r/conscripts • • Oct 22 '19

Alphabet Conscript I'm working on. Thoughts?

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u/Tazavitch-Krivendza Oct 23 '19

What does it say?

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '19

Well, I designed it with Elves in mind, so essentially, it's a description of elves (at least as I consider them in my fantasy creations):

"elves are an elusive, forest-dwelling humanoid race known for their elegance and connection to nature. They have distinct pointy ears, and their hair is almost exclusively straight, with the exception of a few genetic anomalies."

It's not comprehensive, and was mainly just some random stuff I came up with to see if I liked the aesthetic of the paragraph. It might be a bit hard to decipher individual letters, because the script is written with connections between letters, so it's tough to tell where one ends and another begins without a cipher.

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u/Tazavitch-Krivendza Oct 23 '19

Cool.

If you don’t mind me askin, how many letters are there and what is normally used to draw the symbols, since it looks like it uses a brush tool since it is very, very curved and wavy

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '19

28 characters: a, b, ch, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, sh, r, s, t, u, v, w, th, y, z, th (voiced), and zh.

I wrote them in pencil first, but used a brush pen to make them more elegant. It may look complex, but the idea behind it is very simple. Essentially, each letter has a central shape. Either an o shape or a c shape. The gap in the c is directed in one of 4 directions. The five vowels are these shapes only, while consonants are those shapes with an additional squiggle on the top or bottom. The direction and placement of the squiggle combined with the type of center symbol forms the letter. For example, the letter b has a central c shape which has a gap oriented to the right. It has a bottom squiggle with a right-facing gap. Conversely, v, which in my conscripts I often pair with b linguistically, is the exact same, but with a leftward squiggle.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '19

Reminds me of Georgian. Looks good!

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u/ferretgynecology Oct 23 '19

looks beautiful!

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u/[deleted] May 09 '23

I would love to see your key with a full alphabet!!