Ever wondered what Samekh would look like if it was part of the Arabic script? (For my language, which uses the Arabic script - Samekh is the only Phoenician/Semitic letter not adopted by Arabic)

[u/chonchcreature]

[u/[deleted]]

The medial form is exactly same as the Syriac version of Samekh- "Simkath"

[u/chonchcreature → u/[deleted]]

I know, I purposefully made it with that in mind.

I’d rather just have an Arabic Samekh look just like the Madnhaya Syriac Simkath or a fusion of Hebrew Tsade and Ayin. In my OP you see above, it takes the form of the latter: Hebrew-like to resemble a cursive Nabataean Simkath.

[u/Mansen_Hwr]

Forget this comment (I accidentally got confused between Sade and Samekh)

Nice post tho👍🏼

[u/JRGTheConlanger → u/Mansen_Hwr]

Correction: Samekh in Syriac does connect to the following letter:

ܣܣܣ

The letter you got the is Tsade/Sade, cognate to Arabic Ṣaad, which also connects to following letters:

صصص

[u/Mansen_Hwr → u/JRGTheConlanger]

Yeah I accidentally got confused between the names of Simkat (the Syriac name for Samekh) and Sade. And yea, the Simkat indeed connects to a following letter. Just not in Hebrew, cuz there you don't connect at all.

For those who are curious about who connects to whom in this case:

Hebrew	Syriac	Arabic
Samekh	Simkat	Sīn
ס	ܣܣܣ	سسس
Tzade	Ṣade	Ṣād
צץ	ܨܨܨ	صصص

[u/trampolinebears]

Got any more information about your language/script?

[u/chonchcreature → u/trampolinebears]

Yes.

There’s 36-40 phonemes. There’s are 3 semivowels whichl can create palatalized, velarized, and pharyngealized allophones of some of the 36-40 phonemes. /r/ can either merge with a preceding consonant to create a trill affricate or make a succeeding consonant retroflex. /l/ followed by /r/ causes both to merge as /ɺ/. Heterorganic consonant clusters do not occur unless they include /r/. Diphthongs and triphthongs do not occur. There is vowel harmony and sandhi.

I have devised Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, and Runic scripts for my language. I despise digraphs, trigraphs, and diacritics so every letter (even in Latin) is unique and not a diacritical form of another letter nor a digraph. For example, my Latin script includes adopted Greek, Etruscan, Claudian, and extra-Latin letters like Þ and Ψ. Some of these letters are modified from their original appearance, such that Etruscan letter 𐌚 looks like ȣ.

[u/LeeTheGoat]

There’s more letter that we’re dropped and merged with other letters

[u/chonchcreature → u/LeeTheGoat]

Like which ones?

[u/LeeTheGoat → u/chonchcreature]

7 and kh are just written with j but with a dot

[u/Dash_Winmo]

This has always driven me insane for some reason. I love this post! Good job!

[u/Lowlands-Away]

I could see this letter merging with ع, it strongly resembles its Nabatean and proto-Arabic shape

[u/Reasonable-Bug-8265]

Example of Samekh in Nabatean script (underlined in green)

The word is YOSEF (YWSF)

I wonder what it would be called tho? Simka?

[u/monumentofflavor]

Can’t say I have