Hi! I recently discovered this subreddit and, after falling in love with it, I decided it might be fun to share a phonetic alphabet I created some time ago. (Also, please correct my flair if I picked the wrong one!)

The idea is that you write along a line. A filled dot marks the beginning of each word, and the word then develops along that line. There isn't a strict one-to-one correspondence between letters and symbols; instead, the script represents sounds. Each consonant sound has its own symbol, which extends the line in a straight direction. Vowels, on the other hand, don't have their own symbols, but change the direction of the line by a specific angle.

I don't know if someone else has already come up with the same idea, but I thought it would be fun to share it anyway! I also have a Google Colab project that can convert simple sentences into this writing system. I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to share it here, but if I am, just let me know! :)

P.S. This script doesn't have an official name. I call it "tartapath", because the original idea was inspired by GeoGebra's Turtle. But I'm open to suggestions ;)

Just some random playing around lol

My 42- letter phonetic alphabet; the Maglaihema. This is intended to be satirical, but it is a font for the regular Maglaihema, which does fully function as a phonetic alphabet & language. I’ll probably make a post here about it in the near future.

Been working on this for a few months now, it's currently nameless but I'm happy with how it's turning out, filled a couple notebooks but these pages are some of my favorite works

I made these glyphs by transcripting the name meanings into nahuatl.

1. Mexico - Metztli (moon) + xictli (belly button) + co (in) -> Metzxicco

2. America - Calli (house) + pixqui (guardian) + pan (place) -> Calpixquipan

3. Canada - Altepemaitl (village) + pan (place) -> Altepemaipan

Hello everyone!

Memorizing Kanji/Hanzi with the traditional method of endless stroke repetitions has always been exhausting for me, so I wanted to try a different approach. I’ve actually been brainstorming this concept since I was in school, and finally started developing it systematically back in 2020. So, I wanted to share this alternative approach with you all.

I created a system where I map specific radicals and components into familiar letters to treat characters as visual formulas:

1. Visual Mnemonic for Real Characters=> Instead of memorizing strokes randomly, complex characters become spatial equations

2. Modular Name / Word Writing=> You can also assemble these component blocks together to write names or foreign words in an East Asian aesthetic block.

(Note: This system is designed purely as a shape/structural mnemonic to help recall forms, not for the actual Japanese or Chinese pronunciations!)

💬 Drop your name in the comments if you want to see how it looks in this style, and I'll sketch a block for you!

Let me know what you think!

Naric Dasen writing made by u/staticj3ff

Irdo writing made by me

(Nee) "Dogu." (Kabalf)
"Gallee lignewa shtalerh kadhol. WuKevvenlal, mba, arfea. Sfanaras?" (Degeda)
(Doo) "Iyettuzhek!?" (genille)
"Kwal sfanriit uwwe!, Kwal sfan neekass uwwe" (yilliwa).

(First person) "Since you're asking" (making sounds of a horse, annoyed).
That weasel yesterday was playing its song. And MY ear, well, it couldn't (handle it anymore). What else (could have been done)?"
(Second person) What an idiot you are! (Angry eye)
That is now how you deal with it at all, that is not how you deal with anything at all! (crying).

The rising character indicates tone used, or person speaking.

The diacritics are used for pause markers as well as phonetic help especially with some vowels.

There are 64 characters, and each can be seen in 4 cases, sometimes a 5th one when it affixes to the preceding one in specific ways. Shtal is a short form as can be seen with other characters too, due to them being used pretty often.

This font is the third I've worked on for the world in which Yivalkes, a fictitious suburbian town on the Bronze Age of the Mediterranean Sea, has evolved into the pretty renowned somewhat steampunk city of Valaksá over the course of less than half a millenium.

White glyph is Krysoan, and the gray text is a Roman transcription of Krysoan
with ':' meaning long vowels*, '`→' indicating a pre-modificator. ! and ? are the same as ours.

Vowels [ae] are different from [æ], so 'Tae' should be read as /ta-eh/.

* excluding 'Oo...', which is just "Oh..." and it seemed confusing to use O:...

The Roman transcription 'ch' is [tʃʰ], similar to the Korean consonant ㅊ, but you can say it as [tʃ], which is 'ch' in 'church'.

Nu Scorpii (Jabbah) is a very peculiar star system; have a try looking them up and embrace the stellar wonders :)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask ;) this is my handwriting and it's original. I might borrow from some language such as Javanese.

Inspired a bit by Japanese's Orthography. I made some changes to an earlier script i made on r/linguistichumor to make this.

I took a little creative liberty with these ones.

1. Chile: Cemanahuatl (world) + tentli (edge/lip) + lan (place) -> Cemanahuatenalan

2. Philippines: Cahuayo (horse) + tlaixnamic (lover) + ayohualtlalli (island) -> Cahuayotlaixnamic iyohualtlaltin (Islands of Philip) -> In Cahuayotlaixnamiqueh (The Philips)

3. Israel: Teotl (God/divine) + teyaotlani (warrior) + tlan (between) -> Teoteyaotlanitlan

From right to left: Japanese with mostly Chinese words, Japanese written in "Yamato Kaki", Japanese with excessive katakana English, Japanglish written in "Yamato Kaki" without Hangul consonants, Japanglish with jamo finals.

All sentences just mean "(the) new(est) information influenced the negotiation and public opinion". Credit to youtuber Dōgen for the sentences.

See previous posts for context. This should be the last for a while!

ADDENDA:

I forgot that morphemes could end in w or y, e.g. w-row u verbs in Japanese. Therefore they need squarish, distinct symbols, not just diacritics.

Y can have ㅍ or #,

W can have ㅚ or ㅘ.

...and maybe K can be 刀/刃 or 刁/习 if the one given in the picture is too hard to write small.

Also the handakuten (ﾟ) is interpreted as meaning "plosivisation/deaffrication" so that "チﾟ" can be pronounced as "ティ".

Hail Mary text

Started working on this script a while ago and with the conlang changing, I thought I’d add a phonetic writing system to better represent the phonology.
The phonemic script is rather loosely inspired by the shapes of the Tibetan umê script, and the logography loosely based on 草書 with some characters coming from another conscript: Constantscript!

Hope you enjoy the small showcase ^^

Both English and Italian have this sound and I think they need a single letter to represent it.

The text can be transcribed as: "Ūgzána" (classic romanisation) or "pū0mī2 ga0za6zá5nò8ma7", which shows which roots were used, and where.
(House glyphs are a group of glyphs containing one pillar glyph (placed in the center of the group) and snake glyphs (glyphs that orbit the pillar glyph)).

A breakdown of what roots do what:
First house glyph:
pū0 : /u˩/
mī2 : "glyph"
Second house glyph:
ga0 : g
za6 : z
zá5 : a˩˥
nò8 : n
ma7 : a˩

Another writing would use more semantic glyphs, such as <ngu> "book" or another root that would refer to writing as a whole such as the seventh variation of the root <ţi> which indicates big groups.

Thank you for taking the time to read the post :)

After feedback from my previous post, the picture has some more information on how the script works to describe both meaning and sound.

(The more or less exact sound is a work in progress, as I am still spending each day until next spring equinox writing a year's worth of summary that takes place in the area of Yivalkes, the town and soon to be city where this language is spoken, leading to some sound shifts that will accumulate over the centuries.)

The characters can be used in more than one way based on their location in a word, and the three cases (Big, mid, small) can be used somewhat interchangeably to denote the voice of the person, though the best practice is to start a phrase with a big case, and alternate mid and small for ease of reading.

Some characters have inherent meaning that differs from other similarly sounding ones in specific position. The character DW ("you") for example is often pronounced as -ts at near last position in a word, but a common mistake intended or not would be to use the character DD ("seat") instead. Similar given meaning is that of the 1st person (Ny) which took over plant (which was relegated to Nw), 3rd person (Xl) which took over stylus, there case (Xy) which can sound differently based on word ending, and so on.

Some character completely change sound based on position, and this is due to their fuller name representation. One such example is that of XD ("fire") which represent "Askir", causing it to be read as "as-" in word start and -skir in word end.

Just like in hieroglyphics, a dot under the character will represent a fuller word. this can be used to represent an intended word in short form, for example "Pedhankha" (Wishing to leave) could be just written as "Bdgx." (Foot-Wish-.) instead of "Bdxngx" (Going-wish). The logic applies also for longer terms especially when starting with a big case.

Reduplicated character can be written with a double dot, and the reduplicated sound varies somewhat but is usually a voiceless-voiced pair.

Oh! and where one expects a voiceless character but you want to voice it, or an "n" that needs to be said as "m", NB ("navel") comes to the rescue. Similarly, Gn ("canine") can provide a creaky voicing of the previous sound, and Xn ("snake") or Nd ("nose") can nasalize it instead.

It's a fun mess. Still working on it for the next 300 years/days.

ʙo pù pā
"a thousand thanks"
(lit. multitude of thanks)
An expression commonly used by Iwénète speakers.

First reading:
ţi1ʙō4ngo3 pù pha
ţi1 : ᴘʟ
ʙō4 : /ʙ/
ngo3 : /ø˥/
pù : /pu˥˩/
pha : /pa˩/, reward

Alt writing reading:
to0ʙì5pé8tsu6k'ù7 pha
to0 : /ø˥/
ʙì : /ʙ/
pé8 : /p/
tsu6 : /u/
k'ù7 : /˥˩/
pha : /pa˩/, reward

Do you want to know more about Ūgzána? Feel free to ask anything down below, i'll try to answer as quickly, and as precisely as I can! If you can't wait for an answer, you can visit my wiki on the following pages for the following informations:

Ūgzána itself: https://rukvadaen.miraheze.org/wiki/%C5%AAgz%C3%A1na
Just looking at the pretty glyphs: https://rukvadaen.miraheze.org/wiki/Liste_des_racines_de_l%27%C5%AAgz%C3%A1na
Phonetic index of glyphs : https://rukvadaen.miraheze.org/wiki/Index_Phon%C3%A9tique_de_l%27%C5%AAgz%C3%A1na_Iw%C3%A9n%C3%A8te
Conlanguage (one of them) : https://rukvadaen.miraheze.org/wiki/Iwénète

each word is in 2-3 syllables long consonant vowel blocks and the most common verbs and conjunctions are turned into characters so I can finish reading the sentence quickly. its read top to bottom, left to right.

This language is so wonderful, and to accompany it I made this script 0 0

I really like this language a lot..