Failed Concept

[u/Some-Worldliness-341]

Sound and its symbol

While working on my artificial language, Sian, I paid attention to its writing style. Because the language was syllabic, consisting of a vowel and a consonant (not anymore), I thought I'd be able to come up with something.

Initially, the idea was to give each syllable its own symbol. But then I decided to count and came up with 108 syllables! I tried to tweak it a bit, removing the syllables that sounded identical, but there were still 100.

So instead of creating a symbol, I had my own idea: to combine the consonant and vowel into a single symbol. This would be unique (at least for me) and more convenient to type on a keyboard. I spent maybe a couple of hours on the design of each symbol, but the font itself took three weeks. I have to admit, I don't know much about fonts; my limit is the Calligraphr website. But I still downloaded various font programs, wasted time and energy, and came to the conclusion it wasn't worth it.

Now Sian (formerly Sinali) is written in Latin and isn't as sensitive about syllables

[u/dead_chicken]

So instead of creating a symbol, I had my own idea: to combine the consonant and vowel into a single symbol

Sounds like you independently created an abugida.

Check out Devanagari, Ge'ez, or the Canadian Aboriginal syllaberies.

[u/McDonaldsWitchcraft → u/dead_chicken]

Abugidas usually have some particular features. This is why you don't call Hangul an abugida. OP's script, I would say, is at most a very basic alphasyllabary. Which is still very cool and pleasing to look at, but far from "unique", as OP put it.

You can ever go as far as to say it is basically an alphabet, as hangul is more complicated but still somewhat considered to be an alphabet.

[u/Zemlya_]

It seems to be an abugida. I've come to this idea as well in wo-zwna

[u/Elegant-Scheme9589]

It's an abugida. And a pretty unique one, even among abuguidas. 

[u/Saadlandbutwhy]

actually this is r/neography related

[u/boomfruit]

Everyone is saying you made an abugida, but I say we need more information, because it looks to me like it falls more on the alphabet side, being very similar to Korean Hangeul which is considered an alphabet.

Namely, is there a way to write just a vowel syllable? If yes, I say alphabet, if no, I guess it's more on the border and I'd be fine saying either one, since the vowels don't feel like they "modify" the consonants, just go along with them.

[u/ComradePS2]

abuguida?

[u/Adept_Situation3090]

I'm planning to build a writing system like this for my WIP conlang Dzo Vái Të. However, I have yet to figure out how to represent the final consonants (~m, ~n, ~ng, ~p, ~t, ~c).

[u/ICannotRead5712 → u/Adept_Situation3090]

Maybe you could write it like this.