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Meaning in Chinese, Google translate if needed
Letters with a tilda at the top are just long vowels while the ones that have a macron are pronounced with an -r at the end.
It has a small number of characters which is why words sound so similar
Sometimes I have ideas for a fantasy world, an rpg setting, so I created the language by translating the text in my native tongue, it is part of a poetic chronicle of the dwarves, weirdly it is not a dwarf language, I started to create A language, starting with some words then I thought to use the text to create more, use grammar, verbs and so on, because I don´t think that resembles anything dwarvish I just thought to be another people that translated the "Poetic Chronicle of the Dwarves II" in their own language, I started with the roman alphabet and then created their own script, I hope that some of you will enjoy it, my handwriting sucks unfortunately.... and I make a mistake in the and.... God bless you all.
I just will call it the Kvcp Script for now. The 'x' is your tipical [sh] sound. I just wanted to make a script that looked like Hanzi (汉子) chinese characters but had a Hangeul (한글) way for figuring it out. And that's how I come up with the script.
The phonemes that are in Tokipona are the simpler strokes. You can write one entire word in Tokipona with one block in this Script but nothing prevents you from using more blocks characters.
In this way it can also write the Kanji and Japanese language, the Korean, English, Spanish and some other languages.
The complex the word phonetic is, the messier the characters can get, depending on how many characters you want to use to write a word. There is nothing that prevents you from writing "kijetesantakalu" or your name in one block character.
The rule is to read from up to down, and strokes compact, for example, having a vowel stroke inside consonant stroke. A big stroke (starting sound) over two columns of strokes indicates: 1st column is the 2nd part after big stroke over and 2nd column goes next. Sometimes the stroke for 'a', a little line, can be omitted if is still understandable.
Also accidentally invented a script from it that looks like those ancient Phoenician writings by just rotating the strokes a little.
On the left, the 137 official of Tokipona.
Can you try writing in other languages with this script and how'd you improve it?
Consider follow me on Twitter: TXT_LangConlang.
Just the bare bones of the language. Anckhb- means alphabet btw I want it to be like the Chinese writing system where the “letters” are condensed into this box , this is shown by the word anckhb- in the top right corner. I also like that there are many letters. I do want this language to be kinda difficult as it makes sense for demons? However i do want it to reflect demons more Like more straight edges and jagged lines but no matter what i cant make these conditions work well in a way that i like. Im sticking with this for now but im not fully sold I still want it to look and sound pretty but ami way over my head? Also Would you change anything or any criticisms?
Exactly what the title says, this script requires you to understand shorthand to be able to read this. Also, it's in Thai.
This script is written by taking out the letters in a word in shorthand (for example, the first word) "PT" which means "country" in Thai Gregg shorthand. And we write the letters PT in the script. Very simple, but with so many contractions and brief forms, it's impossible to be understood by an outsider.
This script is just "shorthand but longer" lmao
The original script is from u/calvinyl so I must thank him a lot for it.
If I have time I will make a completely new script inspired by Tibetian to make it more unique but probably not soon
Transcript : ปท ไท ร เลือค เนือ ชาด เชือ ไท กิเลน ผยอง เมือง ทอง ยูไนเตด สโม ฟุดบอน บ-รัม ยูไนเตด "ปราสาด ไส ฟ"
Translated into normal Thai: ประเทศไทยรวมเลือดเนื้อชาติเชื้อไทย กิเลน ผยอง เมืองทองยูในเต็ด สโมสรฟุตบอล บุรีรัมย์ยูในเต็ด "ปราสาทสายฟ้า"
I originally wanted to reduce ambiguity of pronunciation of <c> and it's derivative forms: multigraphs, diacritic combos, etc. I wanted to move /x/ sound the letter can give in <ch>—which can also give /k/, /ʧ/, /ʃ/—to a new presumed letter.
I thought greek psi <Ψ> would make the most sensible choice: given that borrowed letters in latin kept their western greek pronunciation—as <x> for /ks/—the assumed letter would give /x/ sound.
However, I can't see it being part of latin script in it's greek form. Maybe it's the lateral arcs, or the fact that they arise from the middle of letter's stem and it doesn't look convex? Idk, it doesn't look like any other latin letter to me. So I decided to draft some graphemes based on their “primitive” forms.
I guess I just want everyone's feedback on this.
It's great to see that your fictional language is functional to the point where you can write minimally complex text.
(If you want to know the translation, it's the text I wrote in my last 2 posts. Go to my account and see).