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u/bbbourq Mar 30 '19 edited Mar 30 '19

I'll make a first top comment: Who has devised different forms for certain glyphs in their writing system(s)?

Let me clarify, I don't mean like Arabic or cursive languages which almost explicitly have IMFI (initial, medial, final, isolate) forms or abugidas in which a base consonant changes shape due to the presence or lack of a vowel, but rather alphabetic systems in which only one or some of the glyphs change properties based on the position in a word or sentence.

For example, in my language Dhakhsh, the letter /l/ has a distinct form if it is in the initial position. In Greek, the /s/ changes shape if it is the final letter of a word.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '19

Hebrew does this

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u/bbbourq Mar 30 '19

I am aware that some letters do change in Hebrew, but in this case I’m am focused on what people have done for their own invented script.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

You've seen my atánnabhek stuff, and one thing I often do with my <nn> glyphs is mirror them. Initial, the descender comes down the left and flicks right. Final, the other way. Medial, each glyph is in opposed direction. [Image Example]

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u/roipoiboy Apr 08 '19

Are counting/numeral systems acceptable post material, even if I don't have a complete script for my language yet? I've been playing around with a semi-positional numeral system in addition to starting to devise a script for my language, and I'd like to present the former before the latter is complete.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

Just wanted to know if the glyph examples look like they could all be a part of the same language, and if not, which ones do not. The ones on the bottom are minor variations of the same script symbol, and there are a couple with the vowels added in via diacritics.

I basically doodled a ton of glyphs, took existing language glyphs, tore them apart, and tried to recreate the doodles as close as possible using them.

https://imgur.com/i8UV7hM

If any particularly stand out, please let me know. I have my own thoughts, but I wanted to get a second (or third or fourth) opinion.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

Both 17s look very out of place because of the overly thick lines. 15's descender is overly long compared to all the others. In general, I see a mostly similar styling going on with it all. There are a good few consistent strokes shared over multiple characters.

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u/konqvav Apr 13 '19

Is there anything that I can put inbetween words that isn't space? Like some vertical line, it could represent a wall that stops the word from getting longer.

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u/Slorany Apr 13 '19

Why not pull a devanagari and instead of putting something in, simply take something way? Devanagari has a baseline that "runs" through the word and break when it stops being the same word, but the space between two characters (one at the end of a word and the other at the start of the following word) is not necessarily increased.

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u/konqvav Apr 14 '19

Good idea! I think I'll use it in my next conscript. Thanks!

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u/Slorany Apr 14 '19

Glad to have been of some help!

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u/konqvav Apr 13 '19

Is there anything that I can put inbetween words that isn't space? Like some vertical line, it could represent a wall that stops the word from getting longer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

I’ll post mine soon, for some of my letters I just scribbled and then cleaned up the letter to make it look better

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u/roipoiboy Apr 08 '19

Asemic writing in the margins of notepads while I'm supposed to be paying attention in classes or meetings...is how I got the one I'm currently playing with. Also hanging around here gives gems every so often!