döm-batchnim ä-dadat e'henejj

1│döm-batchnim │ a fragment defaced

2│ä-dadat e'henejj│crushed along the road

3│urrtöl│I’m drinking

4│tetimmörrats│from the pity cup

5│ömsuume enlem│clay into dust

6│ä-delah│is turned

7│atch käätshash un (?)│don’t you understand?

8│heih un (!)│don’t laugh!

9│isnajj(y)atöl│I have lost

10│nim" ut urasaš│night(s) and the conjoined lights, moon and stars

11│asjjm│aplenty

12│metasuud│(immersed) in that tablet

from a colloquially written letter from an ätchgöan scribe to his friend, upon a tablet he brought with him while travelling breaking on his journey

if you know the contents of the shattered tablet itself, the tone of this letter sounds less like an author’s lament for his lost WIP and more of an Ao3 is down *cries* don’t mock me cause I’m sad kind of vibe

final note: ätchgöan cuneiform assigns pronunciation to sounds but not letters to words, and so writing/orthography is highly varied; the latin letters assigned to the ätchgöan text above are not a direct transliteration of the cuneiform, but reflect the ‘standard’ approximated reconstruction of the terms as they appear in my dictionary (I blame reading in Middle English and more for this development)

hello, i wrote a new blogpost about deciphering the sea people alphabet in Dave the Diver

🧜‍♀️ read it here

akar ek gar

vessel 1SG.ABS [2SG.ERGø]give

Give me a vessel

it would probably make more sense to do some kind of antipassive and elevate the vessel from oblique to absolutive tho

doing some housekeeping in the lexicon today

• notating CVC glyph usage for existing entries so i can do a frequency analysis and maintain phonetic diversity going forward (since i tend to reuse the same sounds)
• weeding out lingering 1st draft entries that are no longer viable given current phonotactics
• reconciling conflicting entries (realized i have three different words for health, with no clear distinction)

i have almost 900 entries in the lexicon now and am about 75%? done with glyph creation

Investigator Proposes Doubling Conscripts’ Daily Allowance | Sweden Herald

Finally sat down and put in a good 8 hours of work on this (thanks MyNoise!) and built up a lot of glyphs including blank areas in the syllabary, as well as these adpositions

and the beginning of the necessary CV- prefix clusters.

Conscripts (Mort’s in Uptown, Minneapolis MN) / 2018

Devastating hardcore punk. This exact show, their debut, happens to stream from Bandcamp (Length: 11:32): Listen

“You will come back [from the war] as men!” 🤡

Russian conscripts are sent to Russia’s Belgorod region.

they are kids and they are all going to die within weeks of arriving at the front 🤌

Argent Conscripts
Three out of four

Script idea because why tf not?????? Specific to my clong in some larts but still useable for others elsewhere sooo

Also comboes of 3 of the same in a row don’t mix so this is more of a base for a real script

phonemic alphabet btw :333

IPA TONE BARS script

Consonants:

First & Second tones

BL D A PA V G

P ˥˥ ˥˧ ˥˩ ˥˩̙ pb td kg ʔ

J ˥˥̍ ˥˧̍ ˥˩̍ ˥˩̙̍ p’ t’ k’

K ˥˦̩ ˥˧̩ ˥˩̩ | ! q͡!ǃ̺

N ˦˥ ˦˧ ˦˩ m n ŋ

F ˨˥ ˨˦ ˨˧ ˨˨ ˧˩ ˧˩̙ ɸβ θðszɬʃʒ x h

A ˩˥ ˩˧ ˩˨ w rl j

Third tones

˦ – Voiceless

˧ – Lateral Voiced

˨ – Voiced

Vowels: ˧ First tone

C M O

˧˥ ˧˧ ˧˩ i e a

˧˥͗ ˧˧͗ u o

˧˥̥ y

Third tone

˥ – long vowel

˧ – short vowel

˩ – lateral vowel*

combine 3 tones to get your letter!

/p/ ˥˥˦ /b/ ˥˥˨ /ɬ/ ˨˧˧ /eː/ ˧˧˥

each letter has a single space separation, and words have 3 spaces of separation

˨˥˨ ˧˧˧ ˩˨˨ ˧˥˥ ˥˩˦ ˧˥˥͗ ˩˧˧ :3 /βɛriː kuːl/ very cool

*“lateral vowels” are vowels pronounced as part of a double articulation with a lateral approximant, usually /l/ but /ʎ/ or /ʟ/ for i & y or u respectively

Now that I’m assigning meanings to all these single syllables, playing with rebuses etc., I think it’s really going to reshape my ideas of the language and how it works.

Glyphing

I’ve wanted to make a logosyllabary forever cause I’m obsessed with Classic Maya but it’s almost too much cause anything I draw I’m like “ehhhh the Maya did it way cooler” :P

However. I am trying. I isolated all the syllables that form a single-syllable concretish noun and I’m gonna do some sketches for them.

Putin orders 150,000 conscripts into military service – DW – 03/31/2024

The conscripts had previously been assured they would not be ordered to the frontlines in Ukraine. This despite mounting losses in the war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to enroll 150,000 conscripts into the military, a document posted on the Kremlin’s website showed on Sunday.

All men in Russia are required to serve one year of compulsory military service.

According to Statista, Russia has approximately 1.32 million active military personnel and two million reserve military personnel.

Conscripts not destined for Ukraine

Compulsory military service has long been a sensitive issue in Russia. Many men try to avoid conscription during the twice-yearly call-up periods.

The Defense Ministry had previously assured conscripts they would not be sent to the front in Ukraine as they cannot legally be deployed to fight outside Russia.

However, on Sunday, the ministry also published a document releasing soldiers who had completed their basic training from service.

These trained soldiers have the option to volunteer for service in Ukraine, but many feel pressured to sign up.

Les Marie-Louise by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville

The Language of the Lords reflects everything the ruling class holds dear: triumph, treasure, and the elite status of the demonic race. Poems and stories are shared through the oral tradition of performance and writing is usually reserved for “historical” documents, grandiose retellings of events that may or may not have gone down quite as recorded. For this reason, the demonic writing style does not lend itself well to quick note-taking or casual texts.

The demonic script is made up of glyphs featuring imagery important to demons; angel imagery is usually reserved for phonetic symbols or less important elements. The script contains several different types of glyphs: heads, slabs, flags, pillars, and banners. Each serves a different phonetic and grammatical purpose.

Heads are used to indicate important words like nouns and verb roots. A single head represents one syllable; words comprised of more than one syllable are made up of multiple heads in a row biting each other. The head is made up of four parts: the eye (initial consonant), nose (vowel), mouth (final consonant), and the ornamentation.

The Language of the Lords has a limited number of syllables and features many homonyms. To avoid confusion, context is given through a head’s ornamentation, indicating to the reader which category that word belongs to. For example, fa could mean “rib”, “spruce”, or “nail”; by using the body, plant or tool ornamentation respectively, the intended meaning is clear. While the category of word is often omitted in spoken conversation, it is always included in writing. If a word is made up of multiple heads, the ornamentation is placed on the final head.

Left: madlas(shi), “snow
Right: hebdod(be), "oil substance”

You can read more about the Language of the Lords here!

Added a couple more conscripts to my site! Scarab was already posted but in my mind these three are sister scripts so I’m including it here.

• Synapse: link!
• Heart Monitor: link!
• Scarab: link!

Synapse was inspired by brain synapse diagrams, Heart Monitor was inspired by uh.. heart monitors, and Scarab was inspired by scarab beetle muscle diagrams! Wahoo!

I’ve finally compiled a whole bunch of my conlangs and conscripts on my website! If you’re interested in made up languages and alphabets, you can read my painfully detailed write-ups at evegwood.com/languages.

Once again asking, would you like me to make a blog where I will put ALL of my neographic projects, which are counting hundreds by now since I began making them one year ago?