#devanagari

[daybreaksys]

the Aurebesh isn't very great from a conscripting perspective. not only because it's a fucking cipher (a mere font to write in English, with English nonsensical spelling rules) but also because all letters are blocky squares.

Which us fine because this isn't the focus of Star Wars, it's purpose isn't to work well linguistically or practically, it is to set an atmosphere and pretend it's not English

Chinese, Japanese and other syllabic scripts work that way because each symbol stands for a while syllable, not an individual sound. and English has syllables with massive consonant clusters like scratch

an alphabet needs many tall, thin letters like l i r q r t p d f h j k l b

if all letters are fat and wide like ლ then any text occupies far too much space and is overly long. and larger chunks of text consume exponentially more space, paper, ink, digital pages, stablishment titles, etc, not to mention being annoying to read

the simplest solution is to create thinner versions of each letter, making them thinner and thinner until it's a totally different alphabet

a different solution that preserves the blocky feel is to combine letters together into ligatures, like in Hindi, specially for common words and consonant combinations, so, fusing E and R into a single ER letter, for example.

to illustrate, this is "Republic" in canon Aurebesh:

and this is "Republic" after combining some letters:

we could go more aggressive and combine more than two letters, but speakers would have to know all ligatures, but that's fine, Hindi speakers learn hundreds or millions of letter combinations and they're not random, they are intuitive

now with Skywalker:

of course, i'd still prefer to make an alphabet which actually makes sense

real life example: Korean

if we wrote English with the Hangul, Republic would be 러풉맄

[ㄹ=r][ㅓ=e][ㅍ=p][ㅜ=u][ㅂ=b][ㄹ=l][ㅣ=i][ㅋ=k]

ㄹ+ㅓ=러

ㅍ+ㅜ+ㅂ=풉

ㄹ+ㅣ+ㅋ=맄

canon Aurebesh would spell it ㄹㅓㅍㅜㅂㄹㅣㅋ

Hindi:

र=e रे=re फ=p फु=pu

ब=b ल=l ब्ल=bl ब्लि=bli ख=c

रेफुब्लिख = Republic

canon Aurebesh would spell it रएफउबलइख

#languages #alphabets #alphabet #aurebesh #star wars #ligature #ligatures #clone wars #star wars prequels #sw prequels #conscripting #conscript #worldbuild #worldbuilding #hangul #devanagari #devanāgarī #देवनागरी #한글

[cynthicaster]

Ranking my favourite natural writing systems by sexual appeal

1. Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ

2. Tibetan: བོད་སྐད

3. Mkhedruli (Georgian): მხედრული

4. Baybayin (Tagalog): ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔

5. Devanagari (Sanskrit and Hindi): देवनागरी

6. Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי

7. Arabic: كتابة عربية

8. Javanese: ꦧꦱꦗꦮ

9. Thai: ภาษาไทย

10. Bengali: বর্ণমালা

11. Sinhalese (Sri Lankan): සිංහල (yes this is the language with the ඞ character)

12. Greek: ελληνικά

13. Katakana (Japanese): カタカナ

14. Hangeul (Korean): 한글

15. Hiragana (Japanese): ひらがな

16. Amharic (Ethiopian): ኢትዮጵያ

17. Kanji (Japanese): 漢字

18. Syriac (Aramaic): ܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ

19. Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑

20. Mandarin (Sorry, it’s the only Chinese language I’m semi-familiar with, I’m basic): 官话

21. Cyrillic (Slavic): кириллица

I LIKE ALL OF THESE, I JUST LIKE SOME EVEN MORE THAN OTHERS

#linguistics #writing systems #burmese #tibetan #georgian #baybayin #devanagari #sanskrit #hindi #hebrew #arabic #javanese #thai #bengali #Hebrew and Burmese are the ones I’d write English in

[survivetoread]

𑘦𑘻𑘚𑘲 𑘩𑘲𑘢𑘲𑘭𑘰𑘙𑘲 𑘊𑘎 𑘀𑘝𑘲𑘫𑘧 𑘔𑘰𑘡 𑘎𑘡𑘪𑘿𑘮𑘨𑘿𑘘𑘨 𑘭𑘰𑘢𑘚𑘩𑘰.

(I found a very nice Marathi to Modi script converter)

𑘊𑘎𑘰 𑘪𑘺𑘎𑘩𑘿𑘢𑘲𑘎 𑘀𑘭𑘿𑘝𑘲𑘝𑘿𑘪𑘰𑘝 𑘦𑘨𑘰𑘙𑘲 𑘥𑘰𑘬𑘰 𑘀𑘫𑘲 𑘟𑘲𑘭𑘝 𑘀𑘭𑘝𑘲.

(In an alternate reality, the written Marathi language would have looked like this)

#marathi #langblr #languages #indian languages #devanagari #does the name of the script remind you of someone? #doesn't remind me of anyone important no

[renegade-hierophant]

Typography of Devanagari, Bapurao S. Naik, Directorate of Languages, Maharashtra, 1965

#devanagari #typography #script #abugida #hindi #marathi #nepali #sanskrit

[kaumudi]

ok, i have decided to learn urdu script. so wish me luck. I'll be writing (typing more likely) devanagari and urdu alphabets side by side as a practice.

अक्षर (हुरूफ़)

1. अलिफ़ ا

2. बे ب

3. पे پ

4. ते ت

5. टे ٹ

6. से ث

#Urdu #hindi #desi #languageblr #hindustani #rekhta #urdu script #devanagari #adding next set of alphabets in subsequent reblogs

[quadmix77]

aphex twin doodles

aphex twin doodles

#aphex twin #doodle #doodles #japanese #devanagari #firealpaca #pixels #united kingdom #art #omg is that aphex twin #cursive #meme

[a-vowel-isdown]

Here is an alphabet-abugida mix script for my conlang.

This is my third attempt at it, and this one was inspired by devanagari

Here's an horribly handwriten bit of "the north wind and the sun" translated and put into script.

I really like how it came out, it doesn't feel too forced like my previous attempts, this one feels natural.

#conlangs #conlang #neography #language #languages #calligraphy #devanagari

[giggymantis]

Basque-Family Conlang I am working on.

#basque country #conlang #conlanging #constructed language #devanagari #i am become death destroyer of worlds #wip

[milestoneloc]

Devanagari script

#Devanagari #IndianLanguages #Script #india #sanskrit #Hindi #Marathi #Nepali #language history #Language Art

[lamariposaverdeblog]

Vegan (devanagari) Racerback Tank Top by lamariposaverde

#findyourthing #redbubble #racerback tank top #vegan #devanagari

[hindisoup]

ष is the second sibilant consonant of the Hindi script and is described as a voiceless retroflex fricative. It's a loan sound from Sanskrit and some sources say that in modern Hindi its pronunciation hardly differs from that of the previous sibilant श. You can notice the difference however when comparing where the sibilant forms in your mouth when pronouncing नष्ट [naṣṭ] or नाश्ता [nāśtā].

There are only a few irregular consonant conjuncts with ष, one being ष + ट = ष्ट as seen above, ष + ठ = ष्ठ as in निष्ठा [niṣṭhā] and क + ष = क्ष as in शिक्षा [śikṣā] (and yes here I am pronouncing this word repeatedly while writing this trying to hear if I can make two different sh-sounds in one word and kind of maybe?).

Anyway, ष is very rare as the initial letter of any word in Hindi, and all words written with it are loan words from Sanskrit. So far I've only encountered two words starting with it - and with these too we can see that they seek their place close to other retroflex sounds:

षड्यंत्र [ṣaḍyantra] - conspiracy (masculine) षट्कोण [ṣaṭkoṇ] - hexagon (masculine)

#हिंदी #हिन्दी #hindi #language learning #langblr #languageblr #Devanagari #pronunciation

[letterrankingworldchampionship]

#linguistics #languages #poll #writing #alphabet #abugida #devanagari #armenian #armenia #india

[anandako]

Custom Devanagari Font designed exclusively for Galaxy 4K TV, Nepal Designed by: Ananda K. Maharjan, 2021 Contact me for custom Font Design font, logotype, calligraphy for a brand, movies, books. https://www.instagram.com/nepalifonts/ https://www.facebook.com/nepalifonts

#Devanagari #Nepali fonts #Ananda font #Galaxy4k font #Type Design #Font Design

[renegade-hierophant]

Japanese Hiragana and Hindi Devanagari

#japanese #hiragana #hindi #devanagari #syllabary #alphasyllabary #abugida #scripts #calligraphy

[normalweirdoboy]

For those of you who don't understand Hindustani, here's a rough English translation:

What nation is this

That's stained in my brother's blood?

What nation is this

That burns in the flames of religion?

What sort of citizens are these

Who couldn't even save their country?

What sort of citizens are these

Who are disloyal to themselves?

What sort of a heart is it

That's unaware of patriotism

That instead in the shade of envy and hatred

Implements such massacres...

And what are you?

Think

Think what you are

Because this nation is yours

And you are it's populace...

I have just this request to make

Be a Ghalib, not Iqbal

And now fill that heart with peace.

- Ogni (me)

#hindustani #urdu #hindi #rekhta #poetry #india #desi #shayari #south asia #poem #kavita #nazm #devanagari #nastaliq #communalism #poemblr #indian #communal violence #ye kaisa watan

[survivetoread]

Please Microsoft for the love of god, replace the Aparajita and Mangal fonts in your Windows font list.

I don't think there are any uglier Devanagari fonts in existence.

#devanagari #marathi #langblr #fonts #typography