What’s even tougher than designing a language?
Designing the script for it.
I spent a goodly amount of time brainstorming on my alphabet today. In the end, I came up with 21 glyphs that will be the characters of the script… Except that I think they don’t really match each other stylistically. So there’s still a lot of work ahead of me. Still, I wanted to post a short sample just so that I have something to show for the many hours spent.
Script - First Sample
It reads “Arnâron”, of course.
Does it make sense that the “A” and “O” kind of look very similar to what’s in the latin alphabet? Well – the triangle and circle are just too simple to exclude them. And I figured since I’ll include them, it does make sense to use them in this way instead of confusing people by making the o-glyph stand for, say, “e”.
That said, it is very much a work in progress, and I am sure I’ll change a lot of characters around.
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Tags: Alphabet, Arnaron, Conlanguage, Language, Linguistics, Script, World Building, World building month
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You are truly amazing. I'm impressed.
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Thanks… the script is still being worked on. It's actually eating way too much time because I never seem to be satisfied with the letters. I really need to spend energy on something else or I won't have a single posting in World Building Month showcase 3
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