r/neography • u/Painted_Polarbear • 14h ago
Alphabet WIP script for my alien species
this has been a few years in the making and it's still being refined as i use it and find easier ways of writing certain letters but i really wanted to share and get feedback at this point.
i follow the usual english grammar rules with a few changes:
- in mixed case writing where there are capital letters they are doubled even if the word is only two letters long
- there are different ways of writing certain letters when the subject requires respect, e.g. names, titles, important things (this one is still being worked out as to all that would require these letters), to not use these can be a great offense depending on the situation
there are two ways of writing:
- Tapa Gazeil - this is all caps and is the most casual and prominent form of writing, however it is seen as 'lower class' and unproffessional in many places. it is the first way of writing taught as it's the most accessible with less letters to remember and less rules about what cases go where
- Speir Gazeil - this mixes the cases, the higher classes use this always, as do more 'formal' professions such as doctors, scientists, politicians etc. it is also taught and used in higher learning and is always used in documents and contracts regardless of who will use them
when writing a signiture it's common to join bits of the letters similar to cursive but there is no standardised way of doing this, this is only used for signitures and decorative purposes and isnt a way to write normally
they use grids for writing rather than lines the majority of the time
the alien language is just a mix of scottish gaelic, english, irish, and completely made up words i pick purely based on what i think sounds best and looks better when written with my alphabet and sometimes i double letters in words if i think it looks good, the project i'm using it in is a mostly artistic one and so the writing has to be aesthetic as well as functional.

