Finished my Bullywug orthography font!
Here’s a picture of all the glyphs and video of me typing a few. I found a few errors I need to fix, but it’s pretty much all done! So exciting! More details coming soon.
Bullywug Updates/Changes
The way we created the orthography (writing system) for Bullywug means that a few things need to change about the syntax. I’ve also just plain changed my mind on a few things after looking at more conlanging resources and thinking more about Bullywug culture. Syllable Structure: In Bullywug, there are base characters for consonants and characters that represent syllables. The base characters are arrangements of dots that the syllabic characters are based off of, and thus much less interesting than the syllabic characters. The previous syllable structure I had of (C)(C)V(C)(ʔ) not only would’ve been impossible because vowels can’t stand on their own, but it also would’ve looked odd with so many dots. When I’m finished with the font for Bullywug I’m creating, I’ll add some examples here. So, the new syllable structure will be (C)CV(C). Vowels In creating the orthography it made the most sense to combine some vowels, (‘a’ and ‘æ’ as well as ‘ʌ’ and ‘ə,’) which left the question of ho...
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