#asamic

[igoryelin]

A sample of what the Asamic script used for my conlang (Asamvuk) looks like now.

I post it mostly for the aesthetics, BUT:

as you can see, some characters are more complex than others. for example the 2nd one is a single syllable ("ḋa" /d͡ʐa/ – animal)

then there are the complex characters, made up of two to four base (simple, single syllable) characters. characters 4-6 are made up of two base characters (the 6th is "ma" (about) + "sọŀ" (meeting) = "masọŀ" /masʲɔw/ – conference)

characters 1 and 3 are made up of three base characters.

the 3rd one means "wild animal" (one that specifically lives in a forest). the first two characters are both "sạ" /sʲa/ – plant. together they mean "forest". BUT the third one is "ḋa" /d͡ʐa/ – animal. together they give us "sạsạḋa" /sʲa.sʲa.d͡ʐa/ – wild animal.

simple. the Asamic script might have many many thousands of characters in total, but you can read most of them knowing only.....a couple thousand!

one word = one character

90% of the time you stack the characters from top to bottom, left to right. but there are exceptions, where the characters have a more original structure, like:

• a 2:1 size ratio (characters size) instead of the standard 1:1. 2:1 is used for example for making adverbs: the character turning the adjective into an adverb has no reason to be as big as the adjective itself!

• in characters made up of 3 base characters, one (usually the first one) might be half the size of the entire character instead of 1/3. also to show its the most important part of it.

• characters made up of 4 base characters are practically always standard in structure.

[igoryelin]

Asamvuk phonology and orthography

consonants:

b – /b/

c – /t͡s/

ć – /t͡ɕ/

ċ – /t͡ʂ/

d – /d/

ď – /d͡ʑ/

ḋ – /d͡ʐ/

ḍ – /d͡z/

f – /f/

g – /ɡ/

h – /h/

ḣ – /x/

k – /k/

l – /l/

ŀ – /w/

n – /n/

ń – /ɲ/

ṅ – /ŋ/

m – /m/

p – /p/

r – /r/

s – /s/

ś – /ɕ/

ṡ – /ʂ/

t – /t/

v – /v/

y – /j/

z – /z/

ź – /ʑ/

ż – /ʐ/

vowels:

a – /a/

e – /ɛ/

i – /i/

ı – /ɨ/

o – /ɔ/

u – /u/

ả – /ã/

ẻ – /ɛ̃/

ỉ – /ĩ/

ỏ – /ɔ̃/

ủ – /ũ/

palatalisation:

the dots under the vowels serve as an indicator of palatalisation of the preceding consonant:

ạ ẹ ị ọ ụ

for example:

rạ -> /rʲa/

lẹ -> /lʲɛ/

sị -> /sʲi/

kọ -> /kʲɔ/

mụ -> /mʲu/