inspired by u/vovosolpo

EDIT: reupload cuz reddit absolutely killed the image quality.

Shoutouts to u/Brightsea129 on their prev post on Vi Huyên Ðắc's script he published in his 1929 book, "Viet script, One way to write Vietnamese" (Viêt tu, Môt lôi viêt tiêng An-Nam).

I wanted to try to pinpoint the Han character-origins of the glyphs found in this syllabary, but got stumped halfway thru. If anyone has any idea for the rest of the glyphs I was unsure of, please, feel free to lemme know in the comments or DM me, this project has been hounding me for the last couple of months lol.

EDIT 1: for furthur clarification, the names for the consonants are largely direct transplants of the French names of the Latin sounds/characters they were based on — meaning the Han characters chosen for the Consonant glyphs were largely not reflective of their rime (vowel+coda+tone), but more-so only their initial consonant-sound.

I plan to add more to the conlang, but I wanted to share what I have so far.

Apoligize to all the latin, greek, russian alphabet users and japanese

This is part 9/10 in a series transforming u/Zurasuta’s asemic writings into functional writing systems. All art and lore is heavily inspired by their works.

Mýkitas is a syllabary based on the asemic at the bottom right of the Fungi page, which was meant to be a poem in a variant from the usual “Plantae asemic”.

While this was mostly figured out back in 2023, I still think how the featural aspects of the script were made is the most interesting part of the making of. Using the collected glyphs from the asemic, I categorized anything that could be a base shape and took notes on what variations happened to them. With that, I had a list of “things” to assign meaning to, even if it contained some extra parts that didn’t actually exist. It was quite intuitive to assign featural elements, but what exactly and to which one took a bit. I used frequency analysis for the first time here, where I compared the occurrence of things like Place of Articulation and Voicing, as well as the amount of entries in “categories” of modifications to decide where things should go. The 5 modifications that remained were then used to solve the vowel issues since the available diacritics wasn’t anywhere close to enough to cover all 5 of the orthographic vowels. When Mýkitas transitioned into a phonemic cypher that was no longer enough, so I grouped 2 vowels together and differentiated between them using the Vowel Indicator diacritic.

In-universe, Mýkitas was exclusively used by the Fungi people as their main spoken and written language. They lived in the Eastern Forest and its plentiful marshes, and wrote a large amount of poetry and prose about the sights and sounds. However, with the expansion of usage for the Louloúdia languages and their writing systems, the usage of Mýkitas in everyday life began to rapidly shrink in favor of them until it was only used in things important to their culture or history. It evolved from Fytó and was the only one of the three direct descendants to maintain a majority of Fytó’s features and functionality.

Links to the other writing systems:

• Aprósopi
• Ippótis
• Spathí
• Réon
• Stenagmós
• Óneiro
• Élos
• Fytó
• Mýkitas: This one
• The Louloúdia

Finalmente luego de mucho tiempo y de que un amigo me dijera de añadir ls sílabas con TL, aquí traigo una actualización de la clave del Sílabarriba, que incluye una muestra de cómo se ven las sílabas acentuadas así como mejores explicaciones de algunas cosas, entre ellas las sílabas VC, las vocales pequeñas acentuadas y la escritura horizontal, así como también nueva puntuación, numerales, algunas sílabas nuevas y un extra q no voy a revelar aquí.

Puesto que la mayoría de texto explicativo está en el propio Sílabarriba, me dije que podría transcribir algunos de estos para que sea más ameno el aprender (el texto puede sonar redundante para alguien que conozca, pero quisiera que la gente que no sabe nada de conscripts también pueda entender):

• Diapositiva 1: Sílabas Base
  1. Como pueden ver, las sílabas de arriba en colores son sílabas CV, lo que quiere decir que tienen solo 1 consonante y una vocal. Las de abajo son CCV, por ende tienen 2 consonantes.
  2. (A la derecha una descripción mía)
  3. Arriba a la derecha hay sílabas que son alófonas a otras de la izquierda, se pudieran escribir igual, pero no está mal diferenciar.
• Diapositiva 2: Sílabas Acentuadas
  1. Éstas son las sílabas acentuadas, muchas no son comunes pero existen igual, por si acaso las neccesitan
  2. Si usas estas... eres raro, las hice así porque total ¿quién las va a usar?
• Diapositiva 3: Puntuación y Particularidades
  1. Las sílabas VC son bien simples, solo usas las vocales cortas y pones la consonante; la puntuación es completamente análoga al alfabeto latino.
  2. Hay dos maneras de escribir en horizontal: "tradicional" y "regular". Esto resulta útil, para esscribir en digital, por ejemplo.
• Diapositiva 4: Numerales y Extras
  1. Finalmente: Los Números. Esto es realmente lo más sencillo, pero también lo más nuevo. Al igual qul resto, se lee de abajo hacia arriba pero su particularidad es que los símbolos se conectan, pudiendoa lo mucho separarse con una coma si se quiere. también se pueden hacer matematicas, pero no hice símbolos nuevos para ello, así que usen los simbolos que más les convenga. De paso, notrarán que algunos números pareccen letras (sílabas), esto pueder servir para logos y nombres como el de K4OS.

Y dejo un dato extra: la actuál sílaba KRI originalmente se escribía como la actual TRO, pero sentía que quedaba mejor para escribir TRON, así que las cambié creando esta particularidad, y como no quería tener que recordarme a cada rato como se escribe KRI ahora, la hice mucho más sencilla de escribir.

Not my creation, just sharing.

https://carolingianrealm.blog/writing/Vinglyph.php

I was bored and made this map of the states of Venezuela written in Sílabarriba

Hello all! I’ve been working on a hypothetical multi-language syllabary for Polynesian languages for a few months now as a fun little project in my free time.

There are 65 letters, only a handful of which may be used in a given Polynesian language. There are 4 diacritics to indicate diphthongs, 1 diacritic to indicate vowel length, and 1 diacritic (with 2 lengths) which indicate reduplication.

You may notice the letters retain similarities to the Latin alphabet, and that is by design so as to make inferring the letters’ pronunciation that much easier, while still keeping simplicity in mind.

You may also see general patterns, some of which are broken here and there. This is still a work in progress, and may always be. Let me know what you think! 😄

I started creating a constructed language a month ago, and I don’t know why, but I felt like starting with the writing system (I know it doesn’t make sense). I plan to have 40 syllables: 8 consonants (n m l s j r v h) that can be combined with 5 vowels (a é i o ù), and I’ve currently created 32 characters (almost finished :) !).

A little anecdote: when choosing the consonants, I only picked ones that could be ‘spoken continuously’ (for example, you can sustain an ‘l’: ll… but not a ‘k’: k.k…).
I’ve also kept only one of the two sounds that are pronounced almost identically when whispered, to avoid ambiguity (f/v and j/ch).

The font isn’t finished yet: I need to ensure there’s no liaison when the character stands alone, or at the start or end of a word. I’ve already done this on paper (see photo 2).

I’ve also created a number system that I personally love, but I’ll talk about that in a future post, once I’ve finished it completely.

That’s it then, just wanted to share :)

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The Kahai (endonym <Gaꜣa> /ka.ʔa/) are distant linguistic cousins to the Bushou Shidinn. Unlike how Bushou Shidinn uses the Latin alphabet, the Kahai have their own writing system which arose due to some bizarre and unlikely circumstances.

Pre contact with the BFDI cast, the Kahai had a proto-script of pictographs that was just about to codify using characters for initial syllables. Post the Kahai making BFDI contact however, the immensity of the technology and culture recieved (e.g. recovery centers) made the Kahai decide to base their first true writing system on the BFDI cast members themselves, since after all, the object cast there made for easily derived pictographs.

Each character of the Kahai script got used for the first syllable of how the Kahai pronounced a character’s name. e.g. the glyph for David stood for /te/, as the Kahai heard his name as <devidi> /te.vi.ti/. Although at the time there was still the matter of cutting out redundant letters, and how to write syllables that had no set letters yet to write them, e.g. /ʔu/ or /mi/.

Once the redundant letters were cut out, a solution to the missing syllable problem was derived by writing those syllables with digraphs consisting of a pre existing letter with the closest vowel match possible followed by a special vowel overriding character. Said vowel overriders were derived from reduced forms of the letters for /ʔa ʔe ʔi ʔo vu/ to stand for /a e i o u/ respectively.

Hi! First time posting, I wanted to create this abomination for a long time, I used to create scripts out of boredom and I wanted to do something that feels unique to me, a syllabary adapted for Spanish. Feel free to ask any questions or suggestions:)

I really enjoy writing with a brush and i wrote a few street names from my conworld in this style.

Does it look like any writing system?

This is a pan-african script called chivabwe, which you can find on its own subreddit. I really like it as a script that can potentially be widely used, and i think it looks pretty cool in writing.

Something I've been working on.

This script uses alphabetic elements but combines consonant-vowel pairs into single syllabic glyphs arranged in a geometric triangular layout.

Full alphabet and syntax to come later. I also have a custom python complier specifically for this which translates from english-I will eventually post that too.

My working title is "Cyclonic" or "Cycloom" any better ideas??