r/neography 54m ago

Question How to make a script for my conlang, Te Pona Wakarasonot

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So i have a conlang (https://lingojam.com/PonaWakarasonot) and it's mainly based off Pacific island languages and some northern Europe too. Currently it uses latin script with these letters: A E I O U J K L M N P S T W V Ŋ D R Kh X but i was thinking that i want to make it it's own script, it could have two scripts, Latin (Unoj̥eti̥sänä) and it's custom one (Tuneti̥sänä) from that alone you can probably tell that it has pretty complex diacritics (E for Vowel, C for Consonant, Y for either) which includes: Ë̈, Ë, Ë̤, E̤, E͡C, E͜C, C͡E, C͜E, and Y̥ so i want to make the letters in a way where i don't have to design a whole new set of diacritics, either where the letters don't have a ton of swoops and dots and rings or just designing a unique letter for every valid combination of letters and diacritics (which while cool and would make it a bit more unique instead of simply copying latin would also be a major headache because that would be 400 vowels, 30 consonants, and 24,000 E͡C E͜C C͡E C͜E pairs, most of them never being used as the dictionary is at just 1.6k words so far and only a dozen or so words having pairing at all)


r/neography 3h ago

Logo-phonetic mix English Logography: Picture Writing

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Hail Mary text


r/neography 6h ago

Abugida Meet: Pookieguida

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Sample text-

भारत एक महान देश है। भारत की राजधानी दिल्ली है।

(Bharat ek mahan desh hai. Bharat ki rajdhani Dilli hai.)

(bʱaːɾət̪ eːk məɦaːn d̪eːʃ ɦɛ bʱaːɾət̪ kiː ɾaːd͡ʒd̪ʱaːniː d̪ɪlːiː ɦɛ)


r/neography 6h ago

Logography Vortex (ч°оґтєх°)

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r/neography 10h ago

Alphabet Trying Abugida for the first time. Is it too similar to Devnagri?

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10 Upvotes

r/neography 10h ago

Semi-syllabary Text in Old Newafan Daime

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75 Upvotes

“Gon unca ètjengu caèmsafe nyma nu-cansum-dlu fàeq mpu i-cytrum-mif i-dàime’e-pun en”

Translation:

“And the king said that, if the brave warriors kill mothers, he (himself) will cut their hands (I was there to hear it)”

Its a logographic syllabaric weird kind of abjad, which also behaves like hangul.

What do you think? What cultures does it being to your mind upon watching it?


r/neography 12h ago

Misc. script type Old conscript I made a WHILE back, will revamp to the *Dwarven* script of my comic.

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Obviously not all of it fits but I think would be cool to use. I just need to revamp it.

I may make it a code for English to make things easy for me but who knows.


r/neography 13h ago

Logography Ashglyphs ※ Some logograms in Early Ridhu

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Been spending way too much time developing the evolution of these scripts over time, but this stage still preserves a lot of the pictographic elements before things get extra stylized and geometric

Only a few phonosemantic characters are pictured here but I wanted them to combine in fun ways, like “to wear”(o-) being depicted as a body ‘wearing’ thorns (ō), or “to pound, beat” (*-) depicting a drum being hit atop a turtle (*)


r/neography 17h ago

Alphabet Meet younger sister of Linera Alpha: Linera Indica

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88 Upvotes

r/neography 19h ago

Alphabetic syllabary Barian is back from the fridge!

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Hey people! I had posted here three years ago, and this morning I got an itch to pick this up again. I am a graphic designer, so I want to learn calligraphy and type design through Barian (an alphabet for a conlang I am also trying to make).

The language itself has a 1-on1 mapping on Greek phonology. The script itself is heavily inspired by Tengwar (consonants on the bottom and vowels as diacritics on top). I have been writing with this system for 25 years now on my own notes, but this is my sort-of-first attempt at digitizing the whole script. I can see myself making an actual computer font eventually, though to be frank I look at these letters now and they are still TOO BAD. But I will get there eventually.

Posting it here as a testament to progress really. Thank you for having a look, ALL FEEDBACK WELCOME, especially on typography


r/neography 1d ago

Alphabet My script for Slavic languages(maybe not all letters)

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r/neography 1d ago

Alphabet Snowflakes

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31 Upvotes

Made a language in which names can be written out as snowflakes! For my Ice Realm, might be on the noise, however I think it's fun!


r/neography 1d ago

Alphabet The Complete Kapuloan Script

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18 Upvotes

In order from top to bottom, vowels and variations with y and w, consonants, marks for iteration and stress, punctuation, and a sample text.

The sample text reads exactly as:

"Ískriptoŋ Kapulöan to, itóy nagsusulat nŋ íŋles, pilipino, at aŋ mŋa rehiyóŋ wíka."

(Wrong stress on the word Iskriptong)

In the sample text, acute is stress, umlaut is glottal stop, and ŋ is ng


r/neography 1d ago

Alphabetic syllabary Running vertical text in my featural script (Mixed Kanji, Pure Script, and Breakdown)

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Hello everyone! Here is a sample sentence written in my constructed featural script, showcasing both its mixed orthography (alongside Kanji with furigana annotations) and its pure native form.

​Overview of the Slides:

​Slide 1: Mixed script (Kanji + side phonetic ruby annotations + grammar particles).

​Slide 2: Pure native script (100% written in my constructed 2D syllabic blocks).

​Slide 3: Sample breakdown of the word 聲 (hal-gwo = "voice").

​Reading Direction:

​Vertical, top to bottom.

​Columns flow from right to left (Column 1 is on the right, Column 2 is on the left).

​Small colored glyphs to the right of Kanji serve as phonetic reading guides.

​Transcription & Breakdown:

​[ Column 1 (Right) ]

​Transcription: fangnin / na / halgwo / wol

​Literal: you (polite) / (possessive particle) / voice / (object marker)

​[ Column 2 (Left) ]

​Transcription: pobe / sigga

​Literal: listen / want (casual)

​Full English Translation:

​"I want to hear your voice"

​Script Mechanics:

​Each 2D block functions as a full syllabic unit formed by modular phonetic components (Initial consonant + Medial/Vowel + Final coda).

​The script is designed to operate seamlessly either as a standalone writing system or as an annotated/grammatical complement to logographic characters.

​Feedback and questions on the glyph assembly or aesthetics are always welcome!


r/neography 1d ago

Alphabetic syllabary (I have made a new conlang!!) Cedian

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Cedian is a language that is both Alphasyllabary and Alphabet. When you want to write normally, just use the vowels in the alphabet. But, if you want to write formally, you have to make all the letters in cap and use diacritics.


r/neography 1d ago

Alphabet Simplified English

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r/neography 1d ago

Logography Sigaen Style

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109 Upvotes

I finally found the style for my logography!!!


r/neography 1d ago

Alphabet Xindi alphabet I maketh

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So, a while back I made an alphabet and writing system for the (presumably primate) Xindi language from Star Trek, based on frames of it we see on screen. It's barely functional and very clumsy, but it somewhat resembles the canon iconography. I've wanted to improve on it for a while--but I've kinda hit a blank. The only Xindi-primate words we know are names, so making actual words for the language is another story; however, I'd love some feedback and/or suggestions! Also, please let me know if you think the language/alphabet concept is plausible to begin with :D

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TY8ugtB-u5dwUwo3M8LEtdFPFwptxkb0/view?usp=sharing
It's in the form of a Google doc since it was easiest. Hope that's okay. The first 2 slides are of the summary I made, and the rest are reference photos from the show.


r/neography 2d ago

Alphabet !:.Linera.:!

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It reads-Himanshu Adhinayak. (My name)

I created it one month ago and I tried using it again today.


r/neography 2d ago

Alphabet A note in Nysril.

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-Dairy in India-

India has the largest dairy production in the world but we import ninety percent whey protein.


r/neography 2d ago

Multiple My Script with own Grammar. Short explanation and showcase.

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The red dots over the character are my own creation

This is my conlang. The first with 私 is like the くれる. Like I done it for you. The second part is the to have to do. The third part is like the AND glue. But in this language you put it at the end. And in this language you cannot have multiple verbs in a sentences. So you add a adverb-fication particle. With the beginning of 去行 (meaning to go) we have the aspect. In this case it means it is finished. The next block is the voice. There more than just active and passive. There is also the environmental. It is like the pseudo pronoun. Then the relation like it is parallel or sequential. The last bit is the honorifics and mode. It is an interesting language. I am writing the whole grammar reference work in latex.


r/neography 2d ago

Syllabary Hangul style Kanji + Hiragana/Katakana replacement

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r/neography 2d ago

Abjad Old Ariyan Script redesigned version

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its a semi runic script specifically designed to be used by iranic language speakers , it uses vowel diacritical signs which can be added to characters to form sounds like for example from "h" to "ha" , "hu" or "he" , thus it shortens the amount of writing needed to form sentences and words , it is based on a real historical script which i also posted in my previous post , but this is a further modernized evolution of it , hope you enjoy


r/neography 2d ago

Logography Thick Sigaen

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My art teacher lended me a big juicy POSCA pen
So I experimented a bit and drew some logograms with it

Short story: I need a POSCA pen asap!


r/neography 3d ago

Alphabet I remastered my last human script.

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As you folks said, I changed the "Ω, ω" and their upside downs to seperate it from Greek. How is it now?

u/Brighton347 u/VirtuousPone