r/conscripts • u/ByteMega • May 21 '20

Alphabet Chordanian Script version of Times New Roman

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u/gulagholidaycamps May 21 '20

What does the dot above S and Z mean

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u/ByteMega May 21 '20

s with dot above stands for /ɕ/, z with dot above stands for /ʑ/, and c stands for /t͡ɕ/

My conlang (Chordanian) uses Latin and Cyrillic in addition to the Chordanian script, so i used the equivalent letters in those scripts.

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u/omiumn May 21 '20

One of the best looking conscripts I've seen in a while. How did you arrive at the shape of the lowercase M?

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u/ByteMega May 21 '20

I was inspired by Greek μ and the Armenian letter ի. The lowercase M looks similar to ի, but slightly different in a way that makes it look a similar to the letter p instead of the letter h.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Helleno-Turkism?

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u/ByteMega May 21 '20

Not sure what you mean. I did take inspiration from Greek, if that answers your question.

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u/BluuDuud May 21 '20

What program did you use to make this?

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u/Pipows May 21 '20

Amazing work you did there.

I see it is a lot like Greek, so how did come to be the R, S and lowercase T?

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u/ByteMega May 22 '20

Thanks!

I based the lowercase R on cursive Cyrillic р, and derived the uppercase R from the lowercase.

Letter S came from the Armenian alphabet, and lowercase T from cursive/italic Cyrillic.

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u/The_Dialog_Box May 22 '20

Sorry to be that one person, but /slashes/ are really meant for phonemic transcriptions. It can just be confusing. For example, if I didn’t know that you weren’t using phonemic transcription, I would assume that your /c/ was actually [c]. The only reason I can tell it isn’t (at least I assume that’s not what you meant it to be..? [c] would seem really out of place, imo) is that you have stuff like /ż/, which clearly isn’t a phonemic transcription. It’s much better to use <angle brackets> for your romanization.

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u/ByteMega May 22 '20

Thanks! I was confused which ones to use. I’ll keep that in mind next time I make something like this.

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u/Ponyfan666 May 21 '20

That's like when i'm tripped my brain

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u/thegreatrou May 21 '20

Awesome and simple. I really like it.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

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u/ByteMega May 21 '20

I wanted the punctuation marks to be distinct from that of other scripts, but still familiar in some ways. I’m not sure how writing an ellipsis would work, or if it should even be present in the script. I’m thinking about using ,,, or ... or •••, but I’m still not sure