[ Current character count: ~640 glyphs | 16 vowel diacritics | 5 special marks | 20+ grammatical markers ]

The core features and characteristics of Kelangkai script:

Skeletal Consonant Frames: Base consonant units built for rapid visual block-scanning and clean Gestalt processing.

Dual-Inherent Vowels (2^n Baseline): Unlike traditional abugidas where each base letter carries a single inherent vowel (like /a/), every unvoiced base frame in Aksara Kelangkai carries two inherent vowels (/a/ and /ə/) [the two most frequently occurring vowels in Indonesian].

Acoustic Locks: Tactical diacritics applied optionally to override the default baseline and lock down specific, precise vowel sounds (/i/, /u/, /é/, /o/).

Maximum Disambiguation Technique: A tiered clarity protocol for rare words, technical jargon, and foreign terms.

Morphographic Root Blocks: Compact, shield-like visual blocks (adapted for Latin/Greek roots like dia-, uni-, sosio-, forma-, sentra-, ekui-, elektro-, termo-, hidro-, ultra-, homo-, hetero-, poli-, mikro-, makro-, ekstra-, infra-, foto-, ko-, kon-, kom-, genera-, gene-, gen-, -isme, -itas, -ivitas, -isitas, -ibilitas, -isasi, -ifikasi, -ikasi, and many more) that convey entire concepts instantly without letter-by-letter spelling.

Efficiency by Default, Precision on Demand: A foundational design principle balancing rapid, fluid reading through context with absolute clarity when explicitly required.

Translation: This is better than regular English.

This is Bluegrassian, my reformed English. (Also called Bluegrasisan English or BPEC: Bluegrassian Phonetic English Conscript)

Bluegrassian has 44 regular letters, 10 borrowed letters, and 18 punctuation marks. It is written top to bottom, with columns going left to right (like Traditional Mongolian.)

This is a completely phonetic language, with words being written how they sound and vice versa.

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Hey. I'm not quite sure if this belongs here, but I think some of my script doodles have potential for meaning, but I'm currently unsure how to ascribe said meaning. Nevertheless, I hope you guys will just enjoy it for what it is, despite the lack of meaning atm :p

O que está escrito: “Tupã, ne putiri suí asú py'a-pusasu, ne nheenga suí, yvá resé puranga.”

Tradução: “Tupã, em tua força encontro coragem, e em tua voz, o poder do céu.”

So... someone asked for the glyph key earlier, so I thought it'd be fun to provide y'all with a breakdown of the Canassarene writing system, showing the individual letters, their initial, medial, and final forms, and how they map (roughly) to English sounds.

Canassarene is written vertically from top to bottom, with columns progressing from left to right. Its initial and final forms are used to mark paragraph boundaries, and in more modern times, has introduced line breaks to further separate paragraphs.

Historically, the script had little punctuation beyond these letterforms. The comma (an interpunct-like dot) and full stop (a teardrop-shaped mark) were introduced in the late 18th century.

The traditional numeral system was duodecimal (base 12), although decimal has largely replaced it in modern usage. Numbers were written as they were spoken; for example, 25 is duha-furo-so, literally "two-twelve-one" (2 × 12 + 1).

The way I worded the header is not the best, but what I mean is; Has someone ever tried coming up with a writing system inherently different from all writing systems used by actual populations of people? Something thats not an Abjad, Abugida, Alphabet, Alphasyllabary, Compositional syllabary (like hangul), etc???

When ive had this question before, ive tried to imagine different ways that one might go about creating a completely separate writing system, but i seriously have no idea.

If so, id be interested to see and understand it.

Hey everyone.

​Just had a thought: why isn't there an app specifically for neography?

​An app where we could draw custom glyphs, give them values, and use them with a local custom keyboard.

​Does something like this exist, or should someone build it?

The Romarabic Script is a left-to-right, unicase alphabet comprised of 9 Latin-origin letters and 19 Arabic-origin letters.

So... a little follow-up to my previous post!

I've been experimenting with how Canassarene might look in more formal, real-world applications, so I put together this poster featuring Articles 1 and 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (so it looks longer).

I've also included English translations this time, for anyone interested in what the text says, haha.

Čuspega is a logosyllabry that’s been in the works for a bit now, but here’s the first taste-tester! There will be more to come

Alfabetu Tetun Foun(the New Tetum Alphabet)

<Introduction> Tetum is one of East Timor's two official languages, alongside Portuguese. Portuguese is mainly used in official fields like law, administration and education while Tetum is used in everyday life of Timorese people. I should admit I'm not a Timorese person nor have I ever been there (yet), and this is no more than a personal project, but I've been studying history and culture for this fascinating and democratic nation for years.

All the other ASEAN nations, excluding Timor-Leste, have their own non-Latin writing systems for their national languages, either alive(Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Jawi) or obsolete(Baybayin, chữ Nôm), or for regional languges(Javanese, Balinese, Lontara etc.). So I thought inventing a unique Timorese writing system would be a meaningful project, balancing out this asymmetry.

<Core Principles> This is an alphabet system, and the letters follow the INL(Instituto Nacional de Linguística) 2004 official Tetum orthography. Vowels are symmetrical. Capital letters are rectangular while lowercase letters are triangular. Acute is used same as its Latin counterpart to mark irregular stress. Consonants have families according to their phonological similarity, and have similar shapes. Borrowed sounds, mainly from Portuguese, have caret(^) on native phoneme letters(mostly do palatalization). The c(/tʃ/) and y(/j/) are NOT in the standard orthography, and I deliberately added them because they seemed to have sufficient use in foreign words other than Portuguese, especially Indonesian and English.

<Updates from Last Version> I added letter case system that was not in the previous versions, and it is the biggest update here. It's to reflect the Tetum culture using lots of acronyms in news and various texts. The /m/, /n/ and /v/ have gone through design changes for legibility reasons, and /v/ is now a variant phoneme letter of /b/ reflecting Timorese sociolects. Letter c has been added as I mentioned earlier, mainly to write Indonesian words(cendol, cincau, etc.).

I would welcome every genuine feedback, especially from Tetum speakers. Obrigadu!

I am mentally struggling to think/function right now so I decided to make a challenge for myself.

Using one of the Swadesh lists, I will roll my D100 to determine the word and a D12 to determine the amount of stokes I will have to use for that concept.

Idk if anyone else would want to do this with me so I am making a post for you all to try

I've heard that certain languages like Thai are written the way they are, curvy, because they were written on palm leaves. The curvy letters were better for not ripping the leaf. And Cuneiform was written with a calamus to dig wedges and scrape lines on clay tablets. I've been thinking about how my conlang should be written based off the environment of the people who speak and write the language. So I thought it would be interesting to hear if anyone has made their script with this in mind, and if so, please share!

Thai script: อักษรไทย

Cuneiform: 𒅆𒐼𒀆𒀖

I think my illustration not very good as well 😅but I try make it in application if it use in manga .just make activity that with my conscript only .😁 what do you think with my illustrations with my conscript .

My name in my reconstruction of English!! (Called BPEC/Bluegrassian/Bluegrassian English :3)

I can't say how common this is here. As I've been on here more frequently myself (I'm in hospital recovering so I've got more free time), I've spotted at least 4 instances of it in just the last week. Reported some of them. Probably missed others.

I like seeing all the creative work that's come through this sub, and it's older cousins r/conscripts, and found myself going back in time, eventually looking at all the top posts in each sub.

This is probably why/how I've been able to notice the reposts, bots, karma farmers, whatever. If they're legitimate posts by the original creator but a new account, that'll be straightened out. (Though, that is technically a form of self-plagerism: presenting old work as if its new).

It makes me less likely to want to interact with the sub and adds a layer of unwanted suspicion.

Have those who are relatively active here noticed it as well? A recent uptick? Or just usual noise?

A sample text written in Kelangkai.