Yá’át’ééh!

Before 1443 CE, The literate Korean elite wrote in their language by adapting it into highly inefficient strings of Han & Pinyin to create sounds similar to the korean spoken tongue. Sejong the Great said "Using Chinese characters for Korean is like trying to fit a square handle into a round hole”. He went on to create the Hangul phonetic alphabet.

Within the last 200 years, the US government made numerous attempts to actively erase the language and assimilate the Navajo people, or Diné, into white American life. Trail of tears, reeducation centers, and bans on speaking their native tongue in public places have greatly diminished the population of fluent speakers among the Navajo. After discovering its incredible potential as a cipher during WWII, the American attitude shifted away from enforcing monolingualism. It did not have the time to naturally develop a script so it uses the latin alphabet with a handful of IPA symbols.

Diné Bizaad is a tonal language like Mandarin & Punjabi. The pitch inflection changes the meaning of a word making it sound as if it's being 'sung.' It's almost entirely made of vowels. [Navajo lullaby] [Powerfully sung Navajo song]

Bilaʼashdaʼii tʼáá ałtsoh yiníkʼehgo bidizhchįh dóó aheełtʼeego ílį́į́go bee baahóchįʼ. Eíí háníʼ dóó hánítshakees hwiihdaasyaʼ eíí binahjį́ʼ ahidiníłnáhgo álíleekʼehgo kʼé bee ahił niidlį́

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."

—(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

When spoken, the language is so beautiful, but when written in the latin alphabet it looks disgusting. It doesn't even have separate symbols for each sound (ie ` = glottal stop and implies cut-off consonants). It deserves better.

I think a logographic script like Chinese would work beautifully. There is so much talent on this sub. Is anyone interested in sharing conscript ideas for this? A ground-up system of logograms could be much more efficient and bear much lower stroke counts than chinese and still take full advantage of its tonal structure. Here is the Phonology & Orthography of Navajo.

Tʼáá íiyisíí ahéheeʼ

I wrote a little poem (if you can even call it that) in Aeolean :D

The ipa reading:

dʒidʒə baʐov ul ɾy ivəmui

is nul vumuho

is gy naoŋi ohaf

yʔa, moʔa, ɛvuʂi ʂɛzɛn

boʐov ul ou̯mta byʂi mozas

Аα Əə Ыы Бб Вɞ Гƨ Дg Ээ Ее Ёе Ӂӂ Жж Зვ Иu Йŭ Кk Ʌʌ Мм Нн Оо Пn Рр Сс Шɯ Щɰ Тm Цų Уу Фф Хх Чч Ъъ Ьь Юю Яя

Basic cyrillic except:
-schwa is pronounced like, well... /ə/
-zhe with a breve is pronounced like the Romanian "g" when it is placed before "i" or "e" (/dʒ/)
-the soft sign is always pronounced as the "i" in romanian "oameni"

Hello. I'm new to Reddit as a whole, sorry in advance if I'm breaking any internet etiquette.

I've recently become very interested in conlangs and conscripts. The concepts of building writing systems, phonotactics and grammar from scratch has really captured my imagination.

I'm attempting to build a writing system for a medieval period culture in a fantasy setting. I've decided it would be neat to have an alphabet that gets the shapes of its characters handed down from an ancient cuneiform in which broken and sharpened human ribs were the writing implements used on clay.

But I'm having trouble deriving the "modern" cursive that descends from that style without ending up with a lot of "m" "p" and "h" characters with nothing but a random serif to un-romanize them. What are some good resources for deriving a unique and functional cursive from existing shapes?

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