The Oa Writing System

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So I decided to come up with a writing system.
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@junjunjamore7735 6 лет назад

Artifexian: "It is based on Hangul (Korean writing)!" Comments: "Am I the only who noticed he copied Korean?"

@MisterSketch4 6 лет назад

Child Of The Smokeless Fire that was obvious, and he said that himself in the video!

@64156ful 5 лет назад

Exactly why op is making fun of the comments saying it looks like Korean

@Chiro-7548 5 лет назад

Many Koreans confuse Korean Language and Korean Writing(Hangul).

@Kro368 5 лет назад

Haha, as someone learning Korean(and already knowing Hangul) YES I did!! It's an excellent idea I think!!XD

@kuutti256 4 года назад

i also noticed... so get *nae-nae'd*

@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676 6 лет назад

10 is folly 12 is jolly 60 is... OH MY GOLLY

@cyndie26 6 лет назад

Isaac The Destroyer of Stuped Yes, but one may need to come up with 60 numerals, although the Babylonians seemed to have taken care of that.

@paradoxo9111 6 лет назад

I think that since Artifexian said his numbering system would be inspired on the Mayan system, he probably wouldn't need to invent so many symbols if he decided to use a base-60 system.

@MuzikBike 5 лет назад

210 is godly

@Alice-gr1kb 5 лет назад

Isaac The Destroyer of Stuped Babylon...

@tibethatguy 5 лет назад

Link: GOLLY

@Lucy-ng7cw 7 лет назад

I'd love to see a written version of Oa. Especially the cursive

@Artifexian 7 лет назад

Some artifexian viewers are working on this as we speak. Very exciting times.

@entropyzero5588 5 лет назад

Oa block in Unicode coming… when? :D

@mat2468xk 5 лет назад

Does a cursive version of Korean (and Chinese and Japanese) even exist, though?

@TheInterestingInformer 5 лет назад

@@mat2468xk YUP! That what makes it so confusing sometimes to learn for me...

@nuklearboysymbiote 5 лет назад

@@mat2468xk yes

@foxyjambread3826 3 года назад

Artifexian: *bases his writing system on Hangul* Me, who can somewhat read Hangul: *tries to pronounce 'mng'*

@L1M.L4M 2 года назад

Is that referring to the AO thing

@JunoItaliano Год назад

As a Korean, I was really confused by the thumbnail of the video, and some of these letters. They look exactly like 한글

@aswalchitra Год назад

@@JunoItaliano Yea that the letters in the thumbnail look like ㄱㅁㅈstashed upon each other

@JunoItaliano Год назад

@@aswalchitra ikr!

@illusions7457 Год назад

Me trying to pronounce ujmngju be like be like: AAAAAJAJWJAJAAJAJAJAJAIAIAIAIIAIAIAIAIAIAIIAIAIAIAIAIAAAAAAAAAIAIAAAA8AAA8AAAIAAA9AA9AOASAAA9AAA9AAAA9A9AAA9AAA8AIAIAIAAAAAAAAAÑALAALLSKWKSKKASAAÑAÑÑÑAÑÑÑÑAÑAAÑAÑAÑAÑAÑÑAÑAÑAÑAAAAAAASSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGNGNGNNGNGNGNGNNGGSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA9AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÑAAAAOAAAÑAAAOAÑAAAOAAÑAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWHKMG 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38

@joescott 7 лет назад

I've put a lot of work into some of my videos, but I've never created an entire writing system. Damn.

@AvrahamYairStern 3 года назад

Never expected Joe to be here

@TerribleTonyShow 3 года назад

ayo joe scott poggers?

@ufcasual 2 года назад

yet

@KerbalHub 2 года назад

Hi joe

@hulick6910 Год назад

Hmm, verified?

@melody_florum 7 лет назад

I have a feeling that if this became a writing system in a society, the Schwa would evolve into a dot if this was handwritten

@steller7515 6 лет назад

Or an open diamond.

@alicewyan 6 лет назад

or possibly just dropped as it gets dropped from speech

@samizayed1126 2 года назад

similar to Arabic, ig

@omfgmouse 7 лет назад

I think your schwa would be better as an open diamond ◇ rather than a filled diamond ◆ Mainly because if people were writing this with a pen, a ◇ would be much easier to write than a ◆, which could easily turn into a simple dot. Other than that, cool! I'm kind of tempted to try out this system of yours except with English sounds...

@arturmizuno893 7 лет назад

each writing system is adapted to its environment, latin on stone, some writings on clay or bees wax (tablets) were more of a line system ( similar to 1337). Lindybeige has a video on it. so I suppose this system would use nanquim (china ink) to write, instead of convencional pens (I guess)

@pacmanfan1214 7 лет назад

◆ would be way easier to write with a fountain pen.

@3seven5seven1nine9 7 лет назад

In which case with nanquim I can easily see over time the language evolving to just use a • rather than a ♦

@DominoPivot 7 лет назад

I can see the open diamond evolving into a circle with repeated casual handwriting, which would be confusing. I'd go for the dot too, but it would make sense for it to be a diamond if people who wrote this used a brush or quill to write. After all, calligraphy is also a form of art. And perhaps this alphabet is used by a computer-savvy society, who knows :)

@lucillefrancois150 7 лет назад

Keiji Ikari It is based on English sounds.

@earfolds 7 лет назад

Now I'm really, really excited. This is like a hyper-logical Hangul, and the dozenal number system is a very good choice. The diamond-shaped /ə/ is very Arabic, too.

@earfolds 7 лет назад

I have a suggestion for the number system; it may be interesting to make 11 resemble 1, 10 resemble 2, 9 resemble 3, and so on. Just a little nod towards how much more, or how much less, than a round 12 the digit is. I've seen it in some dozenal number systems, and I think it might be an interesting idea for your language.

@jnbaker7422 7 лет назад

Ted Logan For some reson, wrriting in base tweleve with arabic numerals confuses me. It's like writing in english with the Phonecian alphabet. It works, to an extent, but not quite. Therefore my advice to you is to try and make your symbols look as dissimilar to arabice numerals as possible in order to avoid this confusion.

@parthiancapitalist2733 6 лет назад

I rate his language 6/8 so far. I mean any well thought out language would get 7/8, but his isn't all that great. I mean it still is logical and awesome, but not as appealing as _most_ natural languages, though it may get better as he makes more grammar. 8/8 would be totally natural- basically the conlanger starts with a 200000 year old simple as hell oral language, then creates many dialect continuum so as the species explores most of the world, then drives proto languages, then languages. That would be 8/8

@karlpoppins 4 года назад

@@parthiancapitalist2733 Not all conlangs have to be natlangs.

@samizayed1126 2 года назад

@@karlpoppins Some ppl r natlang supremacists

@AlgyCuber 4 года назад

2016 artifexian : wants oa to use base twelve 2019 artifexian : changes to base dozen four

@brunnomenxa 3 года назад

And everything remains changeable.

@oleksiiammo7832 Год назад

base twensy four

@jan_Majeken 10 месяцев назад

CALL IT DOZE- oh wait that is base 6. huh. nevermind the screaming then.

@TheDankBoi69 5 месяцев назад

yes@@oleksiiammo7832

@smuecke 7 лет назад

In order to make your writing system a bit more "oranic-looking" like Hangul, you might want to think about what the people that would speak and write your language might be using as a medium (carve the glyphs on stone, write on paper using a brush, a quill etc.) and start to "erode" the glyphs like do when handwriting - simulate the natural development of your writing system to smooth out those pointy edges etc.

@rowanjoy419 3 года назад

yes, don't forget that hangul was create for just one human. not like others that form naturally. i'm not saying that koreans don't write naturally, it's just that looks very strict.

@robingaming3391 7 лет назад

I tried to make three alphabets, two abugidas, an abjad, a featural alphabet and a logographic system, only to make my world seem realistic, and also to make some analogs to real life countries. My mind stopped working when I tried to do my featural alphabet though. I feel dizzy when I see it.

@misitan42z 2 года назад

I made my own writing system too, based on lip syncs and featural alphabets, It shows the whole process, example is M, first it's how it's mouth sync is, then how it is pronounced after that, each letter can technically become a vowel or consonant, it's just how it's pronounced, does this language work, I don't think so, I might have the same failure as you

@gregli9821 4 года назад

5:00 “And yes, it will be in base 12.” *4 years later* numbering system: in base 16

@7MinutozRapsLetras Год назад

lol

@TheAntiGravityMaster 7 лет назад

Am I the only one that's going to point out that Oa is the Green Lantern planet?

@dormic123 7 лет назад

What has someone stolen the name already!?!?! /sarcasm

@SciFiFan2012 7 лет назад

It's been destroyed so I guess it's ok lol

@dulledmemory4776 7 лет назад

I'm not sure celestial body names have a copyright.

@josephteller9715 6 лет назад

Imaginary worlds within the context of a work of fiction have the same copyright as the work itself and the names of fictional characters within the work so long as it can be proved the original source of the name and it is being used in a similar or derivative manner. This is why Barsoom remains the copyright property of the Burroughs Estate via the John Carter of Mars novel series. So, new name needed.

@TaiFerret 6 лет назад

Joseph Teller Copyright is monopoly, not property.

@TH3P3RS0N42 7 лет назад

My main issue is that it takes a lot of different glyphs to type it out on a computer with all the scaling, which is an important consideration in this day and age. Maybe if you didn't scale it like Hangul's in their sylable blocks, it would be simpler. There's also the issue of dyslexics mixing up a lot of the letters from all the symmetry. This isn't a terrible writing system or anything, but it definitely has room for improvement.

@Artifexian 7 лет назад

Agreed. It is by no means perfect. Perfect takes time and sometime the help of a awesome audience base. :)

@TH3P3RS0N42 7 лет назад

And sorry if I came of overly critical. My goal was to bring up some issues that probably don't come up much, not to pointlessly bash your script.

@SomeBritishGal1 7 лет назад

+Artifexian The Koreans do well enough typing Hangul, just go onto Google Translate and select Korean and keyboard, not really an issue when it's already been done.

@vjorp5332 7 лет назад

It's actually impossible to make that into a fonr :/

@livedandletdie 7 лет назад

Not really. It's just slightly more complicated.

@OmegaTaishu 6 лет назад

Hey, Artifexian. It's been over an year now, how's your language going?

@ryuko4478 5 лет назад

He isn't working on it anymore, he just used it as an example for his early conlanging videos

@ghsk5559 5 лет назад

I was creating a language. That language has two ways for write: Latin Alphabet (with diacritics) and Hangul (using old hangul characters)

@Alice-gr1kb 5 лет назад

Check in

@masynbeene5485 3 года назад

He is still working on it sometimes.

@TheWolfboy180 7 лет назад

why does he sound so sensual at 1:45

@devonoknabo2582 4 года назад

Más papacito más más más Quierooooo esooooooooo

@chassepot3541 4 года назад

Sounds like a minecraft villager

@aldobernaltvbernal8745 4 года назад

@@devonoknabo2582 as a native spanish speaker that hurts to read.

@hlaweardlaighonaghidau6543 4 года назад

Fuck of now I can't unhear it

@abdulmuhaimin9780 7 лет назад

go base twelve!

@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX 7 лет назад

Go hexadecimal!

@jeromej.1992 7 лет назад

base 12 for the win!

@brennanlong464 7 лет назад

Octal is the master race!

@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX 7 лет назад

Octal is cool too

@jacksouthgate4354 7 лет назад

HEX HEX Hex! Jk, I'll always love dozenal

@ryanzarmbinski7446 7 лет назад

When are you getting your unicode block?

@Julio974 7 лет назад

I got the same idea while looking the video !

@illumnigd8649 6 лет назад

im gonna make it bitch

@illumnigd8649 6 лет назад

in a font

@kuko-lukas 6 лет назад

now or never

@kebedezewdie8743 5 лет назад

Either use hangul or Romanize.

@user-xd4fw5wy6m 4 года назад

You're making me extremely excited to see the rest of the series

@GothicWiccan61 5 лет назад

I just so happened to stumble across your channel and fell absolutely in love!! I created my own writing system when I was a teen so watching this was a complete joy, new subscriber :)

@notoriouswhitemoth 7 лет назад

There's nothing wrong with copying Hangul - do what works! Personally, I'm fond of Japanese orthography, with complicated semantic letters indicating meaning and simpler phonetic letters describing the grammar. It's a system I'd like to use as a frame of reference if I ever actually get around to working on a conlang.

@Artifexian 7 лет назад

Those kana smiley faces though...love em :)

@notmik3 Год назад

@@Artifexian シ

@olafvanderveen629 7 лет назад

I thought your system was very elegant. I also just learned Hangul, so this was nice and smooth :)

@gemthepolyglot3258 Год назад

Oh my gosh, this is simple, but brilliant! I love the inspiration from how the mouth moves to create the glyphs.

@toyoung_blue 7 лет назад

As a linguistics lover and a Korean I found your Oa really interesting. :O Please keep going!

@AtOutoftheBlue 7 лет назад

For those of you who don't know what Hangeul is, it's the alphabet of the Korean language (also known as Chosungul in North Korea). It's considered to be rather beautiful and highly logical, with the "y" sound (like in "ya") being represented by an added stroke to the vowel (an example being "ㅏ", which makes an "a" sound, becoming "ㅑ", which makes a "ya" sound.) They also generally use a line to indicate when a consonant is aspirated, like when "ㄷ", which makes a "d" sound, becomes "ㅌ", which makes a "t" sound. It's really beautiful and crazy easy to learn, and I would definitely suggest learning it, and Korean as a whole. 파이팅, and good learning!

@marbleswan6664 5 лет назад

0:45 Hey! That could be a language, you draw those lines for the start of the sound, then the end of the sound, and the reader infers on the in between part. Sort of like what you did, but you can write whole words by showing change over time

@lachlan7181 7 лет назад

Grats on your increasing popularity Artifexian! It's crazy seeing your subscriber count going up so fast

@TheNerd484 7 лет назад

I found this a while ago and thought you might like it. His entire blog is great.

@PelletProject 7 лет назад

This is really neat, and I definitely saw the parallel to Hangul. Now, I'm curious to see if there is a way to write this language in calligraphy, or at least in some form of cursive. A lot of languages are known for having this feature, so would this be possible in Oa?

@civilixxxx8914 6 лет назад

Despite some time passed from creation of this script, I'll try to adopt it for Chinese.

@JayFolipurba 7 лет назад

Ermahgerd, I completely forgot about this channel. Glad you're back! I really like the writing system, it's so logical

@Asodym 4 года назад

I love your use of phi, it is my absolute favorite number of all time. thank you.

@iustinianconstantinescu5498 7 лет назад

0:26 Veritasium T-shirt!

@gamefan1353 7 лет назад

Can't wait to learn me some Oa in the future ^^

@wanderingrandomer 7 лет назад

Dude, that's really clever! There's a brilliant logic behind it that I really love! It kind of reminds me of the alphabet I worked on for my conlang. Stops had the most jagged letters, through to vowels which had the most fluid letters, and voiced consonants had a mark added onto their voiceless counterparts. I also made a separate letter for digraphs, which blend together elements from their constituent consonants.

@DanTheCaptain 7 лет назад

I love the look of Korean and your language Oa. It is so cool. I'd love to learn it when you are finished.

@parthiancapitalist2733 7 лет назад

Hey artifexian! I am really interested in your script. And as some advice, it's nice to have variation in languages, it gives it character. Maybe you should make a proto form of the language first so for example a word like mokalo would evolve into a word with Schwa (mokalo>mokëlë> moklë) and this would be spelt the original way or be spelt like "moklo" without the Schwa letter. I am looking forward to this language please start the videos again!

@lyonnw7691 7 лет назад

This is really interesting and I am really excited to see that there are other people trying to invent their own writing systems and languages as well! I've taught myself Hangul, Cyrillic, Hiragana, Katakana, about 150++ Kanji and Filipino's Baybayin. I already invented a writing system derived from Baybayin but I modified it to suit the Malay pronunciation and other Nusantara languages specifically languages in the Northern Borneo like Rungus and Dusun. As for now, I am the only one who can write and read it proficiently. I don't know how to publish it or anything. I showed it to my friends and they were like, your writing system is too complicated T..T And I was like, compared to Thai or Arabic, my writing system is far more simpler T..T

@user-tc3cd5mg1r Год назад

Hello, I'm a Syrian Arab, I'm thinking about sending a message via messenger to send me a picture of your writing system

@lyonnw7691 Год назад

@@user-tc3cd5mg1r sure

@lyonnw7691 Год назад

@@user-tc3cd5mg1r on which platform you want to have a chat?

@user-tc3cd5mg1r Год назад

@@lyonnw7691 Yes of Corse

@lyonnw7691 Год назад

@@user-tc3cd5mg1r في اي تطبيق تريدني ان ارسال لك my writing system؟ لانني لا استخدم الفيسبوك. Maybe via Instagram or Telegram?

@Dog-eg8lc 7 лет назад

Great work on this Edgar!

@KamatsuKyoto 7 лет назад

Really beatiful writing system, Edgar! Kudos!

@Artifexian 7 лет назад

Ah, now...it's fugly as hell and I'll not here otherwise. :P

@izzrainy7410 6 лет назад

Did the punctuation or number system get finished?

@CBusschaert 7 лет назад

My only question is... would it be natural for a people to create a writing system based on anatomy? I mean, to create a language after some advances in medicine could be done, okay, but to advance in medicine, you need science and scientists, and for them to work efficiently, you need them to be able to write their research papers, right? Don't get me wrong, this system works, as long as there has been other written languages before it, I simply wouldn't believe a "primitive" people (understand a 3000-BC-like people who just started counting their sheeps) could come up with it. Since you start your videos with "let's world build", I assume there is some context, but since you don't give one, I'm just lost in assuming every scenario possible :p

@nicholasw996 7 лет назад

Hangul is exactly that. A writing system devised based on anatomy to bring science and literature to the masses.

@CBusschaert 7 лет назад

***** oh it's based on anatomy? I guess I gotta look up some history stresspoints...

@tuxcup 7 лет назад

Korean immediately pops into my mind. Check out Xidnaf's video (Just be sure to mute the intro).

@user-lw8qy8kj7c 7 лет назад

Xidnaf's video on Hangul explains it really well

@CBusschaert 7 лет назад

DP Trumann Yeah I just saw it

@yongamer 6 лет назад

Channels like this is worthed getting bell notification on.

@5amisntlate 7 лет назад

when i saw your letters in the creating a writing system video i was like they remind me of hangeul... glad to see im not crazy lol and i always appreciate people who also nerd out about how awesome hangeul is lol

@sammy3212321 7 лет назад

I love myself a systematic and phonetic writing system, I made one before I knew about IPA and it appears a lot more organic because of it. It ended up evolving in three stages, increasing in space efficiency before reaching a usable state. Oa looks really promising, but I'm not sold on the strict angles and lines in the alphabet, and although I'm all for the base 12 numerical system, are you trying to create perfect linguistic and numerical systems? What would that say about the society that uses it?

@tofferooni4972 2 года назад

A perfectionist society that strives to insert logic into everything

@sirloinofbeef7446 2 года назад

@@tofferooni4972 So, Vulcans?

@SuperAkiraNakamura 7 лет назад

yup,oa is just like advanced hangul

@telotawa 7 лет назад

I was thinking about doing something similar to this while on a plane ride, but this is way cooler!

@Reofive 7 лет назад

I absolutely LOVE it!! Great job!!

@rebeccacall8554 7 лет назад

One of the things I like to think about when creating conlangs is inclusiveness, or lack thereof. For instance, people who are blind are required to learn the braille alphabet in order to read English. Similarly, the Deaf community uses ASL instead of/alongside English. Do you think the Oa writing system could be understood by people who are blind if the letters were raised, or would you need an Oa braille? Similarly, would it be easy to understand Oa by reading lips if the observer were deaf? Finally, would be language be difficult for people with stutters, or issues with speech due to brain dysfunction/post-stroke? I'd love to get thoughts on this.

@melody_florum 6 лет назад

I think it should be base 16. It would make your language so much easier for computers, as they do base 2, and 16 is 2^4. Plus, Hexadecimal won’t be a thing, it’ll just be numbers.

@melody_florum 6 лет назад

Plus you are going for a more logical approach, I think base 16 would not only be more logical, but cool too!

@BramLastname 5 лет назад

Base 16 is already a thing tho

@mindtrick205 7 лет назад

I'm brand new to your channel, and I love it! Please keep it up!

@ClaudiaCarranza1 7 лет назад

thank you for this. writing system has been a challenge. you make it seem simple! :)

@Win090949 4 года назад

4:03 ao trao aort traort

@iwikal 7 лет назад

It's not a ripoff, your phonemes are different from hangul!

@manolitosanchez 6 лет назад

Hello!! I loved your conlang series!! I was wondering, is there any episode on syntax? Thanks! =)

@levitheentity4000 2 года назад

I freaking loved this video! everything about it is just great, omfg!!!

@PackerFanGamer 7 лет назад

I am working on a language and I think I will use the Oa Writing system! Thank You! +Artifexian

@parthiancapitalist2733 6 лет назад

PackerFan Gamer. Don't copy

@CanaryMapping 6 лет назад

Ancient languages and history He is not copying, is English copying Latin for using its writing system? No. He is telling him, that is good.

@touisbetterthanpi 6 лет назад

What an interesting idea. Through history many languages have taken someone else’s writing system, and just morphed it to suit their needs.

@CanaryMapping 6 лет назад

David Sullivan Like the Polish Writing System

@touisbetterthanpi 6 лет назад

What’s the point of a language if it doesn’t spread? As long as @packerFan gamer doesn’t pass this invention off as his own, but merely uses it, I think it’s great

@Gamesaucer 7 лет назад

I have decided on a base 11 number system for my language. Yay for base primes! I'm still working out the kinks in my writing system, though. It's an abugida, but with consonants tacked onto vowels instead of the other way around. It's also a vertical script. The feeling is dawning on me that I've made things quite complicated for myself. Whoops.

@Gamesaucer 7 лет назад

Nah. I got it all to work out just fine.

@szlanty 7 лет назад

every fraction: 0.1 = 1/11 0.26???????? REPEATING FEACTIONS ALMOST EVRY WHERE

@Gamesaucer 7 лет назад

It's ok though. Fractions can be easily measured not only in elevenths, but also in fifths, tenths and fifty-fifths due to how my language handles these numbers. If people want to say a half they'll just ask for five parts of ten. In other words, my language doesn't use undecimals at all. For really precise numbers smaller units of measurement are used instead, if using fractions is too bothersome. Oh, and repeating fractions isn't actually really a problem. It's only a problem if you want to convert to other number systems.

@szlanty 7 лет назад

Gamesaucer O

@minewarz 7 лет назад

I just like base 2. It's like the most logical and simple thing you can use. But it would be a bit boring, I like your idea.

@user-yt4qc1vm9d 7 лет назад

thank you for your videos ,and i bet u r the the most talented man

@KeKe-bv8qv 5 месяцев назад

This reminds me of the time I tried designing characters after the english speech pathology phoneme chart. But this is cooler because you can see the inner movements and I think it's more intuitive.

@quijybojanklebits8750 4 года назад

I've never used my teet to speak.

@Fralther39 2 года назад

But you just used the word “i’ve”. ‘V’ is created with your lips touching your teet

@Prof_Granpuff 7 лет назад

Phi ratio for the glyphs? Base 12 number system? Will u marry me lmao

@Tomajdafrytrix 7 лет назад

Wow, thats great writing system!

@DaVince21 2 года назад

This is very cleverly devised!

@quinn7894 3 года назад

0:19 That text says "jo no jo ləv mi, ai no jo kar"

@mranima748 Год назад

You know you love me, I know you care

@asliuf 7 лет назад

SO COOL

@Artifexian 7 лет назад

Aw! Cheers, buddy. Glad you enjoyed.

@donmeles7711 6 лет назад

I am writing on my first novel since 2012. It is set on a fictional planet where they calculate in base 12 and write with capital, semicapital and minor letters from right to left and speak a language I'm still developing but already translated a poem I wrote myself. I always thought I was the only person who does such crazy things and tells people about it. Then I found this channel! I feel home

@vitano5681 7 лет назад

please do something on writing systems in general

@user-lr7dt2tb3e 7 лет назад

looks like hangul it has a same base too

@tanyasellars7492 4 года назад

Yes he based the system on hangul

@parthiancapitalist2733 7 лет назад

What does whanaver mean? I saw that word at the end

@pinballconejo Год назад

whenever

@TheAllroth 7 лет назад

It has been amazing to follow the creation of this language! I have one question though: are you coing to do exemples of your language? I.e. written text and/or text read out loud?

@angelo877 2 года назад

I like that Conlang u made I like the writing too

@shmoobalizer 7 лет назад

If your going base 12 then why do you have 13 symbols?

@shmoobalizer 7 лет назад

theFizzyNator I say this because you're not supposed to have a glyph for the base your in, that's why we don't have a symbol for ten

@jasond4131 6 лет назад

You're assuming a system with place value like the Hindu-Arabic numeral system we use. If that were the case, you'd be right, since 12 would be written one-zero. But... What I think is happening here is something closer to the Sino-Japanese system, but in base 12. So, 12 would be written [twelve], thirteen would be [twelve-one], 24 would be [two-twelve-zero], 50 would be [four-twelve-two], and so on. Anyway, it's supposed to be based on the Mayan numeral system, so I guess look that up for more info.

@griffinhaunts5496 6 лет назад

most likely that symbol is zero.

@notpulverman9660 6 лет назад

0 to 11. 12 digits?

@notpulverman9660 6 лет назад

Jason D sooo basically you brought an irrelevant number system that nobody here uses into the picture.... only to then admit you know nothing of the RELEVANT number system that nobody uses.... meaning you have nothing to contribute? Why, bro....

@fzeromaster2 6 лет назад

Why does every sound have an "a or ə" in it at the end?

@gcman201 6 лет назад

fzeromaster2 it’s a linguistic convention to make it obvious which sound you’re articulating, since most consonants can’t really be articulated on their own

@sharperhenz90 7 лет назад

Another great video! loved learning this

@Artifexian 7 лет назад

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed.

@dustov 7 лет назад

Genious effort! I've been hoping to do something like this for ages. A question, though, if a language has intrusive sounds and wants to use this writing system, would those extras be written. For example, I mean would something like, "do it" use the symbols for /du/ /it/ and leave the extra sounds to just come in naturally when spoken? Or would the extra symbol be included /duwit/ in the writing? Another example is assimilation /wud/ /yu/ vs /wudʒu/. or /tempimbəʊliŋ/ (spelt ten pin bowling) would such a language write the letter m to show pronunciation changes like this like we do in impossible instead of inpossible or write it with the letter n but allow a /m/ pronunciation?

@AshtonSnapp 6 лет назад

Personally I would go top to bottom, left to right.

@aeaeeaoiauea 3 года назад

Isn't that exactly what he's doing?

@keithklassen5320 2 года назад

@@aeaeeaoiauea For sentences he is, for individual words he... Well, he also is, but each syllable gets broken down. I think OP is saying to make the words all run in a line instead of back and forth syllables.

@aeaeeaoiauea 2 года назад

@@keithklassen5320 Then it'd just be a featural alphabet instead of a featural syllabary?

@enzogameruksbr3963 3 года назад

Everyone knows that “doobly-doo” means the description.

@lordman5497 5 лет назад

I was creating a writing system, and it works in the same way as this one!

@invernapro 7 лет назад

An idea to "de-fugly-ify" Oa might be to take even more from Hangul's origin and use brush strokes. A lot of what makes East Asian writing (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc) appear so pretty is the specific stroke order combined with actual brushes in traditional writing. That appearance then became common in numerous fonts for printing as well. Maybe utilize a different writing tool, different stroke order, or maybe find another part of the world with similar writing history to work from. But I honestly think if you were to consider the history of how people literally 'wrote' the characters you might be able to make your characters look much more elegant and realistic.

@KerbalHub 2 года назад

I learned hangul and this looks cursed af

@ethanmeid5044 7 лет назад

base 12 is amazing

@kuko-lukas 6 лет назад

yes it is

@barthdry 2 года назад

I love the writing system very much even sometimes reminding of the mouth system it comes from.

@gwho 4 года назад

I too took on the hobby of creating a more logical writing system, and did so via mouth features. my number system was also via radix 12. because maek things divisible by 3 too, of course.

@essennagerry 6 лет назад

First time here: Uhhh, inspired by the Korean one, I was always thinking of creating an Alphabet inspired by it! ~sees alphabet~ OMG SUBSCRIBED Also, you word things interestingly and the sidebar is intriguing. Looking forward to exploring your content!

@parthiancapitalist2733 7 лет назад

If the Schwa and the period are the same, how can you tell the difference?

@jnbaker7422 7 лет назад

The Schwa is a small diamond, but the period is a dot. However the number 0 is also a small diamond, but I also think this is intentional as "0" might just be pronounced with a single schwa.

@BramLastname 5 лет назад

There could be a grammar rule for that

@legalliberal3413 7 лет назад

Yay you're back!

@jamieculkin 7 лет назад

Beautiful! Oa is elegant to me.

@DracarmenWinterspring 7 лет назад

It looks fairly easily distinguishable in this sort of typed form (and I don't think it's ugly), but have you thought about how handwriting would look in this system? As it looks now, it looks too angular and requiring strokes from very different angles to write out, which would It would make writing it by hand fairly slow. If whatever culture you're ascribing it to is at a point in its history where the majority of the population can read and write, some faster way of writing will have developed which might be a lot less orderly.

@completeepicness5070 6 лет назад

I agree. When we all write English, how many of us write "r"s with the little pointy thing, or just write it in one stroke. "E"s: Do any of you write it like a backwards three? "n" with the pointys? Same for "p", "u" and "b"? See?

@tfan2222 Год назад

@@completeepicness5070 I know almost no one who writes like that.

@ashookkookie-3585 7 лет назад

4:05 it looks alittle bit Korean XD

@NeetoryuKunRHMN 6 лет назад

it's based around that idea.

@parthiancapitalist2733 6 лет назад

AShookKookie - 아숰쿠키 tru

@notpulverman9660 6 лет назад

Neetoryu Kun It's not based on it. It just takes some inspiration from it, since both are attempts to make a highly simplified and logical writing system.

@mmmmmmok5292 6 лет назад

Ikr!

@koolkdny 5 лет назад

that’s the point

@travisoke4683 7 лет назад

That's cool! Can't wait to see more on it. The only thing would be writing it all out. It wouldn't be as crisp as its shown in the video.

@Artifexian 7 лет назад

Cursive version is on it's way.

@iavv334 7 лет назад

Oh man, your writing system is so much more beautiful than anything I've tried to make. Do you have any tips on how to make a good conscript?

@Luka1180 7 лет назад

I am studying linguistics too :)

@AtariGamerProject 7 лет назад

But isn't learning from internet the same thing as studying?

@Luka1180 7 лет назад

Sávio SG Exactly, it is. If you are studying things on the internet you are still studying @Author Cat Studios-toogletoggleOfTheCats Which is what I'm currently doing as well. Though I do plan on getting a PhD in linguistics at a university :) I wish I could get ones in all other kinds of sciences though, but it would take too many years. I might as well learn other sciences on the side. It shouldn't be impossible to get to PhD level knowledge with other subjects on my own once I properly know what I'm studying...

@AtariGamerProject 7 лет назад

So, we are 3 :D. But I am not planning to get a PhD.

@Chantwizzle 6 лет назад

Looks like Hangul. But I mean, this is basically how Hangul was invented.

@notpulverman9660 6 лет назад

Wrong.

@gayvideos3808 5 лет назад

He literally said he was inspired by Hangeul

@servantofaeie1569 4 года назад

Chantal Said nope, Hangul was taken from 'Phags-pa

@servantofaeie1569 4 года назад

@@shkrmkr no, i am right.

@dylonix 7 лет назад

I also came out with my own writing system! It's a combination of the English alphabets, the Mandarin and Bahasa grammar, writing forms like Arabian, and it sounds like Thai. Hahahaha. So cool that you also came out with your won writing system too!

@pacmanfan1214 7 лет назад

I've been waiting for a new video, saw this on the conlang subreddit and found out it was uploaded 3 days ago, and was like "but I swear I just checked his channel yesterday o.O" xD

@FooBarBash 7 лет назад

So you've redone Hangul :'). It looks nice though.

@notpulverman9660 6 лет назад

This is better than Hangul.

@AnCS. 7 лет назад

Am I the only one who thought he'd just messed with some Hangul?

@hikhuphoenix4107 7 лет назад

He stated the similarity. So, I don't believe so.

@TaylorFisher-oj6qp 6 лет назад

Sean Freeman few of the "characters" or whatever remind me of hangul

@kosukemiura1226 6 лет назад

The letter for K is almost the same

@shans2408 6 лет назад

It is exactly Hangul. :P He only replaced the shapes, kind of. Right from featural part to making the blocks. Can't blame him though, Hangul is that awesome. Even I was trying to "invent" a hangul inspired syllabary for Hindi.

@senesterium 5 лет назад

You're the only one stupid enough to say this about something he OPENLY claimed.

@MrPlayer12344 5 лет назад

4:59 : and we're still waiting two years later

@fabiannymands3704 7 лет назад

I have a little question: In your older videos you had an intro where you were writing "Artifexian" in Ogham letters, but why did you use the bubbles instead of lines to write the vocals?