Warning: this post is stupidly technical. I'm working on a "for dummies" version of the reference grammar, but that's still a ways off.
A re-work of my fictional writing system for a Semitic-inspired conlang. The font can be found here. Here's what changed from last time:
- Re-bound all of the glyphs so that the sounds (mostly) match their counterparts in Hebrew. I did this with the Hebrew QWERTY (Mac/Model ב) layout in mind, but it should work just fine in standard Hebrew or QWERTY Model א. The only downside is that you need to switch to English to type the numbers A-F.
- Replaced the matres lectionis system for vowels with niqqud (the bottom row). The niqqud are placed over the consonant glyph that follows (rather than under the one that precedes as in Hebrew). When a word ends in a vowel, /h/ is used as a placeholder. From right to left, they are: a/א e/ע i/י o/ו
- Behind the scenes, there were a few changes to the language itself to accompany this update. I re-organized the vowels so that they are in a vertical system, and overhauled how participles, infinitives, and irrealis moods work because the old versions were grammatically clunky and their phonotactics sounded completely out of place with the rest of the language. I also added a little elision rule which (finally!) lets the language's name make grammatical sense.
The next thing to do is work out all of the kinks in the reference grammar, then I can post it & the WIP dictionary.
A re-work of my fictional writing system for a Semitic-inspired conlang. The font can be found here. Here's what changed from last time:
- Re-bound all of the glyphs so that the sounds (mostly) match their counterparts in Hebrew. I did this with the Hebrew QWERTY (Mac/Model ב) layout in mind, but it should work just fine in standard Hebrew or QWERTY Model א. The only downside is that you need to switch to English to type the numbers A-F.
- Replaced the matres lectionis system for vowels with niqqud (the bottom row). The niqqud are placed over the consonant glyph that follows (rather than under the one that precedes as in Hebrew). When a word ends in a vowel, /h/ is used as a placeholder. From right to left, they are: a/א e/ע i/י o/ו
- Behind the scenes, there were a few changes to the language itself to accompany this update. I re-organized the vowels so that they are in a vertical system, and overhauled how participles, infinitives, and irrealis moods work because the old versions were grammatically clunky and their phonotactics sounded completely out of place with the rest of the language. I also added a little elision rule which (finally!) lets the language's name make grammatical sense.
The next thing to do is work out all of the kinks in the reference grammar, then I can post it & the WIP dictionary.
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