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This Is The Dumunoan "alphabet", It Was Hard To Define An Order For The Glyphs Considering How They Are

This Is The Dumunoan "alphabet", It Was Hard To Define An Order For The Glyphs Considering How They Are

this is the dumunoan "alphabet", it was hard to define an order for the glyphs considering how they are written, if you were to write a glyph it wouldnt be a single sound per glyph, it would look more like this

This Is The Dumunoan "alphabet", It Was Hard To Define An Order For The Glyphs Considering How They Are

with two sounds mixing together to make a single glyph, every glyph is made of a vowel and a consonant, and depending on which sound comes first, if the vowel comes first it ends up on the top of the glyph, and if the consonant ends up on top it comes first

This Is The Dumunoan "alphabet", It Was Hard To Define An Order For The Glyphs Considering How They Are

it took a long time to write out and figure out everything, but this is the the sounds all of the glyphs make, along with a handful of words of the language all of which being important religious figures on dumuno which is a ramble post for another day the translations for the words will be explained in a sense from the first word

ki-ɹə ki meaning earth [as in rocks and dirt and such] ɹə meaning power

leading to the name kiɹə the deity of earth and power

due to how i created this languages words i've had to work with loopholes and potential cultural ideas for dumunoans to create new words out of my limited glyphs, such as the name of the language being ɱa-ɱo, which means information carving, or fish being ʎu-iɹ meaning swimming reptiles, which is, if infuriating, makes for a very interesting conlang in my opinion, if you have any questions about this conlang at all please dont be afraid to ask, i am more than happy to answer


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