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Socialese syllabic alphabet

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Another writing system for my conlang Socialese, this one an abugida based somewhat on the Javanese and Burmese scripts as well as some magic or occult alphabets I've seen. As with the Greek-based alphabet it has a rather small inventory of letters since Socialese has only a dozen phonemes, but I might extend it for later additions so I can write other stuff.

As with most abugidas each letter has an inherent vowel which is modified with diacritics. Modified letters are used to indicate consonants without a following vowel, as at the end of a syllable (these appear in the "Codas" section). Using various additional diacritics one can indicate diphthongs, length, and tone. The way the vowel diacritics attach varies with each consonant letter somewhat, with some just attaching to the side and others connecting with it in one continuous stroke.

The bit of text at the bottom says "patíkujas", a possible name for the script derived from the first three consonants followed by a grammatical ending. Hopefully I'll get around to creating some real samples as to illustrate how it looks in use at some point.

Now with an updated and hopefully better looking image, larger file size though.
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HP Scanjet djf4100
Date Taken
Jan 10, 2009, 9:45:31 PM
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Yinai-185's avatar
I am liking the looks of this language, it looks a lot like Thai (My second tong)