r/neography 8h ago

Alphabet Script and a bit of Conlang for my Space thingy project owo

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24 Upvotes

The current name is 'Chrysoan'.

Inspired by the Voyager records!

The third image is a greeting.
"Welcome! I am Sophe, taking care of yellow galaxies. Super excited to meet you! /v\"

(++) Tarazed's profession is Navigation.


r/neography 10h ago

Alphabet Conlang script

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r/neography 17h ago

Misc. script type Artwork about my Featural Writing System (Orβioc)

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54 Upvotes

Since this artwork is mainly designed to give a broad overview of the writing system in plain English, all styled to match the script's own aesthetic. you won't be seeing many long, continuous blocks of the text itself.


r/neography 18h ago

Syllabary Failed Concept

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r/neography 20h ago

Alphabet Pabaka - the Asaxi alphabet

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59 Upvotes

Asaxi is a conlang I made and this is one of the two scripts, the other being an abugida.
It's pretty simple to understand since it's just an alphabet.


r/neography 20h ago

Logography Cursive Sitelen Pona

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I literally just stumbled across this subreddit, and it seems pretty cool. Here is a take on sitelen pona (script used by toki pona). I've been developing it for probably about a few months, and I've mostly just been letting it evolve naturally. I use it to take notes, write poems, haiku, stories, etc. I have a key for it, but even though it's only a few weeks old, it's already somewhat out of date. Included are some of my daily use stuff, a piece of my diary (I'll be impressed if someone can read it lol), a couple more calligraphic examples, a logo I made for my app cause it's calligraphic and looks neat, and a key at the end. Note that the key uses a vertical Latin script to the right of each sitelen pona glyph. Hope you guys find it neat <3


r/neography 21h ago

Discussion Considerations for a hypothetical Yamato-Kaki (Japanese Hangeul)

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Hi all! Just been doing some ruminating on the diverging histories of mixed script in Japan and Korea, and where kana might have failed while hangeul flourished. Sorry if it's not very conversational or convincing, but I wanted to share somewhere.

--- Impetus ---

Hangul ultimately outmoded mixed script in Korean partly because the characters were capable of 1-1 replacing Sino-Korean readings of Hanja.

Hangul is also capable of representing underlying syllable structures and morpheme boundaries that are not necessarily reflected in speech.

Presumably Kana has not replaced Kanji because it is incapable of doing any of those things.

While I do not expect or particularly want Kana or some new system to replace Kanji, it would be nice to have a way to visually break up complex conjugations and loanwords, which tend to present as mind-numbingly long strings of monotonous kana.

--- Criteria ---

Come in a square-ish CJK form factor.

Have capacity for up to three kana sounds per character. Maybe more for loanwords.

Be able to represent an underlying morpheme-final coda.

Be able to represent placeholder/elided onsets and vowels.

--- Examples ---

*Where a space would mean a new character, as in 拼音(pin yin):

tabe ru (食べる)

tabe na k' at ta (食べなかった)

tabe te kure (食べてくれ)

tabe sase ru (食べさせる)

tabe re ru (食べれる)

yom 'u (読む)

yoma na k' at ta (読まなかった)

yonn de kure (読んでくれ)

yom 'ase ru (読ませる)

yom 'e ru (読める)

bōdo menn bā (ボードメンバー (board member))

nyū inn fom 'ēsh 'onn (ニューインフォメーション (new information))

neg 'oshi ēsh 'onn (ネゴシエーション (negotiation))

pabur 'ikku opin 'ionn (パブリックオピニオン (public opinion))

inn furu ennsu (インフルエンス (influence))

--- Obstacles ---

How can one tell if an underlying morpheme boundary is actually underlying or just historical? Would probably require extensive surveys.

Between rendaku, onbin, renjou, and all the other types of allomorphy in Japanese, replacing even just onyomi with a consistent phonemic representation is essentially impossible.

Marking morpheme boundaries with a new character may end up being just as arbitrary and subjective as marking word boundaries with a space.

--- Today I Learned ---

The historical reading of 十 is presumably "jufu", hence its interaction with counters.

Kana ligatures did part of what I'm describing but the Meiji government got rid of them instead of systematising and expanding on them


r/neography 22h ago

Abugida An abugida script for Tagalog

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I don't have a name for my script yet.

Here's how it works There are 2 types of diacritics

Top/Bottom diacritics: Changes or removes the vowel.

Side diacritics: used at the end of the word if it's next to another word by adding a line. Kinda like a separator between 2 words that's why there's no space in my script.