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Naeddyr — Aramaic-derived conscript
Published: 2013-02-06 21:04:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 8546; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 29
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This is a simple quickie conscript derived from the Aramaic script (ancestor to both the Hebrew and Arabic scripts; Aramaic itself is very close to the Phoenician script that it descends from, and Phoenician of course was borrowed by the Greeks to be the basis of the western alphabets).The text is just a bunch of Hebrew pangrams ("the quick brown fox...") I got from Wikipedia. The first one has the hebrew equivalent letters.
This is for a story setting with demonological magic. In it, demons are qualitatively equivalent to angels and gods, they are of made of the same stuff. The demons of Abrahamaic religions just happen to be former gods and spirits that YHWH was able to defeat and imprison, especially from old Levantine pantheons: angels are his collaborators, and Satan (maybe I'll go with "the Satan", the title form...) is another 'angel', one who is set to guard over hell (like Maliik in Islam) and tempt believers (to be a Job-botherer). This is why the name of God and other such paraphernalia can compel demons in ritual magic: they're YHWH's victims, after all...
If the core of the demon corps is formed by Levantine gods and pseudo-angels, that probably means they speak something like Proto-Semitic or some kind of descendant language (as do the angels and God). The script they got later.
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How you make these regular shapes of letters ?
Once I was thinking about something similar to this.
Very, very good work ! Can you give the full alphabet with pronunciation ?
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The form a writing system or script is very much bound into the materials and the methods used to write them. They impose restrictions on what shapes you can do, how far you can take it. Cuneiform looks the way it looks because it was written with sharp reeds on clay, and this looks like this because it's written on paper with an ink nib pen held at a 0-degree angle, and written with the right hand. And guidelines on the paper, you can't see them here because they've been postpro'd out.
The key is mostly repetition (which can be used less the more you get used to it...), I just plop down a shape on paper, and then redo that shape, letting the restrictions of what I'm doing determine the path I'm taking with the process.
Anyhow, the pronunciation and stuff for this script isn't complete, but it's going to be close to Hebrew and Arabic, because it's for a language related to those. All the letters are already used in this image (a pangram is a text that uses all the available letters (and maybe letter-FORMS) of a script), and the text itself is just taken from the Hebrew language, so you can check out [link] and [link] to figure it out. :]]
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That's pretty nice, Hebrew feel but with a distinct, unique flavor.
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