Abjoid Latinate One
This is a proof-of-concept font, just to model a script that I created. It can be used to type with, but it isn't beautiful and it isn't perfected. It is literally just a model font file to contain the basic glyph shapes and their relationships, via shared glyph elements, anchorings, etc.
This script is a hybrid script that uses the script construction of Abjoid and the Latinate letter shapes for the five base consonants. Its fundament is identical to Abjoid, but the appearance is so dramatically different that it is almost another script in itself.
You can learn about my conscript Abjoid on my conscripts gitbook website:
Info table
Version
1.011
Availability
Free, GitHub
Latest release
9 August 2025
Inception
Supported scripts
Other glyphs
Abjoid conscript glyphs are based in the of Unicode. You need a custom keyboard layout to type it.
However, I have also mapped Latin letters to approximately equivalent Abjoid glyphs, so you can type in it with your regular keyboard, albeit incorrectly.
Issues
GitHub
Link to the github page to download.
Behance
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Font sites
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About Abjoid Latinate conscript
Letters: five base consonants, consonant diacritic modifiers to construct many phonetic sounds.
Vowels are based on a vowel system attuned to my personal vowel model hypotheses.
Indirectly supports Latin alphabet and NewEng script orthography with equivalent abjoid letters.
Can probably support a range of other scripts, but is not tailored for them.
Can be used to type English, but it's only functional as a cypher, because the Abjoid glyphs represent mouth positions and relative phonemes, whereas Latinate glyphs in English represent a complex (and oft broken) array of sounds and phonetic mutations.
Letters
For Abjoid Latinate conscript, the five base phone letters are mapped as such:
lip
— P
behind upper teeth
— T
behind lower teeth
— S
palate
— C
velum
— K
Diacritics
The diacritic modifiers follow the basic shapes of the modifiers in the Abjoid foundation conscript, but have been drawn in such a way as to be writable within one pen stroke with the letter if possible, and to provide a visually distinctive shape so that the reader can discern the letter and word more quickly:
Unaspirated, unvoiced
None
None
Aspirated
Line above, joined
Dot above
Voiced
Loop below, joined
Dot below
Aspirated & voiced
Loops above and below, joined
Dots above and below
Fricative, unvoiced
Circumflex above, joined
Circumflex above
Fricative, voiced
Caron below, joined
Caron below
Nasal
Ring above, joined
Ring above
Breath
Ring below, joined
Ring below
Glide
Dome above
Three dots above
Breathed glide
Dome above, ring below
Three dots above, ring below
Silenced letter
Grave above
Grave above
English Alphabet glyphs
To write the English and NewEng alphabet orthographies, customised letters have been created, not dissimilar to how some hanzi/kanji are created. The base glyph is the phonetic glyph from Abjoid, and upon it is marked some kind of shape reminiscent of the English letter that it represents. This is for prreservation of spellings for etymology and phonemic mutation.
Main examples are C, Ç, K, Ʞ and Q:
K is always /k/, and is sometimes silenced, K̀.
The Latinate base glyph is actually K-shaped. K is also the only phonetically-stable glyph, so this base glyph is unmodified for English.
Ʞ is primarily /k/, but may be smudged into /ʃ/ in words entering via French, spelled as Ʞ̇.
Ʞ in the NewEng glyph block is a rotated K. A diacritiqued version for /ʃ/ is being drafted.
Q is always /k/, but goes with ⟨U⟩ because of vowel positioning (it descends from Ancient Greek's letter qoppa, Ϙ, ϙ).
Q in the English glyph block is a K glyph with a Q-like hook tail, visually akin to Q and q.
C is /k/ as ⟨ca⟩, ⟨co⟩, ⟨cu⟩; but C is /s/ as ⟨ce⟩, ⟨ci⟩, ⟨cy⟩, and often undergoes assimilation when the e, i or y is proceeded by another vowel. These sound mutations are at least as old as Latin.
C in the English glyph block is a K glyph with a small C-shaped hook at the start of the line to indicate its difference. This allows readers to understand that the spelling is a C but the pronunciation may become a /s/ (or similar) if standard English orthographic spelling applies.
Ç is always /s/, and Ç̇ is /ʃ/
This letter has not yet been designed in Abjoid. Most likely, it will be a /s/ sounding glyph with a C-shaped hook modifier, akin to the modified K.
Another good example is Y, which functions as a glide consonant in onset position, a vowel in medial positions, a closing diphthong in codas and some medial positions, and both a closing diphthong and glide consonant in vowel-medial positions. It is one of the craziest letters, actually.
Despite all these variations, we can reduce it to two basic functions:
Y as a consonant, /j/ — you, yes, yellow, young
Y as a vowel,
/ɪj/ — happy, funny, easy
/ɑj/ — by, my, fly, cry, dry,
Y as a consonant is the default value of the Y glyph in the English glyphset of Abjoid Latinate, a palatal base glyph marked with a glide diacritic modifier:
Y consonant glyph vector here
Y as a vowel is the secondary value of Y and is marked with an /ɪj/ vowel inside the base Y glyph.
Y vowel glyph vector here
Images
to include:
Vectors of all base glyphs
vectors of all diacritics
vectors of all vowels
vectors of Abjoid NewEng glyphset
Letters
Numerals
Numerals are not yet designed.
include:
Vector image of numerals
Vector image of dot-derived numerals
Sample words
include: Vector images of a range of words, specifically ones containing NewEng letters
Resources for using Abjoid
Keyboard layout (Windows only, for now)
Abjoid conscript usage guide (how to convert IPA to Abjoid, and how to type Abjoid)
Font: Abjoid Latinate One (this page)
Font: Abjoid Blocky One
To Do
Further development
Vowels are currently identical to those in Abjoid base script, which is not a problem but isn't in keeping with the Abjoid Latinate conscript concept.
incomplete aspects of the font
diacritics, etc
maye feature initial and final glyph forms, akin to the Arabic abjad script style.
Fixes
include: bugs — glyphic, kerning, diacritics
Variants
Abjoid Latinate One
My first foray into adapting the Abjoid conscript into Latin-based glyphs, attempting to produce a hybrid script that blends Latin letter shapes and consonant diacritics, enabling NewEng orthographic spelling.
Abjoid Latinate One also contains a few letter adaptations to respect the letter variants in the English alphabet, such as C-K-Q and the vowel-consonant Y.
ideas for typeface variations -- stylistic exploration
ideas for font variations -- weighting methods, serifs, italicization, etc
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