October 2023 – Shivallon's Conlanging Space

A New Family Tree (Part 3): Deriving Quriil

October 28, 2023 Shivallon Comments 0 Comment

I have been watching a lot of Q’s Greenland recently and hearing her speak Kalaallisut has inspired me to finally sit down and work on my Quriil sound changes. (Also, I was sick for more than a week, and while that sucked, it gave me a lot of time to think about my conlangs again.) I’ve also decided to deviate a little bit from my original plans for the phoneme inventory. In particular, I will throw out the aspirate consonants,…

An attempt at stylizing Ryka: The “Curvy Ryka” script

October 24, 2023 Shivallon Comments 0 Comment

While I really love the general structure of my Ryka script and how it works, the characters look unpolished and still quite “proto-like”. There is no common aesthetic to most of the consonant glyphs, and many still closely resemble the pictograms they are based on. When writing a sentence, the result often looks a little messy, and some combinations of characters and diacritics are really hard to write due to the diverse shapes. Most natural scripts have evolved into a…