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Friday, May 9th, 2008
7:36 am [cnoocy]	New Flash-based Font Construction Tool This seems very cool... FontStruct is a tool that allows you to use a Flash-based editor to create fonts, which you can then download as TrueType fonts and use normally. I took a look at the gallery and people have done amazing things with it. The constructing tool is grid-based, but the resulting fonts have a surprising range. I was particularly impressed that it allows access to a lot of different Unicode blocks. (Though none of the really huge ones, and none of the private use areas. Yet.) This seems like it's a potentially awesome tool for conscripters. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
2:11 pm [fayanora]	Cross-posted to conlangs Hi, my name is Fayanora. Well, that's not my given name, but it's my adopted name. I started making cultures and languages for a world called Traipah a good many years ago, and I adopted the Yahgahnii culture and spiritual path from that world as my own, and the trade language called Trai'pahg'nan'nog as my spiritual language. Not being fluent in the special characters of other languages, the pronunciation of my constructed languages are largely English-based, and where they differ (where I've stolen sounds from other languages or made up new ones), I have my own system in place for how to deal with those. The pronunciation key can be found on the page I have on my site about the language. There are at least 300 words in that language so far. I lost count a long time ago. Oh, and the apostrophes generally only serve as syllable seperators, having no sound or meaning other than that. Trai'pahg'nan'nog, aka TPNN, and one of my other main Traipahni language projects, called Dven'coilii [ven-coy-lee], have their own alphabets. They're interchangeable, too, since Dven'coilii is the main language of another species, and the two species have long been very close. I don't use the first one very often anymore, because the second one is more detailed and accurate. Both alphabets are phoenetic alphabets, so they go by sound obviously. Thus, there are far more than 26 characters. The Dven'Bahnis [ven-bon-niss] alphabet has separate characters for capital letters, too. Ahndahn's Alphabet. (largely out of use) Dven'Bahnis Alphabet. The basic structure is set up like this: there are two kinds of words, base words and non-base words. For example, "gweble", meaning water, is a base word. As is "kokyl", meaning "deep." Therefore, anything with the word-part "gweb" in it refers to water in some way. Hence the word for ocean is gweb'kokyl, literally "deep water." Another example in the name Dven'Bahnis. Dven means tongue, and Bahnis is "The People", so Deven'Bahnis means "The tongue of the people." (Bahnis cannot be used to mean people in the sense of more than one person, though. The plural for "bahn", meaning person, is da-bahn.) The neat thing about this base/non-base thing is that if you ever became fluent in the language but a particular word eluded you, you could make up one if it was logical enough, and as long as it didn't already mean something different. So, like English, they would end up having lots of words for the same thing, but it would make more sense as to why... built-in etymology, essentially. I use these languages and alphabets in not only my scifi writings, but also in my spiritual life. My Deities are adopted from that world. In fact, the icon is a picture of Nahtahdjaiz, Child Goddess of Children. Also gives an indication what the Ah'Koi Bahnis (one of the planet's four native sentient species) looks like, eyes and all. (For the curious: they have pupils in their irises, but instead of one big one in each, they have thousands of microscopic pupils in each iris. And no lines in their iris.) Though the one language of that planet I *really* want to expand is Yahgahnii, the religious language of the Yahgahn people, because it is so fluid and beautiful. I don't have enough of either it or Dven'coilii to post them online. But one example of Yahgahnii is "Ohnya tohnya nii'ehn." Means "We are all One." I'm still working on expanding all three of these language, even TPNN has a bunch of missing words. There's hardly anything been done on Dven'coilii or Yahgahnii, as TPNN has been my obsession. Neat thing about TPNN is, even on Traipah it's a constructed language; it was designed to be a trade language from the very beginning. And it is universally accepted on the planet, and works fairly well. The only flaw is that one species, the Shao'kennah, have a very hard time learning how to speak it because of the shape of their snouts (they bear a vague resemblance to velociraptors, only without the hooked claw, and they have shorter snouts). But they are an elusive race anyway, so not many people have any dealings with them. I love languages and codes, but I don't know much of any one language. I know a little bit of lots of languages, and hope to learn Hungarian and German from my girlfriend. She's already taught me some important Hungarian words, and I know how to curse in that language. :-) Which curses are pretty much all I have in Dven'coilii so far. :-) EDIT: One last interesting thing about these conlangs of mine= three of the four species on Traipah are perfect hermaphrodites, so they have only one set of pronouns for each language. In TPNN, that set is djai and djair. Djai is pronounced kind of weird... it's kinda like "jay," but the Dj makes a sound that sounds like a cross between a J and an SH. Hard to describe. The SH part is very subtle, though. There's also a very subtle D in that DJ as well. Anyway, "djai" is their version of "she/he" and can also replace certain instances of "him/her" in English, because English is a bizarre mutant and sometimes uses his or her in place of he or she. "Djair" is, of course, the posessive form. Djai and djair are genderless, so the word for "it," which is "ziz", is only used for inanimate objects. Djai and djair is even used for trees and other plants, even in food form. Basically, if it was ever alive, it is djai or djair. Rocks and metals and so on are ziz. Though there is a high prevalence of animism in Traipahni culture, so many people only use ziz for concepts, djai and djair for everything else. EDIT 2: I almost forgot, the Dven'Bahnis conalph is written backwards (what would be the back of the book in English is the front in Dven'Bahnis), bottom-to-top, and right to left. Preferably inside columns. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
5:06 pm [trevor_trevor]	Introduction Hey everyone, I'm really excited that this community exists, even if it's not very active. I create writing systems all the time... it's pretty much what I do anytime I doodle and I tend to doodle a lot... So yeah I"ll post some of my writing systems up here sometime. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
1:46 am [wapogipo88]	Tanga Iri Script Another script of mine! I hope you like it. Sorry if you can't really see it. I don't know how to make them larger on here. :( Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Como La Flor (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
7:53 pm [wapogipo88]	Käläli Script Font Ok so I've got some really good news for you all! I got a font made for my Käläli script! YAY! One of my conlanging buddies made it for me and I'm so happy because I've always wanted a font for one of my colangs and now I have one ( actually 2 since I have a font for the script I made for Niora ). I'm also doing this Käläli word of the day project thing to increase the vocab for it. I'll be leaving for camp tomorrow so I'll miss posting here. I've been very busy getting my stuff ready for camp so I just thought I'd drop in and post my last post before leaving. I'll miss you guys! You're all so talented and I love your scripts to death. :) So here's some samples in the Käläli font for you to enjoy: There you go! Enjoy and tell me what you think! Also if you don't know what a boingy is look at my avatar. n_n Current Mood: artistic Current Music: BoA No.1 (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
5:31 am [wapogipo88]	The Käläli Script Alright here is the script that I made for my current language called Käläli. Sorry if the image is small. Maybe if you click on it it'll lead to a link with a larger version? Hope so. If not tell me and I'll post it on my conlanging blog and give you the link. If you can see it that's great and I would love feedback from you. The script wasn't based on anything it just came to me one day and I played around with some doodles and wala! The Käläli script is born! It also has a Latin alphabet too for transcriptions but I'll get to that later..... Current Mood: blah Current Music: Dreamimg of you (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
9:55 pm [akatsa]	Hello My name is Carlos. I've been lurking in the background for a few weeks now and decide to post something. I created a conlang, called Mesogeoika, which began at the end of 1999. I had a two year break from it to focus on another project, which took forever to finish so I abandoned it. Currently I'm purifying the conlang of German and English words at the moment, leaving Greek, latin and Romance vocabulary. My writing system is based on the Greek, English and Russian alphabets. The idea is if the Greek letter is taken or if it means sacrificing to Latin letters, then I will use letters from the English alphabet, for example in using Greek Νν, if will not be able to use Latin Nn and Vv. Russian letters are used for phones that are not appropriately represented by the former two alphabets. The order follows that of the Greek alphabet. I also use diacritics to represent accent of word and sentence, length of vowel. This writing system is adequate for my conlang, however it is described as the languages of synonyms. Having said that, I have often been indecisive as to which synonym to use. Recently I had a closer look at the Japanese writing system and how they use their various scripts. This got me thinking and decided to use the Chinese characters for the stem of the words when I'm indecisive. These characters could also be used to save space. What are your views on this. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 29th, 2007
10:04 pm [wapogipo88]	One of my many scripts. The text is in Niora a conlang made by a friend of mine. I made the script for it and it was based on another one of my scripts used to write Āndālese, a language spoken in my conworld. I hope you like it. This is a sample of the font that another one of my friends made for the script. I'll post the Āndālese script some time tomorrow. Let me know what you think! I hope you like it. Current Mood: apathetic Current Music: None at the moment (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
10:56 pm [relsqui]	It's about time that I shared a few of the many ciphers I've developed. I've been thinking a little bit recently about the way writing systems evolve over time. Mine don't tend to see enough usage to develop much, but there is definitely a noticeable genealogy apparent in the following samples: ( And now here's way too much detail about them. ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
8:09 pm [wapogipo88]	Hi! Hi! I finally decided to post here after lurking around for some time. I was trying to decide the right time to post believe it or not! Any way I'm very happy to be posting here finally and I wanted to let you know that I have over 100 writing systems! I know it's alot. I've been making since I was 11 and I've never stopped since. I've got lots of  langs all in different stages of development. Right now I'm having problems uploading pics of my some of my conscripts can any one tell me why? Ah well I'll try again some time later. Sorry for the inconvenience. :( Current Mood: anxious (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
6:56 pm [varpho]	abural 1 [.hu] this is my first attempt to adapt the Old Permic alphabet [so called Abur script - developed by St. Стефан Храп to write the Komi language - a Fenno-Ugric language, most closely related to Udmurt] to write all Uralic languages. how to write Hungarian using [sometimes slightly modified] Abur characters: most of the characters are taken from the original Abur alphabet as seen on {ЯНР website - set encoding to UNICODE} or {Omniglot}: ( original images of Abur ) long vowels are based on the letter for corresponding short vowel, but with one stroke elongated, voiced-unvoiced counterpart are modified by elongating the stroke or rotating the letter. other differences [like palatalization] are shown by rotating the letter. modifications: [Hungarian letter names in quotation marks, Abur names in Cyryllic] "a" is ан rotated [because "a" stands for a vowel different from the one ан stands for] "á" is ан with elongated middle stroke [because "á" stands for a long vowel] "c" is ʒ'ита elongated [because "c" is unvoiced counterpart for ʒ'ита] - or just цю letter {Omniglot} "é" is э rotated and with elongated vertical stroke. "j" and "ly" are similar on purpose, because of the identical pronunciation. "ö" and "ő" are based on вой - one of the letters for o. "ü" and "ű" are based on ы. and, of course, the name "ABURAL" comes from the name for the script itself [which comes from the names of first two letters - an & bur] and from the name of the Uralic language family. (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
12:21 pm [brucevbracken]	New Conalph I've created an alphabet for another conlang that I may work on after I've got the Üqoi grammar straightened out. It's called Ujo. My new conalph is behind the cut. Current Mood: creative (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 7th, 2006
3:03 am [boroparkpyro]	Heyall ConÆlphs Heyall, I joined the Conlangs group not that long ago, and was a long-time member of the Conlang listserv until i got a job and had no more time. Hopefully i'll have more time this year, so i'm getting into this LJ thing. I have made a number of constructed writing systems, including a few alphabets and even an early morphemographic system for my main conlang Rokbeigalmki. I also ganked pieces of Hangul in order to make an alphabet for my utilitarian LARP conlang, Gabwe. I also adapted Tengwar for Masoretic Hebrew, and a system for English in Arabic script. My name is Steg, nice to meet y'all. Current Mood: friendly (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
10:15 am [bodhran_man]	I've finally succeeded in making a conalph that I can look at for more than five seconds.  It's actually three or four character sets derived from a "primordial" rune-type script.  There is a cursive, block, and (for lack of the correct term) a rounded script that are evolved from this.  I would love to be able to convert these into a font that I could type in (easier than using a paint program every time I want to create text), but I am having trouble coming up with a simple font creation program.  Any advice? (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 9th, 2006
10:51 pm [brucevbracken]	Translate by clicking (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 6th, 2006
2:21 pm [izlude_tingel]	Conalph fonts Hullo. I'm working on a conlang (at the moment titled Bosin) which is still in a pretty preliminary stage. However, one thing that I've gotten pretty far in is a writing system. I've pretty much worked everything out on paper, and I'm interested in making a font so I can document it with the rest of my conlang stuff on the computer. I was wondering if any one out there has made a conalph (it's an abjad in my case, but whatever) and then made a font from it. My mom is a calligrapher-cum-graphic designer, so the next time I visit her I'll have access to Scanfont and Fontographer, but I was wondering if any of you have used shareware or freeware font creation programs, and what your experiences were. I'm not really interested in making something extremely professional or gorgeous or something, I'd just like a way to be able to type in my conalph. (cross-posted to conalphs and conlangs) (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
5:39 pm [molten_sugar]	I'm having a lot of trouble making a conalph. I really don't know what to do. I've tried a lot of stuff, but everything I come up with looks stupid and like it wouldn't actually exist. How do I start? I've tried a lot, from a synthesizer to just putting random symbols down. Some that I really like (Real scripts and neographies): Atemayar, Irxti, Ihathvé Sabethired, Trantanese, Georgian (Nuskha-khucuri), Korean, Javanese, Tibetan, Japanese Katakana, and Chinese Wow those are quite different :P I really don't know how to do this! How do you guys start? (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 6th, 2005
4:33 pm [thewhiteowl]	Programs What programs do you all use to create fonts of your conalphs? I'm looking for a program, specially if it's freeware, and I was wondering which ones were good. Current Mood: curious (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
11:52 am [faminir]	Hi Hi all, I saw a link to this place from the Conlang's group and just wanted to make my introduction. My conlang Alvaren is currently being worked on in another journal of mine faminir_muse I have the grammer set as well as a writing system, a sample of which can be seen currently in my icon. The conalph is based on some arabic as well as Tengwar. The Arabic is more noticable in other letters ill try to post more of it later. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 6th, 2005
7:16 pm [thewhiteowl]	Alphabet knocked out with Glyphmaker I have just discovered Glyphmaker, so I was able to make an alphabet for what is now called Aldea. I've posted it over in my journal. What do you all think? Now does anyone know of any (free) software I could use to turn it into a font? x-posted to conalphs and conlangs Current Mood: artistic (8 Comments |Comment on this)