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This is my very first script that I’m happy with. I’m currently using this to take private notes and journaling. Here’s the key and an example of it written. Remember this was designed to write Italian that’s why some english letters are missing. The text is the “universal human right declaration” in Italian. If you have any questions regarding the script feel free to ask I’m happy to answer!
Would it be a crime if I combined the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts — including the IPA — into an alphabet to use for my own language?
^(I realize that I shared about this script a long time back in December 2023, but I feel like this post is a much better showcase for the script)
#Creation
The Goal
I have always really liked the Ogham script, but it isn’t designed for English phonology. /ogmə/ is intended to be suitable for writing English whilst remaining as true to original Ogham as possible.
Creation Method
Due to the variation of script phonemes I have taken the “standard ones” as defined by Omniglot. This script does not consider the [bracketed] phonemes when they differ from the unbracketed letter corespondents. I have tried to avoid rearranging the phonemes as much as possible.
b now encodes /b,p/
f writes /f,v/
A line like in peith on the opposite side of ‘f’ writes the dental fricatives <th>
A line on the other side of ‘s’ writes the post alveolar sibilant fricative <sh, sch> (voiced and unvoiced)
A line on the other side of ‘h’ writes /w/
A line on the other side of ‘t’ writes the post alveolar affricate (voiced and unvoiced) <ch, c>
Ceirt does not have an equivalent glyph
Ngéadal encodes the velar nasal
Peith now writes the /j/ consonant, but can also function as <y>
In terms of the glyphs themselves I have tried to remain as true to the original Ogham style as well. This means that the fifth aicme has been dropped entirely. For the phonemes that were added I often used a line on the opposite side to indicate similarity in pronunciation and also avoiding adding radically different symbols (I can imagine peith actually being carved into stone or wood).
Alterations/Additions
The little open triangle >< is used to indicate the start of a sentence; there is no end sentence glyph. A closed triangle at the end of a sentence indicates a question. This has the effect of turning a short question into an arrow.
I have also added a special symbol used to indicate that the next set of carvings/lines are a number. This was added because Ogma recycles glyphs to form a tally system. More on the numeral system later.
In actual writing I’ll often just apply quotation marks, apostrophes, colons and semi colons at the ends of words if needed.
Numeral System
Ogma uses a simple tally system. I have designed it to operate on a non-zero seximal system.
1 2 3 | || ||| 4 5 6 \ \ \\ - 11 12 13 | | . | || . | ||| 14 15 16 | \ . | \ . | \\
If you do not want to write Base-6 then this can easily be expanded into Base-10.
1 2 3 4 5 | || ||| |||| ||||| 6 7 8 9 10 \ . // . \\ . //// . ///\
Reddit has mucked with the 6-10 presentation
Sometimes when writing numbers that I need in Base-10 I may substitute a <j> glyph for zero and drop the <10> glyph.
In terms of actually writing numbers one writes the number.glyph then writes their number. Each dash numeral can be written on either side or through the middle for ease of distinguishing when a new number begins, and each slant numeral can be slanted either way (again for distinguishing between 2 separate numbers //\ = 54^B6 .
#Writing
Style Rules
The dash numbers ( | ) can be written on either side or over the line. Alternations are used to separate various digits of a multi-digit number. The slant numbers ( \ ) can be written either way, again for distinguishing digits - // \ = 54^B6 .
The slant letters can also be alternated to separate two slanted glyphs
“gram” can be written as >// ///// | / . // \\\ | \ . // \\\ | /
The Text
This is the poem The Dying need but little, Dear by Emily Dickinson.^(I left out her punctuation style, and there is no upper case)
The Dying need but little, Dear,
A Glass of Water’s all,
A Flower’s unobtrusive Face
To punctuate the Wall,
A Fan, perhaps, a Friend’s Regret
And Certainty that one
No color in the Rainbow
Perceive, when you are gone
The numbers are as follows
Base 10 - 2024 ^(the year), 19 ^(compare with base 6 example), 27 ^(number of glyphs in the script)
Base 6 - Someone is 31^(B6) years old
#Closing Remarks
Your Thoughts
Hopefully this post made sense. If you have any thoughts feel free to share them.
P.S.
I obviously could have made a few minor adjustments to just about completely remove the parallel line for some of the glyphs, but I find this make it a little bit easier to read both in understanding what the phoneme is and visually breaking up the monotony on a long text.
the script, the ipa & the acrophonic names for the letters
Hello everyone, I'm new here.
My friends and I made up a language script and I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to design a method to be able to change the keyboard on their phone, or add an extension somehow to allow for texting in said script?
An example could be texting in Tolkien's elvish languages. I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this.
I've been thinking it was a sort of abugida, seeing as each sound is modular, but the fact that three or more sounds can be added to one block makes it rather perplexing. If anyone has a document that explains what type of script hangul falls into, I'd deeply appreciate you sharing it :3
A language written In circles (in progress)
(some names have been rotated to fit)
The language is Kazakh, BTW.
https://footballbatsandmore.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/kenamoya-script.pdf
A decorative script for Kala centered on a circular design.