Scripts & Alphabets
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Some are just teeny ideas
Some are modifications of English and Latin
Some are made to look like other scripts, essentially are just fonts but borrow some orthographic ideas
Some are full-blown new imaginings of how to represent sounds, demonstrating phonic relationships, either just with patterned marks, or featurally — attempting to represent the mouth in some way.
This is my most well-developed script so far.
It is all-encompassing and, thus far, seemingly bug-free.
It copes with the entirety of modern English, preserving etymology and pronunciation and grammatical spelling morphology (like -ed, -s/es, etc.).
Please note that there is another script by the same name. I came up with this (very uninspired) name by myself, and intend to rename it, but at this time I haven't thought of a new name.
Here is the full 41-letter alphabet:
A Æ B C Ç D E F Φ Þ Đ G Ȝ H Ƕ I J K Ʞ L M N И Ŋ O Œ P Q R S Ʃ T Ч U Ȣ V W Ꝏ/Ѡ X Y Z
a æ b c ç d e f φ þ ð g ȝ h ƕ i j k ʞ l m n и ŋ o œ p q r s ʃ t ч u ȣ v w ꝏ/ѡ x y z
I may replace Latin Double-O with Cyrillic Omega Ѡ ѡ in the near future. It is rarely used in modern Cyrillic languages, but it gets much better treatment in modern fonts than Double-O, with decent diacritic anchoring in several major fonts.
You can learn more about NewEng on my dedicated website:
installable Windows keyboard layout
keyboard layout images
Android keyboard layout (built inside a paid app (cheap)
typing training
learn how to spell using it
Oxford 3000 and Oxford 5000 word lists — spreadsheet and .dic (dictionary files for office apps)
alphabet poster — downloadable & printable
In bits and pieces, I've experimented with various ways of depicting numerical values.
Once I accidentally discovered a way to derive our modern numerals from dots. I don't know if this is how they originated, but it works surprisingly well.
include derivation here (photo sent to Ryan)
During the process of script development for a commission job, I derived new numerals for the script using the same dot-based approach. The result was a series of number glyphs which I actually prefer over our own current glyphs — they are dyslexia-friendly, non-ambiguous shapes, and extend to dozenal's 9+1 and 9+2 glyphs, still drawable with a singular unbroken line.
I intend to extend my typeface catalogue with these numerals, contained as alternate numeral glyphs.
include vector image of new numerals in a few typefaces
include link to dedicated page if I create one. Perhaps on my linguistics gitbook site.