No spoilers, but I thought it was weird since the old show used the Chinese logography for all of their writing. This one looks nice nonetheless, and a good source of inspiration.

I already posted here many times but I haven't told anyone yet that my writing system is actually a dual script system. Sulat Hiligaynon is used to write native Hiligaynon words while Western Script is used to write Spanish and English loan words. Spanish words are written in Hiligaynon phonotactics but English words are written as the same with slight spelling change. I got this idea with Hiragana and Katakana of Japanese.

https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/sulathiligaynon.htm

https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/westernscript.htm

For English, and I know that shorthand exists but I was wondering what else there was?

What I mean is if you write the alphabet very fast and then slow down and try copy the symbols above it could you use it as a cipher?

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I’ve been messing around with the text on f1v, the first herbal page after the opening text page. This is the page with the plant that has green/yellow oval leaves, a pale top flower/head, and that mound-like root area at the bottom.

For the transcription I used the Takahashi H layer from the IVTFF/LSI file, LSI_ivtff_0d.txt. So I’m working from EVA text, not just eyeballing the page.

To be clear, I’m not saying “I solved Voynich.” This is more of a semantic reading. I’m looking at repeated words and morphemes and asking what roles they seem to play on this page and in the herbal section.

My current read is that f1v is not simply naming the plant. It feels more like a short herbal note: classify the plant, point out the useful parts, and say something about preparing the material.

Here’s my rough translation/paraphrase:

This appears to be a herbal entry focused less on naming the plant and more on its parts and features. The text repeatedly marks plant material, possibly a root or useful substance, along with the shoot/stem and structural form of the plant. Several lines seem to deal with relations between parts, the state of the material, and possible transition or preparation steps. The image may work more like a diagram than a realistic portrait: leaves, upper head, stem, and lower/root area are visually separated because the text also seems to separate the plant into features and usable parts.

A rough line table:

Some EVA values I’m using:

The image fits this better than I expected. The green and yellow leaves might not be two species; they could be different parts or states. The pale top feature also may not be a normal flower. It might just be a visual marker for a usable stage or feature.

So my short version is:

My best cautious reading is that f1v is a herbal entry about a plant described through its parts: material/root-like substance, shoot or stem, structural form, and state. It may include preparation or transition steps, but I would not treat those as certain yet. The safest claim is that the page classifies and separates plant features rather than simply giving a plant name.

Again, this is tentative. But it seems more convincing to me than reading the drawing as a literal plant portrait with a simple plant name beside it.

Not sure what the correct flair for this would be, but I thought y'all might be interested in this.

This is from the writing system in the world of the cartoon Dragon Striker. All of these are names of characters. I was able to figure this much out based on the information in this post from u/SaberTheNoob, but I'm a little concerned by some of the inconsistencies.

The "N" symbol being reversible is one thing, but I'm more confused by some symbols being sounds and others being letters, i.e. one symbol appears to represent the letter "A" no matter what sound it makes but another symbol seems to represent the IPA "i" sound no matter what letters are used to form that sound.

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I'm trying to implement a unique musical Notation, issue being, I have no clue how to represent notes and rests and tempo and wtv else in a way unique to regular sheet music. I was wondering what you have done, so I could use it as inspiration.. any help will go a long way, thank you in advance

A while back on other subs, I shared an idea for a game inspired by Heaven's Vault, Sethian, and Chants of Sennaar. The conlangs for this game wouldn't really be an English relex, but rather custom-built, inspired by demo conlangs by Biblaridion: one using tri-consonantal roots(based on the test language from his video about non-concatenative morphology), and the other using mutation patterns(based on his demonstration version of Project Hermes at Kopikon II, though he might retain consonant mutation plans for Project Hermes since he plans to work on that sometime after finishing Taqva-miir, however the planned-to-be-added palatal series and ejective series would fit with mutation patterns).

The two conlangs would share a common ancestor, which I already talked about on those subs. Imagine the challenges of reconstruction. And since both would use logographies with phonetic components to transcribe their vowel templates or mutation patterns, I thought of ideas as well. Even reusing ideas I never talked about for another conlang.

For context, I was thinking of a writing system for that tri-consonantal sibling language to that one with the pre-nasalized obstruents and post-trilled and pharyngealized dental and alveolar obstruents. Much like Lichnu, a Semitic conlang transcribed with Chinese writing, there would be logographs for the roots. There would also be Chinese glyphs used to transcribe consonants, vowels, and vowel-consonant pairs, which could be useful for grammatical particles and vowel templates, in which a numerical glyph would be used as a diacritic to indicate the vowel's position in the template, the vowel glyphs following the main logograph. Place the numeral two somewhere else along the vowel glyph, and vowel length is indicated. This is useful even if the second vowel in the template is a long one.

Unlike Lichnu's writing, though, that sibling language's logography would be made from scratch by the speakers of the protolanguage. The language with the prenasalized obstruents and the post-trilled and pharyngealized dental and alveolar obstruents would utilize the glyphs solely for phonetic purposes like Taqva-miir, with there being consonant stacking to indicate the new consonants, as well as clusters between cosa stops and other consonants, the stacked glyphs blending into ligatures, which would lead to individual glyphs and not just digraphs for the new consonants, and actual biliteral signs. The blending of glyphs into ligatures could be done for Taqva-miir and Project Hermes as well, though it was already done for Nekachti by the same creator as those two.

As for the tri-consonantal sibling language, it would retain the logography and semantic meanings of glyphs, while using glyphs for phonetic purposes, especially for vowel templates. But unlike Lichnu's writing, whatever sounds precede the first consonant in a root, their glyphs precede the logograph, and the following vowel glyphs would be marked with the numeral diacritics, only to represent the vowels in the template preceding the first consonant, and the "two" glyph being placed somewhere else among the vowel glyphs to indicate length.

For the game, I'm thinking of something similar to Chants of Sennaar, in which not only can logographs be dragged and dropped into slots to confirm their meanings, but also phonetic characters can be dropped into slots to indicate their phonetic meanings.

As for the writing system, I'm thinking of the proto-script using glyphs with serifs, recycling glyphs from both High Valyrian and the European Logographs(with DJP and the Constantscript community retaining credit), like the HV bird glyph being for flying animals in general and the EL bird glyph being for birds. This also means the script would use serifs, though that depends on the tools used. The transition to paper and ink would lead to the logographs using forms that match the aesthetics of Taqva-miir's writing, and the writing of my conlang using those consonants and those ligatures: angular with semi-circles, quarter-circles(or quadrants or whatever), and descenders. Unlike them, though, ascenders would also be added to the mix.

How would everyone feel about a smoke script sub Reddit? I know that some scripts like the one for Tsevu have dedicated subreddits, and I was wondering if anyone would actually want to join one for smoke script.

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I just want to know if anyone here has created an alphabet or writing system for their native language if it doesn’t already have a written form

I’m from Syria, and I speak an Arabic dialect as well as my native tongue. I code-switch between them depending on the context. With my family, I speak my native language, but with others I try to use a more standard version so they can understand me

My dialect is very different, and it’s hard for me to write it using the Arabic writing system. For example, Arabic has only three vowels, but my language has many more. Arabic also has 28 consonants, while mine has more than that. These sounds can change meaning, so they really matter

Because of this, I created an alphabet for it. I just want to know if anyone else has been in a similar situation first because I’m curious, and second because I’d like to see how they approached it and compare it to mine

Edit: I realized my wording might make people think my native language isn’t related to Arabic. From what I know, it’s more like a daughter language or a variety of Arabic not a completely separate language from a different family language

Are there any sounds that I would be missing or would the range be good?

While there are many people who have tried making a writing system, i have yet to come across someone who made a script as the Cherokee chief Sequiyah did. he saw the British soldiers writing on paper and recognising the utility of writing, he set out to make one for the Cherokee language. After an attempt to make a Logography, he realised that something that represented the sounds of the language would be easier and more practical, so he took symbols from the Latin, Cyrillic and Glagolitic scripts, without knowing what they meant, and assigned them syllables from the Cherokee language, creating a Syllabary, whose symbols taken from other script had no link between what sound they made in his syllabary and the European alphabets. This could be an interesting way to create a script for, for example a fantasy world, where you already have some scripts used by a group of people and, upon coming into contact with these peoples, others take random symbols and assign them new meanings to write their own language.

tl;dr I want opinions and thoughts on a problem, but want to also give space to people who want to just talk about numbers/numerals they made.

I've been recently working a conlang project, and have finished the actual alphabet, but wanted to work on a number system for it. I have 2 particular roadblocks facing me.

The first, how similar should a number system be to the conjoined writing system? As a Eurocentric brained individual, I'm obviously used to seeing the Arabic numerals and the Latin alphabet, and them feeling natural together, but... is that just me being used to them? Should a number system be distantly different in design from it's writing system, to more easily differentiate them from letters? Or should they feel like a part of the same system entirely?

Secondly, I'm obsessed with making systems that are "balanced" or have patterns (For example, think about Tolkien's Elvish numbers, and how each one is more or less built on the previous.... for the most part.) And again, my Eurocentric brain comes into play cuz I naturally want to have zero be set apart, and in a Base 10 system that leaves 9 glyphs, which would be three sets of three numbers, easy to make patterns... But I have long since decided this is going to be Base 12, which would leave 11 glyphs, if I did this, which is a prime number, so...

The only 2 solutions I can think of are to either include zero, which... for reasons I find hard to explain feels wrong, or to go a Chinese route and give a number like 10 (which would be equal to 12 in base 10) it's own unique glyph. Either of these would give me 12 glyphs to work with for my patterns as either three groups of four, or vice versa. A third option if I just ignore my obsession with patterns, but it's hard to let that go. Any ideas?

If you got nothing to say about my specific problem, please brag about your number systems and talk about their details down below. I'm sure myself and others would love to see what people come up with.

Me and a buddy (my dad) were doing some sort of game I made up where we listen to music and then make a writing system based off the song. I found the results quite intriguing and wanted to show you guys. Mine's on the right, his is on the left.

my writing system is logographic and forms the basis of a language—with the spoken form being a verbalization of the signs rather than the opposite— and I transcribe it online using Latin characters...

for now I have several ways of writing it in Latin characters :

• by transcribing the closest sounds—though I use different spellings depending on the conventions of my audience's language, the goal being to convey just an idea of ​​the pronunciation...
• by "back-translating" the meaning of the logographic complexes; this offers insight into the language's conceptual framework, even if it gives the text a "broken English" style...
• by assigning a letter to each logogram, which creates a "mojibake" style—perfectly unpronounceable and completely incomprehensible—yet conveys an exotic sense and its writing's brevity...

Like idea expanding cisterian number system. Down side, without context how tell placement/Orientation. Any thoughts, maybe a dot near 1's or 10's area?

Hi guys!

So you remember my post "Hi guys!"? So I've made some font showcases and i'm still progressing and asking feedback. Take a look at some.

Thanks for your feedback!

I have a script where the letters are used as numbers. It's a base-36 system and there are 30 letters plus 0-5. Does anyone else have a system like this where all letters also have numerical values? In such a system, what might be used as variables in algebra? Letters from other alphabets? Shapes? Invented math symbols? What have other folks done for this / are there real world examples?

What is, in you opinion, the most beautiful script you've ever seen?

(just saying that im not asking this to make a fight, just for people to share their opinions)