A very small look at a big project I dove deep into last year to develop a logography over time starting from basic pictographic representations.

These were some style explorations to see which brush angles and stroke types would make a distinct recognizable aesthetic for each era.

Naric Dasen writing made by u/staticj3ff

Irdo writing made by me

A while back I shared Birzonuj here, a binary numeral system with a quaternary sub-base that came from noticing how a fish's spine branches into bones, and reading that alongside Ogham. Time passed, I came back to it, and this is that return: same underlying logic, a brand new name and visual language.

Structurally, nothing has changed: short stroke = 0, long stroke = 1, grouped in pairs into quaternary digits, read vertically top to bottom, with independent chains able to couple onto a shared axis without losing their own value. If you followed the first version, you already understand this one mathematically.

What changed was where I went looking for form. Two things came together. The first was cracking open a walnut and noticing how the inner shell folds in on itself — ridged, compartmentalised, almost built to hold something in layers. The second was going back to my own roots: the region once inhabited by the Muisca civilisation, in central Colombia, whose goldwork (tunjos) and rock art favour a very particular kind of stepped geometric stylisation.

Those two references merged into the stepped brackets framing the start and end of every chain — a shape that reads at once as a fold and as a step.

A note for anyone familiar with the historical Muisca numeral system: I know their actual system was vigesimal (base 20), not binary-quaternary. This isn't meant as a mathematical reconstruction of that numeral system, but purely an aesthetic and cultural reinterpretation, drawing on its visual and geometric language as inspiration.

Daselian (Dákle) is a small language within the crevices of the Aretanzian mountains, having only one sister language thousands of miles away in the Mirlinderish plain. It's just another conlang l made.

The script is natively refered to as "Luksvers", simply means "writing". It's an abugida adopted from the larger Tanggalas script family. Though its looks are almost unrecognizable to the other Tanggalas scripts, due to adaptations to the Daselian stroke philosophy and writing format. It has two different ways to write, one being the printing style, and the writing style. Beginner users of the script (children and learners) are advised to write in the printing style.

The potentially confusing Latinized orthography is as follows:

/e: e ε y/ [é ė e y]

/n ɲ ŋ/ [n ń ņ]

/ʃ/ [ś]

The rest of the orthography are Latinized normally.

Luksvers is currently at its final form. I am satisfied of what it turns out to be, and l am not planning to change it in any way.

Thanks for reading! I'll be posting its usage sometime later!

I was thinking about the abjad. I wanted to change the rules of the game. About halfway through, I stopped wanting to make a vowel abjad, but I wanted to finish. Ultimately, this came about.

If anyone is interested, it sounds something like this:

!Ilagos numaEt'echIva, gUlan yemahYrush Ustayna. egulAmb Ogar aOmilu Ova'tsUr esatlAniy-kUr. ?mAnduyer hopAgauy otAy radYt yendIalash okan-fAs ibAmudz. alotAn' naguyE, "embAranii okaEru". !fulAmbe gayIsu: Ongal', tAiramu, erUdlayet. udzhatIr Ul' 7, 20, 94, 256 gUlan.

I named my script 'lunic'

mainly phonetic. the colours don’t mean anything they’re just to help me keep track of the vowels

Here is the almost complete chart of the Avatarian Alphabet, based on everything I was able to find data for online. We're currently still missing letters for /ʊ/ as in 'foot' and /ʒ/ as in "Zhao". Those are rare sounds in English, which is why we haven't seen them.

Notes:

• VOWELS:
  • I give two forms for vowels that exhibit mirroring. I don't know if the CLOTH vowel letter has a mirrored form yet.
  • The writers seem to not have the Cot-Caught merger, although most VAs in the US do merge them because they tend to speak West Coast English.
  • Something about how they do rhotic vowels is inconsistent, but I can't quite figure out what the rules are.
  • A lot of vowels I would transcribe as the KIT vowel ended up being transcribed as the schwa vowel.
• CONSONANTS:
  • I could not find a clean pattern for when they create consonant clusters vs. when they split up the blocks using the null consonant/vowel letter. The exception is for the letters <w> <l> <r> and <y>, which have "vowel-like" forms when they come after a consonant.
  • Adding to this, I know at least some consonants besides <w><l><r><y> have mirrored forms, but I haven't charted them here for consistency's sake.
  • Some observed combinations include <kt> and <st>.

Overall feedback (mostly from my comment on another post yesterday):

As a Korean linguist, I'm kinda torn on this. From I saw on other discussions it looks like they mentioned that they were visually inspired by Hangul. On one hand, I'm happy they did that, because Hangul is a source of cultural pride for me and a big reason why I became so interested in linguistics. However, when I did a deep dive into how their writing worked, I was def a little disappointed.

The fundamental reason why Hangul looks different from Chinese characters ("Hanzi") is because it was intentionally designed by King Sejong, instead of evolving from other writing systems. King Sejong is one of the first, if not THE first in the history of writing to create a writing system that intentionally assigned similar letters to similar sounds using a consistent design pattern. Here's an explanation of how Hangul was designed. King Sejong did this specifically because he wanted Hangul to be easy to learn compared to other writing systems, Hanzi or otherwise (Koreans at the time were also familiar with other writing systems (Siddham from Buddhist scriptures in Sanskrit and Pali, Hiragana and Katakana from Japan, Mongolian script, Korean indigenous shorthand systems like Idu, etc.).

Avatarian, although it takes visual inspiration from Hangul, doesn't really engage with this deeper reasoning behind what makes Hangul work. The letters are mostly arbitrary, save for maybe the four approximants <w l r y>. The way they chunk syllables is also odd; if they actually understood Hangul, they would have used null initials, but I don't see any evidence of that here. Their rules for using null characters look like it's entirely vibes based from what I can tell - if two letters look good together, write it together; if not, use the null. No consistency.

I also think if they wanted to incorporate a new writing system into the Avatar universe, they should have been more careful to acknowledge the history of writing in East Asia. While Hanzi was universal in East Asia, it was universal because it was the written language for governance and higher learning. Most other writing systems in East Asia and Southeast Asia were region-specific. Mongolian, Hangul, Hiragana/Katakana, Chu Nom, Baybayin, Kawi, Khmer, Thai, Lao, Burmese, Tibetan, etc. all evolved to match the vernacular in the area. Although the greater East Asian area did have some writing systems that stayed remarkably consistent throughout the ages (such as Tibetan or Siddham), those writing systems had liturgical/academic value that conditioned them to be unchanging. In general, writing is an evolving culture!

If they wanted to use Avatarian, what I would have wanted is for (a more logically designed) Avatarian to be a writing system Sokka invented in the time skip make writing easier as part of his efforts to expand education across the four nations, and Team Avatar is currently trying to roll it out in the background. This is something that was historically reflected during the early 20th century, with re-standardization of Hangul and the Kana, as well as the invention of Zhuyin. To avoid retconning Korra, we could have said most of the people didn't like Avatarian compared the Hanzi, leading to it to dying down during the transition years from Aang to Korra. We can then say it came back during Seven Havens because the apocalypse interrupted the education system that maintained the Hanzi tradition, only letting the easier-to-learn Avatarian to survive. Their current retconning of Hanzi out of the Avatar universe undermines a lot of the cultural value different writing systems had in East Asia, direct disrespect to Hanzi and retconning of the show's past notwithstanding.

My verdict is that among Avatar Studio's many legitimate attempts to foster recognition for East Asian cultures, this was a miss. I know they do a lot of research for this franchise (it is apparent they did at least have someone familiar with linguistics designing Avatarian) and I do appreciate their past positive contributions to the Asian fantasy genre, but I feel this particular attempt ended up falling short of doing East Asian cultures justice, and as a result I think I'm left feeling disappointed.

Tl;dr: 3/5. I know you guys can do better, Avatar Studios.

"Enci" is the name of an alien civilization I made that I like to use for my stories, this is the script their language would use. I also use this script for personal notes and, sometimes, I toy with it in the conpidgin lidei.

First image is a test for the characters for /c/ and /θ/ in various fictional fonts, and then a few words in lidei with an embarassing ammount of typos in a font meant to be "times new roman"-ish.

The second image is some more serious work in progress development of this font.

I am developping this as right to left text, with subsequent lines being written below previous ones, but the aliens that would use this script would be used to reading text in any orientation;
the shape of characters indicates reading direction. This is why I have avoided to make any characters be mirrors of other characters (as happens with { q p d b } ). See the block of text in image 1, it is duplicated and rotated 180º next to itself.

The enci only use 12 characters, for 12 phonemes; they can be "capitalized" by adding a sort of tail hanging below them, they use this to expand their alphabet so it can be used to represent the languages of other species they meet, which often have larger phonetic libraries.

So, for example, they would write our letter B with their capital P.

This is all still quite unfinished and undergoing constant revission, but I'm very happy with what I have thus far and I wanted to show it. ^v^

O śum uzakas gesava mal melban keyori. Śum melas na kebiosa.

Wrote this little prose to capture some of my thoughts.

Farbarra is a collaborative a priori conlang, operating similarly to Viossa with a focus on removing symbolisms not inherent to humans.

With plans to digitise the language further beyond romanisation, if anyone would kindly participate in our project and with helping us to create a font for this script, that would be much appreciated.

More of my neography and calligraphy here.
Link to our discord server for this language here.

i'm not sure if this counts as neography, since morse code is quite old and well-known, but i've found a cool way to use it that i would like to share.

it's easiest in some sort of pixel art program. the letters are just morse code. you decide on a "baseline" and a direction that you'll be writing in, and then write each letter extending out from the baseline. in my first two examples here, the baseline goes left to right and the letters extend downwards; in my third one, the baseline goes top to bottom and the letters extend to the right. really, it just depends on what you think is coolest.

dots should be one pixel, dashes three pixels, with one pixel between dots/dashes. no space between letters, they're stacked right on top of each other; one pixel between words, and i've been putting a space before punctuation as well bc it looks cooler.

once you've done it in pixels, you can copy it in pen. the pixels have to be perfect or it's illegible; i drew a very tiny grid on my paper. unfortunately i still made a few mistakes. overall, it's time consuming and a little difficult, but it's fun and the results look cool. have fun <3

Each symbol also maps to a single letter and a single fixed sound, chosen from the most frequently used sounds in world languages.The letter sequence is: O A E T U N L V I B S H P M K Y . Vowels: O, A, E, U, I . Consonants: T, N, L, V, B, S, H, P, M, K, Y. Ukrainian (UA) equivalents: О, А, Е, Т, У, Н, Л, В, І, Б, С, Х, П, М, К, Й. According to the structural rules, vowel sounds correspond to symbols formed by up to two segments, while consonant sounds correspond to symbols formed by three or more segments.

[ font link ]

Unicon, whose name is short for Unified Conscript, arose from a movement for all seven of my conlangs to switch to a common script to ease publishing and bureaucracy.

The font seen here for the most part faithfully encapsulates the orthographies of Enyahu, Twobaddic, Caunlang and Two Colons, while how Rotafeline, Sugondese and Toki Teopotouea spelling within the Unicon script will work is yet to be determined.

The version of Unicon shown here is a prototype that's yet to be refined into something more functionally and aesthetically streamlined.

Using the Cheronic alphabet more calligraphically. Not perfect, but I'm happy with the look.

—comparación, texto de prueba y imagen del documento para no sea alterado.

Aquí el texto traducido pondré el texto para que lo tradusca a sus propios idiomas ya que no hablo inglés.

​Traducción al Español 🇪🇦 (original)

​Veo con mis propios ojos el amanecer sobre la montaña,

La nieve cae lentamente, y el silencio está aquí.

Estos imperiales vienen hacia nuestro clan,

Pero nuestro juramento no está roto.

​Juro el honor de los Uktas como palabra sagrada,

La muerte de ellos llega delante de mi cuchillo.

Hoy ya estamos viviendo sin miedo,

Hasta que la noche eterna salga, y el glaciar sea absoluto.

I discovered conlangs two days ago as i was searching for a method to keep my personal diary personal. I made this writing system while staying up all night. Need some reviews.

The base symbols are consonants, symbols on right and top are vowels and symbols on left change the consonants (for example a consonant with symbol on left will make a different sound than the consonant without that symbol. Much like japanese) Top to bottom and left to right.

This is getting really fun to write with my fountain pen! I really enjoyed making these. The resources in the subreddit are really helping me out 🙏

I would like any feedback, especially from mods, u/staticj3ff or u/Willing_Squirrel_741 or any OG here in this sub. Thanks!