The closed circle at top means closed/front. So a simple example is the vowel sound /i/ : Hence, B versus P.Īs for vowels, the circles on or spaced within the lines, shows the Closed to the Open condition of the mouth while the position on the line represents the position of the tongue (Front to Back). That dot denotes a voiced version of the sound. We see that the only difference is the dot in the middle of the top glyph. The next part of the character is the voiced designator. As this happens in the columns of the IPA table, the bottom glyph flips to the side where the line occurs. It should be noted that the Top glyph includes the line and will vary as to what side the line appears. The top glyph represent the Columns of the IPA table while the bottom glyph represent the Rows of the IPA table. So for consonants, each script character has a top Glyph and a bottom Glyph. Each component is designed to represent the sounds associated with the International IPA table and accompanying vowel table. The script has two components: Consonants and Vowels. Yes, I use the script for my Conlang and obviously that is the extent to which the script will likely be used, but the script was designed on purpose to be universal to all languages (or at least the vast majority). How does the Verbum Conlang integrate with your conscript Verbum Ortho?Īlthough the script was designed in association with my Conlang, in reality they are not related. Truth is, once the script was simplified, its appeal to me became much higher. Front there, a lot of the character complexity in the design was removed because it prevented the script from being read legibly at smaller font sizes. So I moved it back to a left to right orientation so that it would work well with a keyboard font.

But this was for aesthetic reasons and I wanted the script to be functional.

I can say that the script has gone through at least 5 iterations, starting with a more unique design that placed the characters longitudinally, like Chinese or Mongolian. I try to spend 2-4 hours a week on the Verbum Conlang and associated script. The amount of time varies depending on real world life issues. How much time in general or per week have you spent on your universal script? Its not particularly original and might be seen as a cop-out, but that’s likely due to my technical nature. Funny, coming from someone who is very interested in and enjoys writing, and in the end, I think it was the writing that really hooked me into conlanging. And once I found the reddit community, I decided to get serious about conlanging. So I didn’t develop the in-depth knowledge of language like many other conlangers. I was probably unfamiliar with the community because I never enjoyed or did well in English class at school. Even though I had the Klingon-English Dictionary and played with language creation, I actually didn’t know the term conlanging until I joined Reddit about 5 years ago. I was into Star Trek, D&D and other Fantasy/SciFi endeavors during my youth, including world-building and creating coding systems. It was by accident more than anything else. Welcome to Conscript Friday! Every week we try to interview a conlanger about their innovative script. Today we feature Mark Wells, the creator of Verbum Ortho, an interesting conscript based on the IPA.

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