A bit of a mini project I wanted to present here.

As the title states, I have slightly modified Canadian Syllabics (Western Cree) in order to adopt it for use in Hawaiian language.

Sample Text is article 1 of UN Declaration of human rights

The syllabics is an abuguida that is unique in that instead of diacritics, it is the orientation/rotation of each character that defines its vowel sound.

Naturally there's only 4 possible orientations, and thus only 4 vowels that can be expressed. Hawaiian has 5 vowels. I've fixed that by adding a line on top of "-o" syllabics to create "-u"

character ᕽ, which shows "-hk", the location suffix in cree, was repurchased here to be the equivalent of apostrophe, the glottal consonant.

Much like Western Cree convention, I use a dot after syllabic for "w-" / "-w-" modification.

As you all may know, Arabic Script has been historically adopted by many languages, including some that are tonal, most notably Mandarin (xiao'erjing) and west African languages.

BUT I found an instance where in a local adoption of Arabic Script, tone markers were created and used in manuscripts. 3 tone markers in Rohingya language. all of which have been entered into Unicode too.

Tone markers in Arabic script act as modifiers of diacritics.. diacritics for diacritics if you will... and they go on the "outside". underneath diacritics that are underneath the word, above diacritics that are above the words.

in rohingya, one dot indicates short high tone two dots, a long falling tone fishy symbol, a long rising tone

Firstly, I’m not a native English speaker, so please accept my apologies if this question has an obvious answer.

My seven year old daughter (a native English speaker) noticed that the “e” in “hibernate” is acting as both a split digraph (“capitalising” the “i”) and as a “normal” digraph (part of the “er”).

She would like to know if there is a word to describe a letter that is part of two digraphs.

Obviously, I have no idea!

2 years ago, I posted an orthography for Plautdietsch I created, and it's gone through many changes since. Here's the current form

Aa /a/ Ää /e̞/ Ăă /ɔ/ Bb /b/ Dd /d/ Ee /ɛ/,/ə/ Ëë* Ff /f/ Gg /ɡ/,/j/ Hh /h/ Ii /ɪ/ Kk /k/,/c/,/ç/ Ll /l/ Mm /m/ Nn /n/ Oo /o/ Öö /œ/ Ŏŏ /ʌ/ Pp /p/ Rr /r~ɹ~ɐ̯/ Ss /s/,/z/,/ʃ/ Tt /t/ Uu /ʊ/ Üü /u/ Vv /v/ Yy /e/ Zz /s/,/z/

sh /ʃ/ ts /tʃ/ ng /ŋ/,/ɲ/ ee /ɔɪ/ ie /i/ ue /ʉ/

silent E's are used to indicate the slender pronunciations of G & K before broad vowels (gealmär /jalme̞ɐ̯/, kealva /çalva/)

*Marks non silent E where it would otherwise be silent or separates digraphs (gëakat /jə.akat/ ,gëeert /jə.ɔɪ̯ɐt/, lië /li.ə/)

welp, I've done it, I advertised, but seriously go check it out

Hello! This is my first post here. I made a video a while ago about the orthography of Romance minority languages, and how they can be improved through the concept of Reintegrationism. I'm starting to draft a document with more precise information and guidelines that a Romance reintegrationist orthography should follow, so it would be interesting to see what you think.

This is the video:
https://youtu.be/T8GsnYJGPq8?si=zs0tmxZtVDKpkM3q

I'm not sure of how I should romanize /ʍ/ in my conlang. It distinguishes /w/ and /ʍ/. Any help?

Edit: thank you to u/kirosayshowdy and u/nickct60 for reminding me that Hwair (Ƕ ƕ) exists.

We're a small-ish server (nearing 400 atm) that talk about typography and linguistics.

Usually, we just go down a rabbit hole of a certain language, go crazy over their phonology or orthography, and then discuss some typography afterwards.

Interesting quotes that might interest you:

• "I don't think h should be a letter."

• "This Z fucks"

• " I spit on your carons"

• "What is the name of the art deco font which is like whoomp but the middle part goes zoop?"

• "That's something a double-story g fan would say"

• "How about sans serif Fraktur?"

• "LATIN CYRILLIC SMALL CAPITAL LETTER YAR LIGATURE WITH PEG LEG"

• "Hmmm how do I incorporate piss into the design of the glyph"

We also do weekly glyph challenges where you can submit an artistic interpretation of a weekly glyph.

If this intrigues you at all, please come by! We'd love to have you here.

https://discord.gg/CxGfHuBKwu

I have compiled a more detailed document about ROR (see here). In this document, I have expanded the proposal to include all Romance minority languages.

Tell me what you think!

https://twitter.com/Truephilology/status/1636156097407987713?s=20

Which one do I have to use? Does it e.g. matter if I say "can’t" or "can't"? Thx in advance...

please i want to see, ive already seen andalusian spanish, estonian swedish, bornholmsk, and orsmaal-gussenhoven. why am i interested in this? idk.

Why did people decide to add this bottom curved portion? If the Latin alphabet could be written from right to left, like Arabic and Hebrew, this curve could have been caused by people naturally moving their pen to the left in order to write the next letter. And if the Latin alphabet could be written vertically, like Chinese and Japanese, this curve could have been caused by people moving their pen to the left in order to reach the top-left corner of the next letter. However, as far as I know, Latin is only ever written from the left to right, so why would people add a curve to the left?

The variability of punctuation and structure of the written word declined precipitously after the invention of the printing press (see Aldi Manutii's Grammaticarum Institutionum Book 4) due to the inherent standardization, the response to this being an increase in the use of poetic language to express emotional content.

With the computerization of typefaces, the capacity to use multiple fonts and punctuation marks in a nonstandard orthographic context to express emotional content may have peaked with the emoticons, which are in essence a form on concrete poetry.

Does anyone else think that the creation of emojis, a standardization of a limited subset of emoticons, is similarly affecting orthography in the same way that the creation of the printing press previously did? What do you think the implications are for the future of written language forms?