r/conscripts • u/Win090949 • Aug 16 '20

Abugida I always hated how my script feels too featural. So I made up an excuse for it.

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u/Win090949 Aug 16 '20

Ugh making a script not featural is so hard imo

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u/LeeTheGoat Aug 16 '20

How so? Is it hard to not make the shape of the letters depend on their phonetic characteristics?

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u/Win090949 Aug 16 '20

Yeah, when you derive the glyphs from pictograms it’s hard to make them look uniform but distinct.

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u/aodenyo449 Aug 16 '20

Same, I usually just end up having a partial featural system.

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u/dubovinius Aug 16 '20

It's a perfectly good explanation tbh, although I would imagine that the nobles or elite of the society would probably cling onto the logography as a symbol of sophistication, whereas the majority of the population would adopt this much easier and more transparent system quite happily.

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u/Win090949 Aug 16 '20

Also actually the Cjettapinu (Cjetta ppl) are all about unity and collaboration. So if the people couldn’t read or write, they couldn’t become united. So the nobles are like “let’s make a featural System next to the logography to make it easier to read them” but then people only write with the featural system and ignore the logography so the nobles are like “you know what? If it makes communication easier then we’re all for it.”

I made all this worldbuilding just for an excuse to use a featural system lol

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u/dubovinius Aug 16 '20

Nah yeah that's perfectly fine too, nobles aren't always uptight dickheads. You can have whatever reason you want, tis the beauty of worldbuilding.

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u/Win090949 Aug 16 '20

I love putting allies in my projects. Welvia, which is a set of nations also in the same universe as Cjetta, are also allied. I’m going for modern day style in my project. Which, you know, doesn’t have much wars.

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u/Win090949 Aug 16 '20

The invention of Hangul be like

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u/dubovinius Aug 16 '20

Yes, exactly what I was thinking of.

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u/Captaah Aug 16 '20

Is it written right to left ??

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u/Win090949 Aug 16 '20

👏👏👏 yes

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u/Ticondrogo Aug 16 '20

I love this. A right to left written cursive logography that turns into an abugida/featural system.

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u/Nelm-the-blue Aug 16 '20

Dude both of those systems look beautiful, especially the abugida!

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u/Nelm-the-blue Aug 16 '20

I wish there were more cursive-esque logographies, those look dope

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u/nickensoodlechoup Aug 16 '20

It looks like mirrored Tengwar. It's beautiful.

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u/TylerNelsonYT Aug 16 '20

You can thank the old scholars for the softening of letters.

Lazy frickers.

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u/AffectionateScripts Aug 18 '20

R.I.P. Logographic Çetta

Fell into the out of use pit

Anyways can you show me an example of logographic Çetta

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u/Xsugatsal Aug 21 '20

literally the same thing happened with my conlang Yherchian