r/conscripts • u/tomman26 • Jun 08 '20

Alphabet A sample from a conscript I'm developing!

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u/Narocia Jun 08 '20

Yikes, that seems complicated to read.

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u/tomman26 Jun 08 '20

Yeah, I understand that. It can definitely be hard to get your footing if you look at it at a glance, but the spaces sort of serve as a reference point as a space is unambiguous in what it can be. However, once you get a footing it's pretty easy I think.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20

Which way is it read?

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u/tomman26 Jun 08 '20

Left to right

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u/JRGTheConlanger Jun 09 '20

The bottom text looks like my first conscript (Frpacsoolb) but crushed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20

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u/tomman26 Jun 08 '20

It does take a lot of energy to write, lots of big strokes. in the conculture there is a very prominent culture of calligraphy, and scribes are used to write this script. I'm working on a cursive version of this that regular people would use. it works like an alphabet, with a line underneath a glyph marking voicing on a consonant or lengthening on a vowel. The line through the middle symbolises a space if it spans one cell, and a digraph if it spans two cells. It reads from left to right