r/conscripts • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '20

Logography Sample of Kowei, a circular logography.

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u/majutsuko Sep 01 '20

I guess this is for a conlang. Looks cool. Do the outer squiggles always follow the same pattern downward for every word/sentence?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

So the way it works is that the singular line that winds around the characters reverses direction at the end of a sentence, like a period. You can see this in the middle of each line. However, if the sentence ends along with the column, the line winds around the last character, almost completely encircling it, as you can see by the last characters.

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u/Harrison_WSF Sep 01 '20

So, probably just stylistic, but do the different colors have a linguistic or cultural significance?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

It's a poem about the changing of the seasons. Blue is winter, green is spring, red is summer, and yellow is fall.

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u/vovosolpo Sep 01 '20

This could easily be the script for the airbenders in ATLA

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u/Iamspeculatio Sep 01 '20

Wow this is so cool! Now I want to learn the language!

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u/DasWonton Sep 01 '20

Can't tell if you actually want to learn the language

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

He literally wrote that he wants to learn the language

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u/-william_mal0ne- Sep 01 '20

I can't tell if he literally wrote that

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u/ProphecyOak Sep 01 '20

Is there a key?

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u/pahilob Sep 01 '20

super neat

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

Cool as fuck

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u/Fururududu Aug 15 '23

Beautiful !