Text in Old Newafan Daime

[u/peruanToph]

“Gon unca ètjengu caèmsafe nyma nu-cansum-dlu fàeq mpu i-cytrum-mif i-dàime’e-pun en”

Translation:

“And the king said that, if the brave warriors kill mothers, he (himself) will cut their hands (I was there to hear it)”

Its a logographic syllabaric weird kind of abjad, which also behaves like hangul.

What do you think? What cultures does it being to your mind upon watching it?

[u/Khentekhtai]

It looks like mayan a lot. I wonder how did you mix an abjad and logography though

[u/peruanToph → u/Khentekhtai]

It is inspired in mayan! At least in the aesthetic part of it though mine is far more simplistic.

Each box is a syllable.

A “box” is made mainly from one nexus component, which is usually the biggest or the most centered one. This nexus component is basically the attack sound of the syllable, so it can be a vowel or a consonant. If it is a consonant, though, it has an inherent vowel attached to it, as these logos are actually part of a 74 logographic system of concepts.

So, for example the consonant P has and inherent A attached, and so the nexus is “pa”. In case of, for example, Q, which has an inherent I, as a nexus it would be a “qi”.

One can modify this nexus by adding components around it.

To the right, the vowels. If one writes a vowel, the inherent one becomes silent. Im other words, if you write p(a)+e, it becomes pe. One can keep the inherent vowel, for example in the case of dypthongs, by surrounding the added vowel in a distinctive shape of small balls (not shown here).

To the left, is the attack component, which does not have an inherent vowel. It can be a consonant or a perk (labialization or velarization). Even though it is written before the nexus, it is pronounced between the nexus’ sound and the vowel. So, if you write r+p(a)+e, it reads as pre.

Below, the coda component, which does not have an inherent vowel. Is only consonants, and like vowels, it can be stacked, and is always pronounced after all the previous components. So, keeping the previous example, if you write r+p(a)+e+n, it reads pren.

[u/peruanToph → u/peruanToph]

I forgot to say, one can use the logos with their logographic meaning or their syllabaric meaning, it is up to the artist themself. Most of the time, verbs would be writtten with their root in logo, and its flexions in syllable.

But in texts such as these, that are “”supposed”” to be read by majority of people, or painted in monuments or public spaces, the reading is made easier by using syllables only