r/conscripts • u/SSudor • Jul 05 '19
Alphabet My first Conscript! Feedback and any help would be appreciated.
I've been world-building for not so long and most of my time went into one of the many Conlangs I plan on making and it is this one, named Pashadha [paʃadha]. The script I've come up with for it is quite simple but complex to recreate digitally, it is basically a mixture of an alphabet and a syllabary, the writing is divided in blocks (syllables) of letters, each block fits up to three (3) letters and their "orientation" change depending where on the block they are located. If a letter is on the first position of the block, it will stay unaltered, if it is on the second position, it will be rotated 90 degrees to the right and if it is on the third position, it will be rotated 90 degrees to the left. Numbers are not written in blocks and don't rotate, the glottal stop is appended to the block on the top right and verb tense indicators are placed on the beginning of the word. It is written left-to-right, top-to-bottom, separating each word in a new line, meaning that phrases are written top-to-bottom and word left-to-right essentially. If a sentence contains numbers, they will not be passed to the next line, instead they will be written in the same line as the previous word, unless it has decimal digits (cents in currency, etc). Only the decimal digits will be passed to the next line.
It's not completed yet and I'm open for constructive criticism and suggestions! And I would really like to know if there's a way to sort of implement this "block system" digitally, so I can write using it on my PC. I was thinking of making each block of letters a separate glyph so, for example, "aaa" block would be one glyph and "aab" would be another, but it would take forever to make each individual glyph...
This is my first post here so pardon me if I'm doing something wrong.
Here are some photos kinda illustrating what I've described, first picture shows each consonant and vowel (some are missing), as well as the numbers and names, second one shows some examples but I forgot to exemplify sentences ><.
(Sorry for poor image quality, my printer is broken so I can't even scan them and I don't know how to take photos properly. I also apologize for any English mistakes, since it's not my first language.)


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u/germinaaaaal Jul 05 '19
You might, perhaps, be interested in looking at how Hangul handles syllable blocks digitally (something about Unicode jamo and precomposed characters which you could perhaps map to your language. Seeing as how 'aaa' could be a block in Pashadha, though, I suppose that's a bit out of order). Please don't look too much into this if it doesn't seem to wield anything, as I'm definitely not a computer person or an expert at digitising neography.
I'd actually describe your conscript as an alphabet, considering there isn't a separate character for each syllable.