Re: Invented alphabet on the computer
| From: | Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 8, 2002, 5:59 |
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Emaelivpahr Tim May:
Thank you. :)
The first example is my first conscript, created for my first conlang,
Asha'ille. Unfortunately, the conscript is heavily based on the Latin
alphabet and I've had to explain away this by admitting that it _is_ based
on the Latin alphabet. It is (at least) the third script the Cresaeans (the
species that speaks Asha'ille) have used for their language, this being the
Terranized version of one of their native scripts (which I haven't
font-ified yet). They adopted the Terranized form for writings that were
meant to be shared between themselves and the Terrans.
The (mostly) connected script along the baseline of the script represents
the consonants, while the smaller marks floating above represent the
vowels. I created this before I knew Arabic did the same, so it wasn't a
copycat. :P
The second example is used for Gharchove, the parent language of Asha'ille.
For temporary, "portable" writing they impress their claws into thin clay
tablets (or clay-like, I'm not sure). They also have a sacred cave where
they gather together all their writings and carve them into the walls of
the cavern system. The wider end of the teardrop shapes is also the deeper
end, when the writing is impressed/carved. The teardrops are the consonants
and the thin L-shaped marks are the vowels.
I don't know how the Asha'illens write their script, but they need to have
developed some portable, durable way to do so. The Kegharn (the species
that speaks Gharchove) will kill a Cresaean on sight if they're in the
sacred cave, so the Cresaeans couldn't follow that tradition of a community
library of historical writings. Besides, I want the Cresaeans to be the
"more advanced" ones. ;)
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Arthaey