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Published: 2014-12-01 23:06:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 3973; Favourites: 67; Downloads: 39
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I always wanted the Agori to have their own alphabet, but it seemed that Lego did not bother to do it before announcing their rescheduled cancellation for Bionicle. Now, since then, I have waited for others to make a written language, but it never happened, so I took it upon myself to do just that. A lot of the letters may look like another because they share a similar sound when spoken, and I took out the letters X and Q because those same sounds could be created with a combination of the given letters, and added the CH, ZH, SH, and TH sounds because they are more unique. I expected the Agori and their heightful bretheren to have spoken Byzantine Greek, meaning Greek with a lot of Latin influence.Half of the characters are taken from this picture here:
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Now tell me, do any of you like it? I can edit any of the characters if need be.
EDIT: This post has been updated. After reorganizing and editing the alphabet, and replacing C with SH, I found another character in the original picture. I made two different versions of it, and I will do what I will with them later. This drawing has been renamed because I will later be making an ancient Agori Alphabet, which will resemble this one but also resemble the Matoran alphabet, and a Skrall alphabet, which will be based off of both versions with it's own stylizations.
EDIT2: This drawing has had it's name changed to fits with problems I have encountered. An ancient Agori alphabet should vaguely resemble the Matoran alphabet since in-story the Matoran alphabet is loosely based off of the Agori one at that time. This would mean an ancient agori alphabet would have to be a combination of this alphabet and the Matoran one. A modern Agori alphabet would most likely be based off of this one and be made more simplistic.
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Comments: 16
luka1184 [2018-09-14 10:10:16 +0000 UTC]
I love this. But I also love Bonesii's take on the alphabet... hmmm. Maybe this is just another version.
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DeltashockOmnihorn [2017-12-08 08:50:55 +0000 UTC]
The alphabet has an inconsistant look to it.
A, B, D, E, F, G, I, L, P, R, look like they belong together.
If B & D look similar, why make G similar too? They are all Voiced Plosives.
..& what are the last to symbols?
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Orionide5 [2014-12-05 23:20:46 +0000 UTC]
I like it, and where you got it from. Did you use all the characters in the image?
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Tahuzilla In reply to Orionide5 [2015-03-09 14:58:41 +0000 UTC]
In the background of the original image I found a crap load of symbols. I had already half of them, while others felt, idk, maybe stupid is too harsh but i think you get the idea. There were two characters that stood out, and in the newer version of this alphabet I have two versions of the same character sitting in a corner. I will figure out which one to pick and what to do with them later.
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Tahuzilla In reply to Orionide5 [2014-12-07 00:25:42 +0000 UTC]
Yes, half of it is from that image while the other half I came up on my own, while others are a combination of others.
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Basement-Aviator [2014-12-02 06:41:37 +0000 UTC]
I like that you made the glyphs correspond with sounds the language contains as opposed to just cyphering the standard Roman alphabet. Looks cool too, reminds me of Chinese combined with Hieroglyphs and fits the art style of BIONICLE.
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Pearllight180 In reply to Basement-Aviator [2014-12-02 17:59:27 +0000 UTC]
These are cool, wish it was a downloadable text for typing (unless it is and I'm not seeing the button). About that little bit of others making their own version of the Agori alphabet, there was this one guy if I remember it correctly, who did design one (his DA name was that1uniqueskahkdi). Sadly the dude left, had a tumblr but I don't remember the name. -_-
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Basement-Aviator In reply to Pearllight180 [2014-12-03 01:15:06 +0000 UTC]
I would probably vectorize it and make a font if I had Photoshop.
That-1-Unique-Skakdi is one of my favorite fanartists of all time. Found his tumblr here but I'm not sure if it contains all of the art he posted to dA. Wish he'd left his account here up, even if he wasn't active... his work was amazing.
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Tahuzilla In reply to Basement-Aviator [2015-03-09 16:09:34 +0000 UTC]
Can you vectorize it via GIMP? I have that in place of Photoshop.
And by the way, what is it to vectorize, or what is a vector image?
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Basement-Aviator In reply to Tahuzilla [2015-03-09 19:16:37 +0000 UTC]
I'm pretty sure there's a way involving the Paths tool. I'm a GIMP user myself but I've never actually tried it... I recommend Googling "GIMP .SVG" instead of asking me about it.
Well, first off, .JPG and .PNG files are types of bitmap files: images consisting of a grid of pixels. Unlike a bitmap, a vector (.SVG file) is saved in the computer as a set of shapes, not pixels, so you can zoom in on it infinitely and it will never get pixely... which is why font characters are vector files. To "vectorize" something is to make it into a vector image, usually by manually tracing it with the Paths tool in GIMP, Pen tool in Photoshop, etc.
(I hope this made sense.)
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Tahuzilla In reply to Basement-Aviator [2015-02-04 08:09:13 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for the link: you are right, his art is very good! I like his Agori font as well. I wonder if my glyphs could be used as a pre-Core War and Core War contemporary for the Agori language and after thousands of years it evolved into his text (Bonesiii on BZPower mentioned something about using my alphabet as a foundation for a modern version, so i guess once he is done I can compare the two.)
...I just realized: I should remove my letter C, it is another redundant letter.
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Basement-Aviator In reply to Tahuzilla [2015-02-18 09:47:22 +0000 UTC]
That's a good idea... languages evolve over time, and especially with a disaster on that scale something is more likely to happen. Maybe the Skrall and Bone Hunters use a slightly different alphabet?
Yeah it is.
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Pearllight180 In reply to Basement-Aviator [2014-12-03 01:21:58 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, I wish he would have done that too....Cool, you found it.
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Basement-Aviator In reply to Pearllight180 [2014-12-03 08:27:01 +0000 UTC]
Always willing to help a fellow man locate something in the vast reaches of teh interweb.
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