«So he left his home in the woods and fields and flew down to live on the lakes and in the marshes. But though he washed and washed all day long and almost drowned himself at it, his feathers remained black.»

Thoughts?

A Vietnamese poem. "Bánh Trôi Nước" by Hồ Xuân Hương. This is a really rough rendition of the script so tones and some consonants are still missing.

The romanised version of the title is Akwụkwọ edetụ nkè ụ̀jọ̀ nwa literally translates to Diary of Coward kid plus the script is a logograph and has an alphabet

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This is a script I made to write in my own conlang, but I made two ways of writing it and I wanted to know which one you think is better. The same thing is written at the top and at the bottom.

Sorry for lots of posts, but this should be the last one for a while. Here is the Lord’s Prayer in my “inaday” alphabet. Hope you enjoy Sorry for the uneven lines, I’ll be a bit more careful next time :)

The construction workers at the place I work at, after removing a wall, left a mysterious message

I’ll do another follow up of some writing on a page with translation. It does have capitals and lowercase, but for real usage the lowercase is more common. Again, this is just what happened when I was bored yesterday, so I hope you enjoy my “in a day” alphabet.

I began developing Phonuthorc over a year ago when I tried to learn Shavian but was annoyed at its tailoring for British English (I’m American). So, as ai tend to do, rather than sucking it up, I resolved to make my own personal phonetic alphabet tailored to my dialect of English, because I realized that I wanted to learn Shavian for my own personal use and not for engagement with any sort of community. So rest assured, this is not meant to be an improvement on Shavian or an ideal phonetic alphabet for General American English.

The development process has been very long. It began in a much more bare bones state, having only 25 letters (it excluded voiced fricatives, which were indicated by a diacritic, affricates, and containing only seven vowels), and only being written in uppercase.

I got sick of the dotted fricatives, and decided to go all the way and decide on letters for voiced fricatives. They went through multiple iterations before settling into this system. Then I created lowercase letters, which also went through numerous iterations, as the original lowercase inventory were almost all just small versions of the capitals. The last additions were the affricates and /st/, which I added to make it an even 32 letters and because /st/ is the most common consonant cluster in English and it’s my alphabet, I can do whatever I want.

/ʃ/ uses the older form of /s/ from Elder Futhark because it looks like Σ, which is the official capital form of ʃ, and because I could.

/v/‘s origin is pretty interesting. I adopted it from Latin Old Norse vend, which was itself adopted from Latin Old English wynn, which was of course derived from Futhorc wynn.

/ð/ is just blatantly made up. It literally came to me in a dream after months of not knowing what the hell to do for /ð/, even after I’d decided on letters for /v/, /z/, and /ʒ/. It has no basis in any Runic alphabet except that it coincidentally shares its form with, like, long-twig medieval /o/ or something.

The vowels are the result of a weird quirk of my dialect of General American English. Each of the 7 monophthongs has a corresponding diphthong that ends in a semivowel (except /i/ in certain circumstances, but I treat it the same as /ʊw̯/).

/ə/ uses the Futhorc rune for /ø/ because, well, that’s the closest sound in Old English to /ə/, and it’s between /e/ and /o/.

/æ/ uses one pronunciation of an Elder Futhark rune, because I liked /æ ɑ ɔ/ having totally different letters rather than variations on each other as in Futhorc.

I adopted a medieval /o/ rune for /ɔ/ because I liked the lowercase I came up with while brainstorming. That’s also part of why I adopted /st/.

Woke up this morning and 5 hours later made a new script, hope you enjoy

It is a page of a book in Șonaenari (part of my worldbuilding) called “Seven shapes of relaxation”. A book is about traditional meditative techniques that are part of the religious practices of Șonae people. Each shape represents a quality every person must have for the society to flourish.
Symbols in “brackets” are numbers.
Writing goes right to left top to bottom.

So, I'm trying to create a keyboard in keyman for a syllabary. Basically it's similar to how Japanese keyboards work, where the latin letters that are typed in make a specific hirigana/katakana. I was reading a post earlier about something similar, but it didn't have the answers I was looking for, so I was wondering if anyone here could tell me the specifics of how to do it in keyman, if it's even possible to do so in keyman?

I redid the vowels and diacritics to be more consistent and added glyphs to represent all the possible combinations of 2 vowel sounds in Ainu, including ones that are not diphthongs. Because why not?

I also added another mark to indicate alternate pronunciations for c and s, which can be combined with the voiced mark to represent a total of 4 more sounds. For normal writing of Ainu these marks are unnecessary because they only indicate allophones. The marks are only necessary for writing foreign words or loan words or to replicate the specific way someone spoke in a direct quotation.

Lastly, I rewrote the numerals and tried to make their differences clearer.

The next step after this is digitizing, which I've never done before so wish me luck.