a way to save space.When names are used in the context of a sentence, they should be raised to fit into the top half of the active space only. I'm working on a compact alternative too, so as to make writing faster more easy!
More than a little fascinated by this.
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A friend dared me to draw the equivalent of the following phrase/name:
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Just something to keep the thread going.
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I have a collection of orthographic systems using real-world alphabets.
I played with Greek and Cyrillic and I have many ways to use the Latin alphabet.
I try to use the Latin alphabet without diacritics, because many real-world systems do not support them.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0OlOks ... edit?pli=1
English is not my native language. Sorry for any mistakes or lack of knowledge when I discuss this language.
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Being that letters come from pictoral glyphs, what do you think would be a good letter to represent the letter Ghaym which means "will, willpower"
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Ahzoh wrote:Being that letters come from pictoral glyphs, what do you think would be a good letter to represent the letter Ghaym which means "will, willpower"
An arm.

willpower < the unwavering strength of will to carry out one’s wishes < a muscular arm < an arm.

As it turns out, the Chinese character 力 ("power, capability, influence"), apparently has the same "muscular arm" etymology, so that was cool :)
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