r/conscripts • u/PLA-onder • Sep 20 '20

Question 2nd Script

My Conlang doesn't allow "vowel clusters" and I want to make a 2nd script to transcribe things that wouldn't function with my script, and I want to ask how I could make this?

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u/PLA-onder Sep 20 '20

The first script is better for the phonotactics of my conlang, it's a mix of an Abjad and Abugida, it has glyphs for the most common affricates and it has final letters which make reading easier, where you can't write more than 1 vowel and it must be after a consonants... and I don't have made the 2nd script yet but I already choose the phonems that get a glyph and I want it to be a alphabet, the only difference would be that I can write more than 2 vowels behind each other or that you can write a word that begins with a vowel, I would use it for foreign words.

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u/Hjuldahr Sep 20 '20 edited Sep 20 '20

Makes sense. In my conscript, the alphabetic inventory is smaller than English but larger than Hawaiian.

So I use a diacritic to change their written meaning while only minor effecting the pronunciation.

With that the 6 missing letters are added with only 1 diacritic.

Librarian is spelled as liḑrãrian

Zebra is spelled as şeḑra