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reijnders · 1 year

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Some stuff on Bajoran writing, along with a sneak peek of the grammar I'll be posting on Friday!

In my own lore for DS9, Bajorans were practically in the middle of sorting out a syllabary for themselves when the Cardassians came in and messed everything up, so the current syllabary is patched together from collective memory, hidden documents(clay tablets), and filled in partially with logograms. Since I wanted it to feel like they were still working on recovering from the Occupation, some sounds aren't represented at all yet, while others are substituted with logograms.

Under the cut is a small vocab list, and a refresher on the basic IPA and phonetic rules of the language.

As stated before, Bajoran glyphs are originally written with a wooden stylus, a diagonal straight edge on one end, and a curved C shape on the other. I kept these shapes in mind when designing each glyph, along with what sounds I wanted to be more common to dictate which symbols may have been lost.

#ds9 #conlang #star trek #deep space nine #bajoran #my canon #WHEW #workin hard and simultaneously hardly workin #but im scheduling this at 1 am and ive been typing up the grammar tryna cram it into this post #but i couldnt! i write it out by hand to brainstorm first #and final draft gets computerized so i typed up the verb stuff #and then started seeing status effects instantly #i must go to bed. it is imperative!

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