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View submission: Progress on Ainu script font
Looks awesome. Is this an alphabet, a syllabary or just a WiP?
There's definitely an opportunity to get more wide spread adoption. The current katakana based system is really sub optimal.
It uses too many dreaded digraphs, like the syllable 'tu' is トゥ and 'we' ウェ.
Since Japanese doesn't have the 'ch' sound they confusingly use チ ('ti' in japanese). By itself it represents the 'chi' sound, but the other 'ch-' syllables are digraphs.
Also, the consonant-final syllables can be confusing and aren't very easy on the eye - like 'kor' コㇽ (which could mistaken as 'koru').
Comment by Perpetually-broke at 01/11/2024 at 00:49 UTC
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I'm honestly not sure how to categorize it lol. Because in creating this, even though I tried to keep the glyphs as simple as possible, my number one priority was aesthetics. I wanted it to be aesthetically pleasing and I wanted it to resemble actual Ainu art, specifically Ainu embroidery designs on their traditional clothes. So in doing that, what I ended up with is a system where some letters reverse their direction depending on if they're at the beginning or end of a word, and some letters connect to each other and others don't. It's not a pure syllabary like katakana because there's consonants separate from vowels, but I'm also not sure if "alphabet" accurately describes it either.
Comment by hyouganofukurou at 01/11/2024 at 08:12 UTC
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It is コㇿ not コㇽ no?