Orthography Samples

Below are samples of the orthographies I've created in the past for various languages. The phrases in the images below don't mean anything: they're simply a representative sample of some of the glyphs that exist in each orthography.

Kamakawi

Goal	Kamakawi's orthography is a mixed orthography (like Egyptian hieroglyphs) that makes use of an alphasyllabary, a set of polysyllabic phonological glyphs, and also logograms. All told, there are over 600 glyphs.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/kamakawi/orthography.html

Aaalis

Goal	Aaalis's orthography was inspired by Tamil and Sinhalese. There's a unique (yet predictable) character written for each consonant+vowel combination, and diacritics used to indicate that a consonant has no vowel following it.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/dl/aaa_samp.png

Njaama

Goal	Njaama's orthography is an alphabetic script where I tried to make a number of characters that were written either above or below preceding or succeeding characters. It also encodes tone with a word-initial punctuation mark.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/njaama/orthography.html

Proto-Drem

Goal	This was a font I created for a fellow conlanger. I was wonderfully pleased with the result, but the language fell into disuse, and the conlanger doesn't appear to be conlanging any longer—which is a shame, because I think this may be one of my better scripts.
Sample
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Sidaan

Goal	Sidaan's orthography was an attempt at an angular, alien orthography suited to a computer console.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/sidaan/orthography.html

Sheli

Goal	Sheli uses a system that's a kind of mix of Korean's Hangul and Devanagari. Consonants are written on top and vowels below, with coda consonants written on the right.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/sheli/orthography.html

Kenakoliku

Goal	Kenakoliku was a group language that a few of us were working on for a time. I created an orthography for it that's written with a dividing line (vowels on top, consonants below).
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/misc/kenakoliku/ex.png

Tan Tyls

Goal	Tan Tyls uses an abjad system somewhat similar to Arabic, but there's no way to express short vowels. It also uses a series of letters that stand for suffixes, prefixes and other affixes.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/tantyls/orthography.html

Epiq

Goal	Epiq uses an alphabet I designed to be rather difficult to write—or, rather, where many characters would require more effort to write by hand than, say, English's characters.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/epiq/orthography.html

Sathir

Goal	Sathir's is an alphabetic system that was inspired by Greek. It's written without spaces with raised dots separating sentences.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/sathir/orthography.html

Wave Script

Goal	This was an experiment of mine from several years ago. The goal was to create a smoother, simpler script—something that could be written in the sand fairly easily.
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Zhyler

Goal	Zhyler's is an alphabetic system I designed to be reminiscent of Latin, but distinct. I drew the characters by hand and then tried to match them up to a roman character, modifying it as needed.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/zhyler/orthography.html

Gweydr

Goal	Gweydr's orthography was designed to be a counterpart to Zhyler's. The two are offshoots of the same language, but their orthographies were created (by each language's speakers) to be different from one another.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/gweydr/orthography.html

X

Goal	X is a purely visual language: there is no aural or oral component. The glyphs are iconic yet stylized.
Sample
Description	http://dedalvs.com/x/