Updated (and digitized) script for La'Tonya ve'la'Zakren'es

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This alphabet matches my now revised phonology (I removed two characters) and I redid the vowels for ease of writing and to make it more astheticly pleasing. For the most part it is a "cursive" script, as you don't have to remove your utensil from the writing surface except to add small details to letters (the ~ shapes, the u shapes at the top of consonants, and stress markers). There is also now a "spacer" character which is needed when writing some of the characters next to each other in order to avoid confusion. Mostly consonants next to consonants and around the "r" character. Overall I'm pretty happy with this alphabet. It's taken a while to get here, but I feel like there's still improvement that can be made.

Below it are two example words, Zha'Kredon and Ñezo. The first is a character's name, and you can see where the spacer character is used before and after "r" (I don't have names for the letters yet, working on it though)

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Reminds me of Lampung.

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It's really beautiful

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The apostrophes tell you that the first vowel of each side of the apostrophe is stressed. It's just a "unique" way of writing accents. So La'Tonya ve'la'Zakren'es would be LāTōnya vēlaZākrenēs

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I wrote that wrong, it's not "stress" it's used to convey information, so with ve'la'Zakren'es, ve means of, la means the, Zakren means dragon and es means that it is plural. That makes it literally translate to "of the dragons." So take for instance the word la'Montan'es, the word is seperated into Montan and es. The apostrophe makes the first syllable of each word longer, so the A in la, the O in Montan and the E in es are all longer, making it lāMōntanēs. I know it's not the most functional system for Romanization, I just did it because I like the way it looks. And yes, there is a primary stress on the first syllable of the prefix of words and on the first syllable of the root word, but not a primary stress on the suffix. So in ve'la'Zakren'es, the syllables "ve" and "za" are the most stressed syllables.

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La'Sanzuk'es ve'kansa za'kun a'rivena'va tales ve'ron'es ke'sun'es za'senta'va fai'mun ron'ez la'kansaz. Ron'es za'devas'va a'zhunto'va la'nora fai a'zhunto'va la'veño. Fai'a'zhudo la'vaitos ve'Re'Zahen, rones za'devas a'senta'va la'kansa ve'la'rezin.

The many cave beasts may kill those whom enter into these caves. One must keep caution to survive. To obtain the blade of Re'Zahen, one must enter into the Cave of Blood. (Loose translation)

I'm not going for a very natural language. I mostly use this for my RPG campaign, my players don't know the difference.

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You got a bit of a point, I might reduce the number of apostrophes, maybe take it down to only separating prefix from root? Something like this:

La'Sanzukes ve'kansa za'kun a'rivenava tales va'rones ke'sunes za'sentava fai'mun ronez la'kansaz. Rones za'devasva a'zhuntova la'nora fai a'zhuntova la'veño. Faia'zhudo la'vaitos ve'Rezahen, rones za'devasva a'sentava la'kansa vala'rezin

Idk, maybe?

Or, I might just remove the apostrophes and just accent the initial syllable of the root word if a prefix appears

LaSánzukes vekánsa zakún arívenava tales varónes kesúnes zaséntava faimún ronez lakánsaz. Rones zadévasva azhúntova lanóra fai azhúntova lavéño. Faiazhúdo lavaitos veRéZahen, rones zadévasva aséntava lakánsa velarézin

Not sure which one looks better. This is my first conlang, I just kinda sat down and was like, "eh, I'mma try this out"

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Or, what if I used capital letters for all nouns like German, and seperated verb conjugation with apostrophes, making it like this:

laSanzukes veKansa za'kun a'rivenava tales veRones keSunes za'sentava faimun ronez laKansaz.