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    This is a very cool project! I look forward to seeing it evolve!
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    Probably the most important part of making a script is making it fit the language it's designed for. So what's the language like?

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    Quote Originally Posted by yipe View Post
    Welcome to the world of conscripting (CONstructing SCRIPTs), which itself is a part of conlanging (CONstructing LANGuages)!

    I can't wait to see you new language! Don't forget that you don't have to make your alphabet exactly equal to abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz! Maybe you need a letter just for the TH sound. Maybe you want a letter for the th in then and a different one for the th in thin! Maybe one for the ch in chutzpah? Maybe you don't even make an alphabet! Maybe you make a syllabary! Make each letter stand for a full syllable! So a letter for a, a letter for ba, a letter for da. Or maybe your writing system only has full letters for consonants, and the vowels are represented with accent marks and diacritics!

    I could go on forever, but you've stumbled upon one of the funnest, geekiest, and most creative things you can do with a fountain pen, congratulations!
    English used to have two symbols for th, eth and thorn. Eth and thorn were both used in Anglo-Saxon but both th sounds (voiced and unvoiced) were represented by the letters th as Anglo-Saxon changed into Middle English.

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    I love to do this! I can't think of how many old notebooks of mine have "____ Alphabet" on the back pages of them. I think I did nearly memorize one of them.
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    Adhizen,

    The script reminds me of Manchurian or Vulcan (as per Star Trek); no one has yet constructed the Vulcan language, but Manchurian, along with several other written languages, were invented for the purpose of transcribing an existing, long-established spoken language; in that sense they are phonetic and can comply to very few simple rules; an example is the Hangul script developed in Korea for popularizing literacy, and it was a resounding success. But my immediate reaction when seeing your experimental writing is that it's close to Manchurian in structure than anything else I can think of. Good luck!

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