Do you enjoy creating your own alphabets, with their own kind of rules, for your settings?like tolkien did
>>47699607
I used to, until I realized that all I was really doing was making substitution cyphers out of random symbols and got bored.
>>47699626
The point is going beyond the "leter A = leter 1". The fun stuff is making a new system to write the sounds of the language, and also new ways to arange those simbols.
For example cramp "c", "k" and "q" in one simbol. Or invent a different set of vowels. Or make the vowels little marks around the other letters.
>>47699766
My problem is that I do not know enough about languages to do that.
>>47699607
The ones I've made are almost universally abugidas. I just find them the simplest but also easiest enough to understand for my feeble monolingual brain. I'm also infatuated with the look of stuff like Devenagari, Bengali, and Tibetan.
>>47699981
none of the things he just listed take knowledge of languages
>>47699981
I have just the resource for you - the Language Construction Kit.
http://www.zompist.com/kit.html
>>47699984
Abugidas are the most synthetic you can get with english or spanish (in my case), because those languages have a shit-ton of different syllables. Maybe you can take some common syllables and invent new shorter ways to write them, but trying a sillabarium is impractical.
>>47699607
Less an alphabet, and more something like hobo signs for adventurers. But yeah, that kind of shit is fun.
>>47700509
Am I missing something here? Abugida's seem very similar to alphabets. They're not syllabaries.
>>47699981
I like syllabaries.
Also, there's a neat book, the Art of Language Invention. I recommend it. If nothing else, it's fun.
>>47699607
Is there a resource that can teach you Elvish? I know people can learn Klingon.
I like making up words in a language that doesn't exist and then giving the words meaning, so I can make names that mean really cool stuff, or just make a cool name with no meaning, but sounds like it's some ancient language
