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[Egein]

Just thought I'd share with you this abugida that I often use. It has no name as of now.





This text is in English and introduces the alphabet to you, dear zompist readers.

The two first lines read (I transliterate without adjustments, using · to show character boundries):

hi· so·m·pi·st,

i wa·n·te·d to show yow mi new s·k·ri·p·t a li·tt·le a·n·d te·ll yow a·bow·t we·re i·t ko·me·s f·ro·m

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It's a fairly logical system. Each vowel is attached fairly regularly to a consonant, but can stand alone where needed. The vowels are /a e i o u y ø/ and can be written long with something similar to a macron, and consonants are written long with something similar to an accute over the syllable.
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Nokinen poika

[patiku]

Woah, giant image alert! Mind making it, say, ten times smaller?

Anyway, nice script. Not much else to say.
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[Serali]

Pretty scripty!

This reminds me of your Allun script. Very good work!

Would like to see more.


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[Torco]

neat. how does it work ?

[na'oolkili]

I really like this! It's very convincing as a script. It's interesting how much it resembles both the cursive Latin alphabet and the Malayalam abugida. My only critiques are that the marks that I assume are punctuation at the top (they look like equals signs with dots) look out of place, and that certain vowel marks (the ones that are just diacritics) aren't terribly elegant like the rest of the script. I'd love an inventory of graphemes.

[Egein]

I agree about the equal sign, but those actually are yow (you), i.e. ou (two lines) and the glide y before, marked as a dot over.
The "acute" marks double consonant, while the "macron" marks double vowel. A curved line below indicates Vw, while above indicates wV.

I will try to write more properly (I wrote this in my bed in about a minute). It should look better. The sample was written quite fast, and contains some ligatures that are not very formal (for instance, when I write fast, Cu is often attached to the following character).

My favorite are the i's, which are those circles around the letters. The syllable -ti- is my favorite, it's a circle within a circle.
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Nokinen poika

[justin]

Looks nice. Might we possibly get a chart, or are you going to be mean and make us figure it out ourselves?

[TheGoatMan]

It actually reminds me a lot of minuscule Greek.
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[Silk]

You never cease to amaze me, Egein.

Yes, the script indeed does look like a mix of Greek and Tamil/Malayalam.
I remember a few years ago you posted an image of how the Allun script came about. I believe it was a chart showing the evolution of the letters. People were commenting about the fact that it looked like Tamil, but I remember that you said that it actually came from Russian. Do you still have that image? And was this script influenced at all by Allun?

[Serali]

[Silk]

Thanks, Serali! That's exactly the image I had in mind. Turns out I was wrong, it wasn't a chart of the evolution of the letters, but a chart of the syllabary.

[Serali]

[ayyub]

Hey, here's an idea. How about you keep pictures of your own scripts out of the threads about other people's scripts. You're being like Kanye West here.
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[Silk]

[Jacqui]

[Serali]

[patiku]

Do you think that when we open this thread we do it because we want to read about your conscript, which you posted here just because it vaguely resembles Egein's? No, it's because we're interested in what he's made and want to learn more about it, and your scripts are just big distractions that we have to scroll past.

You seem to have a bad habit of derailing threads about other people's conscripts into ones about your own, or just about you, and it's really annoying. If you want to talk about your own conscripts in detail, make a thread about them and leave us to talk or read about this one in peace.
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[The Count]

[justin]

[Jacqui]

[Torco]

[Mbwa]

Maybe by living in Sweden?

[Serali]

[Dampantingaya]

[Jacqui]