I made a typeable writing system! (and a language for it)
4 years ago
So, I've been working on a conlang for a while now as a sidepiece/ world-building aid for a long-term project. It's a loosely Semitic thing (it has a similar tri-consonantal root system and the phonology is relatively similar to Modern Hebrew) with some personal touches thrown in - active/stative alignment, pragmatic word order (VSO default), and use of perfective/imperfective instead of tense, to name a few. (This isn't the "special writing project" I mentioned in the last journal, that's a shorter-term thing).
Right now the language has the working name of Koboldic, which is what the humans trying to decipher it in-universe call it. It's native speakers call it... well I haven't actually figured out much vocabulary yet, so I don't know what the exact words are. It will translate to something like "Interstellar Common."
A while back, I developed a really streamlined writing system for the language, and today I figured out how to make it type-able... sort of. The actual script is a right-to-left cursive featural abjad. The typed version is a more computer friendly thing that doesn't require messing about with Unicode. It's left-to-right (until I figure out how to change it) and uses optional Matres Lectionis. It also has a Kaktovik inspired numeral system, but in hexadecimal instead of vigesimal. It works on a US standard keyboard layout.
Anyway here is the link to the font: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructio.....46938/koboldic if you want to see how it looks. I have no artistic/drawing ability, so it is very geometric - a whole bunch of parabolas, diamonds, triangles, and circles.
UPDATE: I got it right to left! I mapped the letters onto the Hebrew keyboard. It works, though the numbers are still left to right. Close enough!
Right now the language has the working name of Koboldic, which is what the humans trying to decipher it in-universe call it. It's native speakers call it... well I haven't actually figured out much vocabulary yet, so I don't know what the exact words are. It will translate to something like "Interstellar Common."
A while back, I developed a really streamlined writing system for the language, and today I figured out how to make it type-able... sort of. The actual script is a right-to-left cursive featural abjad. The typed version is a more computer friendly thing that doesn't require messing about with Unicode. It's left-to-right (until I figure out how to change it) and uses optional Matres Lectionis. It also has a Kaktovik inspired numeral system, but in hexadecimal instead of vigesimal. It works on a US standard keyboard layout.
Anyway here is the link to the font: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructio.....46938/koboldic if you want to see how it looks. I have no artistic/drawing ability, so it is very geometric - a whole bunch of parabolas, diamonds, triangles, and circles.
UPDATE: I got it right to left! I mapped the letters onto the Hebrew keyboard. It works, though the numbers are still left to right. Close enough!

Vauruk
~mysticdragon01
Wonderful to see the application of a passion for linguistics! Creative and robust stuff.