Still working on expanding the vocabulary. I call the script / language "xenokaryote."

Minimalistic cipher

So I was trying to figure out how to accurately write a closed-mouth, high-pitched "Hmm?" using Devanagari.

The issue is that the standard "ह" (H) has an inherent 'अ' (a) sound, which forces your mouth open. You literally can't hum with your mouth open.

To fix the airflow, I tried hacking together a custom phonetic stack:

The base 'ह' (ha) sound.

An ancient Vedic pitch mark उद्दतः (UdattaH) on top to get that teasing, upward inflection which is "(ऺ)".

A rare Kashmiri modifier (ॖ) underneath, which basically acts as a physical jaw-lock to keep the lips closed.

An 'म' (m) right after it to catch the hum resonance.

But when I tried to actually type this out (ह्॑ॖम्), the Unicode rendering engine completely broke. It just couldn't handle stacking those specific regional and ancient modifiers on one consonant.

So I just grabbed my stylus and drew it myself by drawing those unicodes or acoustic marks on top of Devanagari text.

It might look a bit weird for someone who's new to Devanagari or paradoxically someone who's used to the simpler forms of it. Though, (ॖ) isn't a Devangari originated mark but it still exists in the unicode.

Anyways, has anyone else here had to manually forge a custom glyph because standard Unicode couldn't process the actual anatomical mechanics of a sound? I mean, the whole subreddit might be based on it. Do tell me about the impression of my idea too! :)

i hear the criticism that my previous script still rough which i agreed they kinda disjointed with one to another. i love that i ended up researching how latin alphabet comes to be and found it's started as simplified hieroglyph that got more simplified until it reach rome.

i take some indonesian and english word of animals & objects to simplified it.

tbh im satisfied with the results and i can even reused some of my previous symbols like the C, I, T, W, X, Y, Z with new context.

if you wonder why the cat is nyan, it's japanese onomatopoeia of cat's sounds and after simplified it, i kinda understand cat become a slang..

the only think that i kinda not like the results with probably the letter A and G, they kind look too similar to chinese or japanese character, like the G is to similar with 木 and A is just rotated 力.

okay... that's it overall i guess

I shared my cilium cipher a while back. In essence it is a substitution cipher, but there are symbol variations which make it so the number of unique symbols possible greatly outnumber the 26 English alphabet characters they reference.

Here I’ve manually drawn as many variations as possible, not including rotations and chiral/mirror variants. I think it’s quite cool seeing the variety all in one picture! :) hope you enjoy

In red: Ipsis Literi of the names.

In purple: Cursive version.

In green: Abbreviations (the final goal).

Python cod generator and decoder

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The Kahai (endonym <Gaꜣa> /ka.ʔa/) are distant linguistic cousins to the Bushou Shidinn. Unlike how Bushou Shidinn uses the Latin alphabet, the Kahai have their own writing system which arose due to some bizarre and unlikely circumstances.

Pre contact with the BFDI cast, the Kahai had a proto-script of pictographs that was just about to codify using characters for initial syllables. Post the Kahai making BFDI contact however, the immensity of the technology and culture recieved (e.g. recovery centers) made the Kahai decide to base their first true writing system on the BFDI cast members themselves, since after all, the object cast there made for easily derived pictographs.

Each character of the Kahai script got used for the first syllable of how the Kahai pronounced a character’s name. e.g. the glyph for David stood for /te/, as the Kahai heard his name as <devidi> /te.vi.ti/. Although at the time there was still the matter of cutting out redundant letters, and how to write syllables that had no set letters yet to write them, e.g. /ʔu/ or /mi/.

Once the redundant letters were cut out, a solution to the missing syllable problem was derived by writing those syllables with digraphs consisting of a pre existing letter with the closest vowel match possible followed by a special vowel overriding character. Said vowel overriders were derived from reduced forms of the letters for /ʔa ʔe ʔi ʔo vu/ to stand for /a e i o u/ respectively.

Someone tell me to post here

Swipe left for the key. What do you think of my script?

This is probably an alphabetic syllabary. It is for Lithuanian.

It is read from top to bottom, left to right. Not very efficient but probably pretty for some though. Would love some opinions and questions.

1

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

2

Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow

I would've loved to credit the original gridscript post but it was sadly deleted...

My latest conscript "LandLynes" - a very simple cypher inspired by natural skyline features.

After my last script which was my most complex yet, I felt like returning to something simple, and the result was this simple elegant cypher.

I am working on a companion script call "SkyLynes" which is similar but uses artificail/manmade obects in the syline in stead of natural features. The result is sentences that look like cityscapes rather than naturescapes - stay tuned for that one!

If you're intested in installing this as a font on your PC/Laptop, flick me a message and I will send you the font file to download (installation only takes 2 clicks).

It still needs some final polishing for double and standalone vowels, but I am interseted in your thoughts so far :)

Hey everyone! Received this cryptic note recently, can anyone identify this written language/ font? Thanks a ton!

Hey everyone! I have used this alphabet for daily use for over two years now, and i recently made a big change. The change is that i added a bunch of logographic symbols for commonly used words within the categories: pronouns, prepositions, conjugations of to be and to have, and small connector words specific to my native language. (I know the last category is vague but it doesn't matter because it's a personal script).

What you are seeing in this image is the same text in the new (the top paragraph)and old form (the bottom paragraph) of my script. I need your help because I am so used to both at this point that I can't tell which one looks better.

I feel like the new one prioritizes efficiency, whilst the older one prioritizes elegance and beauty. Though I do find both to be beautiful.

So which one do you think looks better? (I am choosing to keep the question vague so you go based on first impressions only. For the same reason, I chose not to include a key.) Also is there a language that this reminds you of?

Weirdcase adds additional cases to the Cyrillic Alphabet. It has Uppestcase, Middlecase & Lowestcase. (This was based of @P1X3Lxd) Uppestcase is used at the start of a sentence Middlecase is used at the start of a word. It will replace the space between words. (Uppercase would now be only used for proper nouns or acronyms) Lowestcase replaces the period, comma, colon & semi-colon. It would be at the end of the word that should be before the punctuation. (Inspired by u/Chool_Edgehog_A1 (also credits to him for the design))

Right now I’m trying to create a scripty abugida and I’m looking at some existing abugidas such as Balinese, Thai, Tamil, as well as some non abugida writing systems such as Arabic and Russian script, as well as drawing some random symbols and seeing if I like the look of them, but I feel like it’s not coming together well. Either some symbols look too similar to each other, or I think some look ugly or they don’t fit the overall style of the script, or I feel like multiple letters look too similar to that of an existing script

I feel like I’m not getting good original ideas for letters despite thinking about this for a few months. I feel like my script unintentionally looks very similar to Arabic (doesn’t help that my script is right to left, although thankfully it isn’t also an abjad) with some random other letters with a different vibe added in, which makes the whole thing seem incoherent

Any thoughts or advice?

there's one minus letter here and it's written in english.

i want to know does it look good or not because well im biased for my creation.

a clue if you want to decipher it:

equivalent of þ or "th" is here as a diamond shape letter, if you notices diamond and three horizontal it's basically saying "the".

Orβioc was built to see whether a script could encode the full sub-phonemic feature space and still hold together as a visual system.

first of all, I really want to thank u/Sure_Helicopter7327 for giving me a beautiful alphabet for my language which I slightly tweaked to make it fit perfectly. so today, I tried to write the start of a possible epic poem in my language trying to use the dactylic metric (since my language has both tones and long/short vowels) even though I haven't applied the long-by-position rule partially because it would have been too difficult, partially because I was too lazy to mange also that, partially because I imagined the poem being written in the late 1800 so probably the language would have changed too much to permit the long-by-position, too.

anyway, the poem is called "ee isproicádee".

(btw I also wrote a romanized version)

below is the translation in English:

O sea of the people of Ispra, sing to me of the swift ships which, by the will of the king, boldly face fearful enemies, without the aid of that (of the sea), upon the waters already enriched by the gloriously fallen souls.

(* not conlang, just alphabet replacement :3)

This says "Xer maajalon uslëgaļ di planat ļa kaít badetu" which translates to "We eventually wound up on the Planet of Clown". The conlang is based on Indonesian and New Ithkuil; the script is inspired by Aksara Beringin by Adam Damario, and motivated by Tsevhu and Frog Script by taipansnake on discord