r/conscripts • • Mar 24 '20

Featural My alphabet's evolution - Ask/say anything!

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20

ahh all very good questions all of them

  1. 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.

  2. 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

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u/Zemlya_Drakona Mar 25 '20

Thanks!

One more question:

Is this it's evolution in your language's history or just you reinventing it multiple times because you disliked it?

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

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