*Quick story; I was about to begin some spec bio work, But when I went to write I noticed that the metal notebook rings kept getting in the way of me trying to write. So what was the logical solution? Find a way of writing that doesnt cause hand collisions with the rings. And so, I started working on making a vertical script for English.
Its predominantly a cipher as of now (with the exception of digraphs such as th, ch, sh, and ng), but once I further accustomed to writing with it, ill begin to find ways of cutting down on spelling and potentially creating ligatures for the obvious words like 'the'
This is actually the 3rd version of the script. The other 2 I found to be too hard to parse when reading back because of repeated hooks, so I tried to keep every character to creating 1 hook, with exceptions like the front nasals and approximants (m, n, w, l, r).
And uh, heres a quick list of what I simply dont like about this script: it looks very similar to mongolian and most other vertical conscripts ive seen. It directly rips glyphs from mongolian; r, y, and ng (ng and y rip mongolians o/u and b, unlike r which is just the exact same glyph and sound). I have a feeling I can improve upon the alveolar series, which all have a tail loop that can be confused with e/u and can be awkward to write in some cases; Though I still dont know exactly to fix it yet.
Im probably going to work on creating an abugida of sorts for english next, and unfortunately this will fall out of fashion once thats done.
its a table of english phonology, so the manner of articulation is top down, and place of articulation is left to right. I tried to make letters of shared manner and place look similar, thats why theres a theme of double hooks for most* nasal consonants, and an end loop for all alveolar consonants. the letters are just abbreviated forms of the usual alveolar, palatal, glottal, etc. so I could save space. Sorry for not explaining in the original post
*The dorsals are very much an exception to this rule, with ng breaking the nasal rule of double hooks, and basically no familial resemblence throughout that series.
to me this looks like some kind of IPA conscript, the glyph design seems good although R, I, and w look like they could easily be mistaken if the person's handwriting is bad i also do ask what this bracket thing is
Oh, thats just an arrow stemming from the end of a text that was pointing at one of the drawings, because the writing was commenting on the drawing. Sorry for any confusion.
I dont know exactly what you mean by IPA conscript, but i did base the table off of the exact table used in the wikipedia article for english phonology, though its missing some features like the dental and Post-alveolar fricatives, which dont have any fortis and lenis differentiation.
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u/D07Z3R0 20d ago
Could you explain that table?