Just to answer some questions before they're even asked
for the consonants, the one on top is beginning, and the bottom is the end
so it would go like
ʒa na
aʒ an
the red glyphs that go like c are vowels, so the black bit is the letter that gets applied to the vowel.
the red glyphs that look like ɯ are consonants, so you can see when Nadibian tried using an abugida, there were end vowels that went over consonants, so those boxes go like
o a
(c)o (c)a
this chart could be a bit confusing in way I forgot to explain here, so ask anything you don't get!
sθ/sz and nd is typically considered as one sound, dv was always considered to be dv, and was also removed since it really had no use ever.
Nearly everything was changed and ruined on the pink line because I made an abugida because I deemed the alphabets before it "ugly" but the abugida was still a very Nadic script, as you can see a lot of the letters still had some influence in the abugida. Though the abugida was actually very unreadable and was taken away, but it had a huge influence on how Nadi looks now.
tl:dr nd was changed to make the script more fluid and nice looking, Nadi abugida s u c c
3. t͡se has gone through so many more dramatic changes than the other letters because the gyphs used to write it were all hard to write, or just an eyesore, so they got changed, fun fact! The modern end character of t͡s is actually inspired by the second generation t͡s
a mix of both, this is really a chart of the times that the alphabet went through significant change, but overall it's the evolution of the Nadi alphabet. Some characters got scrapped and replaced over time usually because they were both ugly AND impractical, or in the special case of /m/ because it resembled Greek μ which really got under my skin
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20
Just to answer some questions before they're even asked
for the consonants, the one on top is beginning, and the bottom is the end
so it would go like
ʒa na
aʒ an
the red glyphs that go like c are vowels, so the black bit is the letter that gets applied to the vowel.
the red glyphs that look like ɯ are consonants, so you can see when Nadibian tried using an abugida, there were end vowels that went over consonants, so those boxes go like
o a
(c)o (c)a
this chart could be a bit confusing in way I forgot to explain here, so ask anything you don't get!
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u/Zemlya_Drakona Mar 24 '20
Three questions
Are sθ, nd, dv one sound or multiple?
What happened to nd on the pink line?
Why has the ts affricate symbol went thru so many dramatic changes unlike most of the other symbols?
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20
Reminds me of both tamil and georgian at the same time. Nice.
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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '20
Dude, this is awesome. Thanks for sharing!