Tharir – the fictional language I've been working on for the last few months. My main inspirations were Semitic languages, like Hebrew and Arabic. As you can see, the script follows almost the same rules as in these languages:

• It's written from right to left

• The letters in the alphabet are consonants. There are 20 consonants and 1 sound carrier

• The diacritics are written on top of the consonants

The first sentence:

"Lau diranotira vudraalato edoynawilau"

"We will bring peace to the people"

The second sentence:

"Vathnaka hareg bergathato koyros"

"My friend goes to a town"

Let me know if you liked the language or if you have any suggestions :)

Have been working on this thing for a language my partner and I was encouraged to show off my work.

Şai joniravė şeu cœrisö ie sefe pleja l'arda omenose, navirïna.
[ʃaj ʒonɪɾavə ʃew kʊɾɪzow i sef pleʒa laɾda omneoz, navɪɾɪjna]
1SG.NOM.AFF give\FUT.AFF-2.DAT 1SG.POSS heart and if able\COND ART.DEF-world, paramour.
≈ "I'll give you my heart and (if I could) the world, my love."

Radicals are not allowed to shrink to less than a quarter of their size, to avoid Chinese's 𰻝 situation. Instead, characters stretch horizontally once additional radicals can no longer easily fit into the square. Sometimes this takes the form of two separate full characters being glued together, as you can see occurs twice in this image.

All basic verb inflections are written out alphabetically beneath verbs. Some noun morphology gets this treatment as well, as can be seen here with the character omnė having ose written below to indicate the word omneose.

There are so far 27 basic radicals (17 basic words and 10 numbers). From these, I have 92 characters so far (or 100 characters including the 8 that are composed of two glued-together characters).

As for the alphabet, it's mostly 1:1 correspondence with the romanization, with the exception that the romanization uses ⟨qu⟩ for /kw/ and the alphabet just uses its equivalent of ⟨ku⟩. Romanization also use ⟨x⟩ to show where certain kinds of elision have occurred, and the alphabet doesn't bother with that (for now, anyway).

If there's interest in seeing more of this I'll throw together another post.

​The letter "Indo-" was based on the shape of a river, as "Indo" refers to the Indus Valley Civilization, home to the Indus River.

​Meanwhile, the letter "-nesia" was based on the map of Indonesia—an archipelagic nation—along with its neighboring countries.

This is the script fo my conlang naelo with standard writing at cursive

I really just wanted it to be very curly but I feel likeits almost like elvish

No idea on what to do with numerals but I got a rough idea lol.

I hope this is okay.

trynna make a font for my script with 150 letters and 1000s of conjunctions.. im working on a block of conjunctions that uses this form to indicate plural, possessive and past tense words.. its an abugida but the shape on the inside left is a logograph that combines with the syllable block.. and using chat gpt to edit my font conjuntions just isnt working, but i have all the actual letters complete.. but some of the conjunctions will make their own shape.. i just speng the last TWO DAYS, giving chat gpt the exact pixel cound dimensions of every glyph in 200 conjunctions and they only got 12 of them right! this was one of the correct ones but i need a more efficient way to do this, i havent even started with my vowel marks and most vowel marks have 3 forms depending on the letter they go on?? does anybody know a more efficient way to combine ideograms or abugida virama letters in a font?

"Naashduye ishuud

Harah naamish! Yanitsa daah tut su. Cheiv haam tut sav? Abshaad tuteh bajar him!

Nirakshai a'saan.

Ivshe fayas dah an issish. Ipsas shim mahs an tidan. Ese iniryaah ivsha.

Ameh kiryam at bunru gii besas dah an innij. Heses abgadas amah an daah hum. Ege umushsaabyaah.

Daah raeh byassaas dah an isaah.

Taniv haam hale savas? Aryam sahar dah.

Haam migyam melir. :)"

The Naashdu script

Hello! My name is Yanitsa. What is your name? You have a beautiful name!

It's a pleasure to meet you.

I saw a dog yesterday. It was sleeping under a tree. It was a very cute dog.

I went to the market to buy bread today. The bread was too hot in my hands. It was also delicious.

I will meet a friend tomorrow.

How was your day? I want to know.

I'm waiting for your reply. :)

Naashdu's writing system is a consonant-based script with dependent vowel diacritics, somewhat similar to a fully vocalized abjad. Unlike an abugida, consonants have no inherent vowel: a consonant written without a vowel mark is pronounced on its own. Vowels are indicated by diacritics attached to consonant letters, with additional markings distinguishing long vowels from short ones.

I tried to incorporate the aesthetic of a desert civilization to both the script and the language, and I hope I have done a good enough job, since this is my first time trying something like this and I didn't want to lean into Arabic or any other real world languages.

Let me know what you think. :)

given my script is naturally horizontal, the best block order is just stacking it, it can't do much like the mayan script or hangul.

i did try to wrote it in hangul block order but it doesn't look good to be honest because hangul had both vertical & horizontal letters.

i do like that it work as vertical script and it's still can work if you write it horizontal like in book.

I am need help assigning sounds to most of the letters for my pegasus system. The letters are on the right while the sounds I want to pick are on the left. Yes this is stil a code for english but can allow for more varieties in accents.

Idk why my brain just shut down so hard after I wrote this. It sucks.

The system is written vertically btw.

I may shorten it to 52 but bleh. Brain is just on the fritz. I may take out any /_j/ combos since /j/ is gonna be its own thing but beyond that. Brain bot braining.

Sorry for the bother. If yall can just help jump start me with a fre, I'd appreciate it.

A writing system inspired by Korean language

I wanted to make a indian styled language and wanted the script to be like Arabic and Devanagari styled and kinda wanted to mix up them how should I go about doing this as Devanagari is already primarily cursive just like Arabic which is why idk how to implement a bit of both as they clash a little bit one is free easy to draw just let your pen move around one is very bounded to a horizontal line, it's kind of hard to mix them any suggestions or ways I could make this work?

Don’t mind me just more experimenting with gridded paper.
I suck at the calligraphic style 😭

Kelangkai script is a hypercompact hybrid abugida built on Indonesian phonotactics. It features a dual inherent vowel baseline (/a/, /ə/) to stop diacritic bloat and Acoustic Locks to seal codas, compressing words into dense modular units while preserving root Gestalt.

Designed with spoken Tamil in mind, but the text here is literary Tamil, an iconic song heard everywhere across Tamil Nadu

I'll admit that I don't actually know Japanese, but I'm a linguistics enthusiast and I know how kana works. I've seen Japanese writing and it seems rather... inefficient. I don't mean to talk down to people from Japan or actual speakers, I just thought I'd use my knowledge to take a shot at optimizing stuff.

This shorthand is about 2-3 times less strokes than normal Japanese.

I've had an English shorthand for a while where every sound can be represented with only one stroke, and it's probably not as good as Gregg or other shorthands but it's mine and it's taught me a lot. In the paper, you can actually see some text written in my English shorthand ("Japanese Simplification" at the top, one of my own letters to represent the n as a vowel kana, the word "vowel" in my own script, and "Plastic Love" at the top of the righthand page.)

I couldn't actually find any real pre-existing shorthands for Japanese, and I figured I could make 46 unique symbols with only one stroke each, so I did (I already used 38 of them in my own script). The kana chart is on the left page, and the system is basically an alternate kana but with three special rules.

1. The little quotation mark diacritic is replaced with a single apostrophe-like diacritic instead.
2. Instead of denoting a P sound with a circle above a vowel-equivalent h-kana, you use the apostrophe-like diacritic to the vowel-equivalent base vowel kana instead.
3. A hard angle that breaks up an otherwise continuous line separates the line into two different characters, similar to my English shorthand.

The idea is that you'd write everything with this one kana and never use katakana or kanji, the writing sample is all the Japanese lyrics from the song "Plastic Love" by Mariya Takeuchi.

(Sorry for bad drawing, i suck at calligraphy)

This is my first attempt at making a logography, so please give feedback.

So... this time around, I decided to try my hand at creating some calligraphy using the Canassarene script.

The text is an in-world proverb:
Arainu di lur, luran di ollmën.
"What slips past the eye may linger long in memory", the idea being that something can seem insignificant or go unnoticed at first, but still leave a lasting impression.

The six-petaled seyhindäl flower in the artwork is an example of this. As the national flower of Canassar, it embodies this Canassarene ethos by having flowers that are small and unremarkable looking, but has a gentle but lasting fragrance, and as such, is a popular subject in visual arts, just like this one.

This piece was done in pencil and ink, then digitized and colorized using Rebelle.

[ font link ]

The Lëax script, named after its first four letters, is the writing system for the Idlish language, a future Great Lakes English descended conlang that is spoken by time travelers and is a sister language to the more phonaesthetically rough Ẽdlíc, and the Lëax script shares US midwestern state origins with the Ẽdlíc script.

The Ẽdlíc went with using the Latin alphabet as a template for fleshing out their script, under the notion of making their script more recognizable for an English orthography accustomed audience.

The Idlish however instead went with the featural modules of the RøTa script to finish creating their alphabet, since they viewed what their Ẽdlíc cousins were doing as adopting an alphabet that looked too much like the Latin alphabet and thus like English misspellings.

I’m continuing to develop YOalphabet, a geometric writing system with 16 core glyphs.

The first image shows some of the visual styles I’m exploring for the same 16 glyphs. The underlying forms stay the same, but the rendering can become more rounded, handwritten, calligraphic, or digital.

The second image shows the glyphs in numerical order from 0 to 15. Each glyph is built inside a square bounding box, using outer contour lines and internal diagonals to create a balanced set of forms.

I’m especially interested in feedback on:

- Which visual style feels most readable at small sizes?

- Are the 16 glyphs distinct enough from one another?

- Does the 4×4 matrix layout make the system easier or harder to learn?

- Are there any pairs of glyphs that feel too similar?

I’m also developing YOconlang, a constructed language that can be written with YOalphabet, but here I’m mainly focusing on the script and its visual forms.