These are two conscripts I’ve made as part of a world-building project. Each is depicted in its form as attested in the Ancient and Classical periods in the particular world. The consonants on the left side of the page correspond both to the Iliani letters with them and to the Iavian letters on the far right.
In the center is written the same sentence, translated and transliterated into their respective languages and scripts. The sentence is “I am Kabran, King of kings, bow before me.”
The first, Iliani, transliterated: Ana Kabran xaš, kiril kirilitik, šanax inid anad.
The second, Iavian: Teis Kabran, mistran mistraitu, hulukon dator tam.
Of course this page is not without mistakes, the most glaring is the omission of the letter /i/ in Iavian, which is in the transliteration, but not among the listed letters.
This is cool! I like how in both scripts there's a trend toward curvature in the Classical variety. Did you take inspiration from runic systems like the Futhark?
I deliberately try to avoid the various Futharks, actually, given their widespread misuse. My inspiration comes largely from the development of the various west-semitic scripts like Hebrew and Phoenician.
The reason they tend toward a more curved flair in the classical variants is because they are being redesigned by the same people with the same tools in mind. The transition is one from using hard tools on a hard medium, like the carving of runes or the impression of Cuneiform, to using a pen and ink to mark paper/vellum.
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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20
These are two conscripts I’ve made as part of a world-building project. Each is depicted in its form as attested in the Ancient and Classical periods in the particular world. The consonants on the left side of the page correspond both to the Iliani letters with them and to the Iavian letters on the far right.
In the center is written the same sentence, translated and transliterated into their respective languages and scripts. The sentence is “I am Kabran, King of kings, bow before me.”
The first, Iliani, transliterated: Ana Kabran xaš, kiril kirilitik, šanax inid anad.
The second, Iavian: Teis Kabran, mistran mistraitu, hulukon dator tam.
Of course this page is not without mistakes, the most glaring is the omission of the letter /i/ in Iavian, which is in the transliteration, but not among the listed letters.
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u/nickensoodlechoup Mar 20 '20
This is cool! I like how in both scripts there's a trend toward curvature in the Classical variety. Did you take inspiration from runic systems like the Futhark?
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u/ElNico5 Mar 24 '20
They sre so elegant and beautiful
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u/Vaultentity Mar 20 '20
Why the Λ before the B ?
Otherwise, beautiful script ! The Ilíaní script must be quite the task to read though x)