#constructed languge

[aeniith]

Ori words for Lextreme2018

Sept 24

Ori: [n, inan] gi-s /gis/ ‘sign, signal’ From root GI- ‘sign’: gia ‘signal, wave, indicate; intend, mean’, hagi-s ‘good news’, cligi-s ‘bad news’, lungiya-s ‘sign language’, gili-s ‘subtle hint’, muligi-s ‘tree ring’, pyelligi-s ‘pain as a symptom’, sestagi-s ‘life sign’, syalorigi-s ‘seal of a king’, uligi-s ‘sign [of a business]’. 

Sept 25

Ori: [v] pile /‘pile/ ‘fold, tuck’ 

From root PIL- ‘crease, fold’: pilenya ‘folder (of clothing)’, pilan-is ‘fold, crevice, niche’, pilye-s ‘sword forged through folded steel technique’, pilunta-s ‘bedspread with a decorative top fold’, pilia-s ‘folder for papers’, respilyu-s ‘style of shirt with sleeves folded up’, hapile ‘bow, genuflect’.  This one has a picture that goes with it. ^_^

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[ohwellexplosion]

a cipher as "language"

˥˧I˧I˨I˨*˥꜌˥˧˥꜖*˥꜖˥꜖˥꜊*˥˧I꜔I˥-˥꜌I˨-

˥꜖˥˧˥꜖*˥˨I˩˥꜌˥꜊*ʭ˦˥꜌˥꜌ ˥˧a˥˧˥꜖-ʭ˦˥꜌-I꜔I˥-˥꜌I˨-ʕʖ<> ˥˨˥꜖˥꜖˥꜊*˥꜖˥꜔-˥꜌I˨-I꜔I˥-˥˧˥꜖˥꜔ ꜑˦ʭ꜈˥꜖˥꜒*I˩˥꜌˥꜊*˥꜊˥꜖-˥꜌I꜖-I꜔I˥-˥˨˥꜌˥˧˥꜖*ʕʖ<>

hmm, It's a lot easier to read in a fixed width font and prettier when I can format the words into blocks, but this says something along the lines of:

my name is (omitted)

I think that a cipher is interesting as a language

This was a fun little project I did because of my constant world building efforts. I reached the point where the culture I had would benefit from having a written language, and I wanted something that could be spoken, followed consistent rules, gave some impression of the ideology of the peoples behind its development and looked good.

it's something of a pain in the ass to speak, actually, and I can't really write down a phonetic version because some of the symbols translate into body language rather than spoken word. literally translated from the spoken words only, the above reads: "*name* think cipher interest language" which sounds dumb.

thankfully It no longer takes me five minutes a word because I built a nifty python "translator" that does all the heavy lifting.

I'm proud of it because of the way you can achieve bluntness, vagueness and poetry with ease; the tone is super obvious and malleable.