Amazing. This looks so elegant and beautiful.
May I ask with what program you created it?
May I ask with what program you created it?
Uyendur Cursive Script
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Explanation of how to write this script
This public article was written by [Deactivated User], and last updated on 17 Mar 2017, 14:04.
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Note that this article requires your browser to support ligatures. Test: bb If you see two circles joined with an underbar then ligatures are functioning for you. If you see two disconnected circles, then you won't be able to read this article properly. Preface
The Uyendur script exists in three distinct forms: the classical hand, the official hand, and the common hand. Only the common hand is cursive. The classical hand (uienduru) is the printed form on which the cursive form is based, while the official hand (uienduru) is a special form only used for official government documents to make forgery more difficult. This article is about the common/cursive hand (uienduru).
Basics
The script comprises a total of 22 letters:
| Basic Glyphs | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a a | w ĕ | m m | s t (s) | u u / w | b b | r r | g g | G ġ | x x / * | i i / y | |||||
| k k | l l | e e | h ng | B ḅ | p p | t t | D ḍ | o o | d d | n n | |||||
As you can see, u is used both for /u/ and /w/, while i is used both for /i/ and /j/. x normally represents /χ/, but also is used to modify other vowel letters:
Combined with a it represents ă, with u or i it represents ĭ (the difference in spelling being purely etymological), and with o it represents ŏ.
Joining letters
The letters are generally connected by a horizontal line that runs along the writing line. Sometimes this line may rise slightly to join properly to the next letter, but it is generally intuitive:
u u + t t → ut ut
u u + d d → ud ud
u u + a a → ua wa
One exception is the letter l, which combines somewhat irregularly with high letters, e.g.:
l l + a a → la la
l l + o o → lo lo
When k appears medially or finally, it takes a unique form:
u u + k k → uk uk
There is also a unique form for the double medial k:
u u + k k + k k → ukk ukk
When m appears non-finally, it takes on a slightly altered form:
u u + m m + u u → umu umu
but
u u + m m → um um
The letters r G o d do not connect to the following letter:
r r + u u → ru ru
The letters s G B do not connect to the previous letter:
u u + s s → us us
(note that this means that the letter G never connects to other letters)
The letters u b r x i t d have subscript forms that attach to the letters i, B, and medial k:
i i + u u → iu yu
i i + b b → ib ib
i i + r r → ir ir
i i + x x → ix ix / ĭ / iy / yi
i i + i i → ii yi
i i + t t → it it
i i + d d → id id
The r subscript (but no others) attaches to r:
r r + r r → rr rr
If the following letter has no descender, it will appear above the subscript:
barixm barĭm
If it has a descender, it will appear after it:
barixr barĭr
The three letters above, i, B, and medial k, curve upward to join to the letters w, m, l, e, h, p, and D:
uiwndur Uyĕndur
The letters a and n have special descending forms for connecting with the letters a, n, and d:
nandut Nandut
This also occurs with the letters b and k, e.g. ab ab, ak ak.
As mentioned above, the vowel æ is written as the sequence ‹ax›. The descending form of a is used when writing /æ/, differentiating it from the sequence /aχ/, which does not use it:
xaGaxnkix xaġănkĭ "(if) I have stretched" (uses a-x)
ua-xitil wa xitil "with a rock" (uses a-x)
Similarly, when either of these two letters are followed by the letter m, their ascenders merge:
a a + m m → am am
Spaces generally only separate larger phrases, thus the native spacing does not always match the Romanization, e.g.:
hukkwr atumutlikul
Ngukkĕr atumut likul.
"The old man has left."
Spelling
Spelling generally matches the pronunciation, but there are several irregularities:
The question particle e is spelled ei
Sequences of /i/ and /j/, and especially /u/ and /w/ often replace the second letter with x to avoid a sequence of two identical letters. However, the relativizer/complementizer ĭ is generally always written ii.
Some conjugations of the root ux wu- "to run" require a sequence of two u u letters followed by x x. Typically, one of the two u letters is dropped, e.g. uxm wĭm is typical, rather than the expected uxxm.
As mentioned above, the sound ĭ may be spelled either ix or ux. The difference is purely etymological.
Similarly, both t and s represent the sound /t/, and the choice between them is etymological. The phoneme /s/, for which the letter s stood, is preserved only in a far eastern dialect.
I think that covers everything.
Some really minor aesthetic things:
The stick on the k is moved up slightly when it follows certain letters:
Compare: dk - ok
The ascender on m is lengthened when it follows ĕ:
Compare: um - wm ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
Comments
@[Deactivated User] @[Deactivated User] Thank you. It definitely took a long time to make this font, but ever since I designed the cursive version of this script, I wanted someday to make a font of it. It was originally hand-drawn and scanned, and I forget the exact process now but I cleaned it up and everything in Photoshop and Illustrator. I then dumped everything into my font program. The average letter has around five contextual forms, though k has 13, because it sometimes need to raise the stick, sometimes becomes a subscript, and has a double ligature.
I was a beginner at OpenType when I started this, but my font program, High-Logic FontCreator Pro, has a fairly user-friendly OpenType editor (that's one of the reasons I bought it). I messed around in that until eventually I managed to get it working. The coding is kind of a mess, and there are a couple bugs in the coding I couldn't figure out, so instead I just made after the fact fixes for. Not ideal, but it works.
I was a beginner at OpenType when I started this, but my font program, High-Logic FontCreator Pro, has a fairly user-friendly OpenType editor (that's one of the reasons I bought it). I messed around in that until eventually I managed to get it working. The coding is kind of a mess, and there are a couple bugs in the coding I couldn't figure out, so instead I just made after the fact fixes for. Not ideal, but it works.
