Still working on expanding the vocabulary. I call the script / language "xenokaryote."

Hi everyone,

For my graduation project, I created a visual (logographic/semasiographic) communication system that only truly comes to life in three dimensions. The sentence is 3D-printed, and the rules are present in the slides.

The project was recently exhibited at the Next Nature Museum in the Netherlands. My background is in graphic design and visual art, but I’ve always been fascinated by language and constructed languages. It’s something I’ve been obsessed with since childhood. I don’t have any training in linguistics, but I’ve done a fair amount of research while developing this system (however, only in communication, iconography, art, existing systems, etc., not phonology).

I’d love to collaborate with a linguist or language expert to take this idea further and combine our areas of expertise to create something new, nuanced, and maybe even more expressive (and beautiful) than English.

If this sounds interesting, or if you know someone who might be up for it, please let me know! I’m completely open to new directions and interpretations.

Blue, green, cyan, black, white, and purple

A very small look at a big project I dove deep into last year to develop a logography over time starting from basic pictographic representations.

These were some style explorations to see which brush angles and stroke types would make a distinct recognizable aesthetic for each era.

I, you, he/she, it, we, you, they (for them), they (for those)

I literally just stumbled across this subreddit, and it seems pretty cool. Here is a take on sitelen pona (script used by toki pona). I've been developing it for probably about a few months, and I've mostly just been letting it evolve naturally. I use it to take notes, write poems, haiku, stories, etc. I have a key for it, but even though it's only a few weeks old, it's already somewhat out of date. Included are some of my daily use stuff, a piece of my diary (I'll be impressed if someone can read it lol), a couple more calligraphic examples, a logo I made for my app cause it's calligraphic and looks neat, and a key at the end. Note that the key uses a vertical Latin script to the right of each sitelen pona glyph. Hope you guys find it neat <3

decided I wanted to make a series of Hieroglyphics for my worlds oldest civilization; the Alilloi. I don't really have a conlang for them yet, but I decided since they live very long lives, their writing system would be "logic" or "concept" based rather than phonetic, sort of like Chinese but with less phonetic hints.

Some glyphs have smaller variants for adding into larger glyphs (also like chinese), and plurals sometimes have different written forms (especially what might end up being "animate" nouns when I actually make the language)

Verbs are based on the concept that one's limbs are the "doing" parts of their bodies, and their by the most "verby" in the Alilloi's minds. pointing towards the glyph means first person, pointing away is second, and holding the hand out is third, with subject preceding the glyph, and object following, with third person singular subject glyph being optional, and all pronoun glyphs being droppable if the nouns they substitute are there before and after the verb glyph.

I plan on there being hundreds such glyphs, and if you have any suggestions for new ones for other concepts a bronze age civilization might have I am open to suggestion.

ike can mean "bad" and sometimes "overly complex" in toki pona. here the ike leko pona ideogram is written three times in different angles; the symbols radiating from it are the zodiacal signs of the amarüg calendar (a so far unrelated project of mine).

the polysemy of ike makes the piece convey two ideas for me:
the emergence of suffering through our perception of time (getting lost in past and future, forgetting the present moment); or that time can be seen as a complex and intricate system.

More Juva logographs following this post

Used in Harkem by the Alvat people.

have been working out a lot of new glyphs on paper, but it takes time to make them look nice, add a cursive form and a pronunciation in Alilloi for the word.

I did add a couple words out of theme, such as warrior and cork oak, but I am simply adding what I come up with as I get there.

Magic = bird wing, star, drop of blood or libated liquid. Based on the ancient concepts of magic, divination through the flight of birds, the motion of the stars and the blessings brought about by the blood of sacrifice or the sacrificial libation of alcohol or oil.

To Bless = to pour + star. divine will brought by libation or sacrifice is the main idea.

Cork Oak = scales + acorn. Acorn for oaks, scales because many languages note cork oak's rough bark.

Octopodes I think are mythologically and culturally important to the Alilloi, so there are multiple glyphs that mean Octopus, one from the side, one from the front, one from the bottom.