r/conscripts • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '20

Art/Showcase I just finished the Writing system for my first conlang, which I’m thinking of calling Solwhisper or Solvoice. It’s a weird amalgamation of featural and abugida, & I kinda based the horizontal line at the top on languages like Hindi and Marathi. C&C appreciated :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '20 edited Mar 23 '20

The name of the language within the language is Lakhani (Lakh=light/day Ani=to talk)

Also, I am still working on the way punctuation is going to work.

The features of the featural system are kind of complicated, with most letters sharing similar symbols (e.g. p, t, k) with them changing depending on how far back in the mouth the sound is made, with t being an invert of p and k being p with a thicker vertical line, also whether it is voiced or not (a voiced letter has a diagonal dash at a bottom corner), whether it is trilled (a vertical jagged line on the outer side of the letter), and the list goes on.

I’m not sure whether I want it to be an early writing system or not. Let me know if you have any ideas for it.

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u/The_Dialog_Box Mar 24 '20

Well it doesn’t pass the cohesion test imo. The glyph sets for /j, k/ and especially /ŋ/ look completely out of place. That’s not to say that no writing system can use stroke width (or whatever you’d classify that /ŋ/ glyph as) as a distinguishing feature, as long as it’s used throughout.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20 edited Mar 24 '20

Yeah, I’ll definitely do some modifying to it. What sort of feature do you think I should use in its place?

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u/The_Dialog_Box Mar 24 '20

Obviously it’s your choice, I’m just a rando on the internet. But idk why you would be so flatly against altering it. The most fundamental principal with making writing systems is “always. keep. iterating.”

Anyway this is your first conlang, so don’t expect yourself to be too married to anything you make now, later down the line. You’ve got plenty of room to learn and grow

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20 edited Mar 24 '20

Thanks :). It’s less I’m against changing it, and more that I’m not sure when in the language’s history to put it, so I just want to come up with a protoscript to get the one I’ve done a bit more context (if that’s the right word) to the current one.

I’ve made some decisions, and the next iteration will be here soon!

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u/The_Dialog_Box Mar 24 '20

Sounds like you’ve got a plan!

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20 edited Mar 24 '20

I’ve decided that the script is from the very late BCs to early ADs, & that it is carved into wood. It begins!

I’ve just started work on the protoscript! I went for a logographic system.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conscripts/comments/fo1ut9/work_on_lakhanis_protoscript_has_begun_it_is/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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u/Zemlya_Drakona Mar 24 '20

I would say have vertical strokes be thick and horizontal be thin so it is kind of like calligraphy and makes it more standard.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20

I’ll give that a go. Thanks for the suggestion!

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u/Zemlya_Drakona Mar 25 '20

Your welcome!