The Oa Writing System

So I decided to come up with a writing system.

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HANGUL!

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Thank you all so much for watching…Edgar out!

[junjunjamore]

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

[Lucy-ngcw]

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

[isaacthedestroyerofstuped]

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

[melody_florum]

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

[joescott]

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

[foxyjambread]

Artifexian: *bases his writing system on Hangul*

Me, who can somewhat read Hangul: *tries to pronounce 'mng'*

[omfgmouse]

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...

[earfolds]

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.

[smuecke]

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.

[AlgyCuber]

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

[robingaming]

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.

[gregli]

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

[THPRSN]

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.

[OmegaTaishu]

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

[TheAntiGravityMaster]

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

[olafvanderveen]

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

[toyoung_blue]

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

[AtOutoftheBlue]

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!

[notoriouswhitemoth]

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.

[ryanzarmbinski]

When are you getting your unicode block?