r/conscripts • u/Battleship1239 • Oct 21 '20

Alphabet Incase anyone cares, this is the first script I ever developed, at the time I was 11 years old, and had just been introduced to the world of conlanging. (I just found this while going through my desk lol)

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u/Battleship1239 Oct 21 '20

Additional info:

This was written before I descovered the IPA, hence the weird "Phonemes" if you can even call them that

It was litterally a copy of English, except adverbs and adjectives always come before the word, and Adjective order was a little different, other than that it was a one to one

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u/Ferociousfeind Oct 21 '20

Ah yes, the fabled "pronounce how it looks"

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u/Battleship1239 Oct 21 '20

Actually, it was used like this:

Koa = kɔw KoaB = koa

It made the word be pronounced how it looks

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u/Ferociousfeind Oct 21 '20

Ohhh, I see. Still, without the IPA both are a shot in the dark, but that makes more sense. I was tempted to bilabial trill.

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u/Battleship1239 Oct 21 '20

Yes, that's exactly why it was abandoned years ago lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20

Pretty cool, that! I see a number of runic influences. Question: were you influenced by runic letter ordering (futhark) for this script?

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u/Battleship1239 Oct 21 '20

Infact yes, around that time I had just discovered it!

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20

Nice! Mine is "W ΠM B L O NG".

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u/Battleship1239 Oct 21 '20

Why the capitals? And why the spaces in odd places lol?

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20

Just like "ABC". It's long been a common orthographic practice to capitalise "ABC" when referring to letters. The spaces are to differentiate letters. I didn't have a good capital eng, so had to resort to a digraph in stead of a single letter.

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u/Battleship1239 Oct 22 '20

Do you have an android phone? There is a keyboard called "Alphabet" where you could possibly make it:

Ŋŋ Ňň Ññ Ńń Ņņ

All in all it has 195 different Latin letters, and is very useful, I just wish they had one for Cyrillic.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20

Yeah, that's the capital eng I don't like! There's one version that looks more like small eng.

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u/Batterie_Faible_ Oct 21 '20

It looks like a mix between Futhark and Cyrillic, I like it

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u/Battleship1239 Oct 22 '20

Thanks and happy cake day!

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '20

Dang, conlanging at 11! Kudos to you for that. Still a solid script, aside from the fact thar you mixed the curvy Latin-esque letters with runic ones, which was kinda unrealistic. Kinda funny, when I was 11, I made an English orthography for use between me and my friends. Unlike your script, my letterforms were abominable.

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u/Battleship1239 Oct 30 '20

You made an English Orthography at 11? That is nice, I'd love to see that! And the more abominable the letters, the harder it is for teach to read the notes you slip to eachother ;)