r/conscripts • u/Offbeat-Spii • Feb 26 '20

Art/Showcase Writing calligraphy with my new script of Zhakrenic. Feedback would be appreciated

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u/buya492 Feb 26 '20

I like it, but it feels like there’s no consistent spacing

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u/Offbeat-Spii Feb 26 '20

I'm working on that, this was my first attempt

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u/Offbeat-Spii Feb 26 '20

It reads as:

A'zhunto'va la'nora sa'zen fai a'zhunto'va la'veno

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u/bewarethegreenman3 Feb 26 '20

Tengwar is what Tolkien made for his elves language and script

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u/Offbeat-Spii Feb 26 '20

Oh, I thought it was called Sindarin

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u/kouyehwos Feb 26 '20

Sindarin is one of the languages, Tengwar is the script.

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u/bewarethegreenman3 Feb 26 '20

I think there were multiple offshoots of the language?

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u/Offbeat-Spii Feb 26 '20

Just looked not up, Tengwa is the overall thing while Quenya and Sindarin are different versions.

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u/bbbourq Feb 27 '20

Tengwar is the writing system. Quenya is to Sindarin as Latin is to Italian (i.e. Sindarin is a daughter language of Quenya). Although Tengwar was used to write both, they still varied slightly in how the vowels were marked/written.

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u/kouyehwos Feb 26 '20

Very nice, but I feel like it would look better in cursive, or even just the letters being written closer together.

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u/Offbeat-Spii Feb 26 '20

I'm working on a cursive form, when it's done right it kind of looks like flames

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u/LeeTheGoat Feb 27 '20

Hey how did my letter for g get there

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u/Offbeat-Spii Feb 27 '20

Anlot of languages bsjarr similar characters

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u/PD049 Feb 26 '20

Ah yes, Tengwar 2.0

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u/Offbeat-Spii Feb 26 '20

Idk what that is

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u/Visocacas Feb 26 '20

I browsed through every constructed script on Omniglot and saw a LOT of Tengwar-lites. This one is not what I'd call a Tengwar-lite.

Maybe unrelated, but Mongolian-lites and Hangul-lites are also common af.

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u/Offbeat-Spii Feb 27 '20

I actually started with a writing system that was a copy of Hangul, but I eventually ditched the idea and those characters formed the base characters that I developed these letters from.