The Oa Writing System
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8 жыл бұрынSo I decided to come up with a writing system.
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Thank you all so much for watching…Edgar out!
@junjunjamore7735 6 жыл бұрын
Artifexian: "It is based on Hangul (Korean writing)!" Comments: "Am I the only who noticed he copied Korean?"
@MisterSketch4 6 жыл бұрын
Child Of The Smokeless Fire that was obvious, and he said that himself in the video!
@64156ful 6 жыл бұрын
Exactly why op is making fun of the comments saying it looks like Korean
@Chiro-7548 5 жыл бұрын
Many Koreans confuse Korean Language and Korean Writing(Hangul).
@Kro368 5 жыл бұрын
Haha, as someone learning Korean(and already knowing Hangul) YES I did!! It's an excellent idea I think!!XD
@kuutti256 5 жыл бұрын
i also noticed... so get *nae-nae'd*
@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676 6 жыл бұрын
10 is folly 12 is jolly 60 is... OH MY GOLLY
@cyndie26 6 жыл бұрын
Isaac The Destroyer of Stuped Yes, but one may need to come up with 60 numerals, although the Babylonians seemed to have taken care of that.
@paradoxo9111 6 жыл бұрын
I think that since Artifexian said his numbering system would be inspired on the Mayan system, he probably wouldn't need to invent so many symbols if he decided to use a base-60 system.
@MuzikBike 6 жыл бұрын
210 is godly
@Alice-gr1kb 5 жыл бұрын
Isaac The Destroyer of Stuped Babylon...
@tibethatguy 5 жыл бұрын
Link: GOLLY
@Lucy-ng7cw 8 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a written version of Oa. Especially the cursive
@Artifexian 8 жыл бұрын
Some artifexian viewers are working on this as we speak. Very exciting times.
@entropyzero5588 5 жыл бұрын
Oa block in Unicode coming… when? :D
@mat2468xk 5 жыл бұрын
Does a cursive version of Korean (and Chinese and Japanese) even exist, though?
@TheInterestingInformer 5 жыл бұрын
@@mat2468xk YUP! That what makes it so confusing sometimes to learn for me...
@nuklearboysymbiote 5 жыл бұрын
@@mat2468xk yes
@joescott 8 жыл бұрын
I've put a lot of work into some of my videos, but I've never created an entire writing system. Damn.
@AvrahamYairStern 3 жыл бұрын
Never expected Joe to be here
@TerribleTonyShow 3 жыл бұрын
ayo joe scott poggers?
@ufcasual 3 жыл бұрын
yet
@KerbalHub 2 жыл бұрын
Hi joe
@hulick6910 Жыл бұрын
Hmm, verified?
@foxyjambread3826 3 жыл бұрын
Artifexian: *bases his writing system on Hangul* Me, who can somewhat read Hangul: *tries to pronounce 'mng'*
@L1M.L4M 2 жыл бұрын
Is that referring to the AO thing
@JunoItaliano Жыл бұрын
As a Korean, I was really confused by the thumbnail of the video, and some of these letters. They look exactly like 한글
@aswalchitra Жыл бұрын
@@JunoItaliano Yea that the letters in the thumbnail look like ㄱㅁㅈstashed upon each other
@JunoItaliano Жыл бұрын
@@aswalchitra ikr!
@illusions7457 Жыл бұрын
Me trying to pronounce ujmngju be like be like: AAAAAJAJWJAJAAJAJAJAJAIAIAIAIIAIAIAIAIAIAIIAIAIAIAIAIAAAAAAAAAIAIAAAA8AAA8AAAIAAA9AA9AOASAAA9AAA9AAAA9A9AAA9AAA8AIAIAIAAAAAAAAAÑALAALLSKWKSKKASAAÑAÑÑÑAÑÑÑÑAÑAAÑAÑAÑAÑAÑÑAÑAÑAÑAAAAAAASSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGNGNGNNGNGNGNGNNGGSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA9AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÑAAAAOAAAÑAAAOAÑAAAOAAÑAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWHKMG 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38
@melody_florum 7 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling that if this became a writing system in a society, the Schwa would evolve into a dot if this was handwritten
@steller7515 6 жыл бұрын
Or an open diamond.
@alicewyan 6 жыл бұрын
or possibly just dropped as it gets dropped from speech
@samizayed1126 2 жыл бұрын
similar to Arabic, ig
@omfgmouse 8 жыл бұрын
I think your schwa would be better as an open diamond ◇ rather than a filled diamond ◆ Mainly because if people were writing this with a pen, a ◇ would be much easier to write than a ◆, which could easily turn into a simple dot. Other than that, cool! I'm kind of tempted to try out this system of yours except with English sounds...
@arturmizuno 8 жыл бұрын
each writing system is adapted to its environment, latin on stone, some writings on clay or bees wax (tablets) were more of a line system ( similar to 1337). Lindybeige has a video on it. so I suppose this system would use nanquim (china ink) to write, instead of convencional pens (I guess)
@pacmanfan1214 8 жыл бұрын
◆ would be way easier to write with a fountain pen.
@3seven5seven1nine9 8 жыл бұрын
In which case with nanquim I can easily see over time the language evolving to just use a • rather than a ♦
@DominoPivot 8 жыл бұрын
I can see the open diamond evolving into a circle with repeated casual handwriting, which would be confusing. I'd go for the dot too, but it would make sense for it to be a diamond if people who wrote this used a brush or quill to write. After all, calligraphy is also a form of art. And perhaps this alphabet is used by a computer-savvy society, who knows :)
@lucillefrancois150 7 жыл бұрын
Keiji Ikari It is based on English sounds.
@earfolds 8 жыл бұрын
Now I'm really, really excited. This is like a hyper-logical Hangul, and the dozenal number system is a very good choice. The diamond-shaped /ə/ is very Arabic, too.
@earfolds 8 жыл бұрын
I have a suggestion for the number system; it may be interesting to make 11 resemble 1, 10 resemble 2, 9 resemble 3, and so on. Just a little nod towards how much more, or how much less, than a round 12 the digit is. I've seen it in some dozenal number systems, and I think it might be an interesting idea for your language.
@jnbaker7422 7 жыл бұрын
Ted Logan For some reson, wrriting in base tweleve with arabic numerals confuses me. It's like writing in english with the Phonecian alphabet. It works, to an extent, but not quite. Therefore my advice to you is to try and make your symbols look as dissimilar to arabice numerals as possible in order to avoid this confusion.
@parthiancapitalist2733 6 жыл бұрын
I rate his language 6/8 so far. I mean any well thought out language would get 7/8, but his isn't all that great. I mean it still is logical and awesome, but not as appealing as _most_ natural languages, though it may get better as he makes more grammar. 8/8 would be totally natural- basically the conlanger starts with a 200000 year old simple as hell oral language, then creates many dialect continuum so as the species explores most of the world, then drives proto languages, then languages. That would be 8/8
@karlpoppins 4 жыл бұрын
@@parthiancapitalist2733 Not all conlangs have to be natlangs.
@samizayed1126 2 жыл бұрын
@@karlpoppins Some ppl r natlang supremacists
@smuecke 8 жыл бұрын
In order to make your writing system a bit more "oranic-looking" like Hangul, you might want to think about what the people that would speak and write your language might be using as a medium (carve the glyphs on stone, write on paper using a brush, a quill etc.) and start to "erode" the glyphs like do when handwriting - simulate the natural development of your writing system to smooth out those pointy edges etc.
@rowanjoy419 3 жыл бұрын
yes, don't forget that hangul was create for just one human. not like others that form naturally. i'm not saying that koreans don't write naturally, it's just that looks very strict.
@AlgyCuber 4 жыл бұрын
2016 artifexian : wants oa to use base twelve 2019 artifexian : changes to base dozen four
@brunnomenxa 3 жыл бұрын
And everything remains changeable.
@oleksiiammo7832 Жыл бұрын
base twensy four
@jan-pi-ala-suli Жыл бұрын
CALL IT DOZE- oh wait that is base 6. huh. nevermind the screaming then.
@TheDankBoi69 7 ай бұрын
yes@@oleksiiammo7832
@robingaming3391 8 жыл бұрын
I tried to make three alphabets, two abugidas, an abjad, a featural alphabet and a logographic system, only to make my world seem realistic, and also to make some analogs to real life countries. My mind stopped working when I tried to do my featural alphabet though. I feel dizzy when I see it.
@Misitan 2 жыл бұрын
I made my own writing system too, based on lip syncs and featural alphabets, It shows the whole process, example is M, first it's how it's mouth sync is, then how it is pronounced after that, each letter can technically become a vowel or consonant, it's just how it's pronounced, does this language work, I don't think so, I might have the same failure as you
@TheAntiGravityMaster 8 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one that's going to point out that Oa is the Green Lantern planet?
@dormic123 8 жыл бұрын
What has someone stolen the name already!?!?! /sarcasm
@SciFiFan2012 8 жыл бұрын
It's been destroyed so I guess it's ok lol
@dulledmemory4776 7 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure celestial body names have a copyright.
@josephteller9715 7 жыл бұрын
Imaginary worlds within the context of a work of fiction have the same copyright as the work itself and the names of fictional characters within the work so long as it can be proved the original source of the name and it is being used in a similar or derivative manner. This is why Barsoom remains the copyright property of the Burroughs Estate via the John Carter of Mars novel series. So, new name needed.
@TaiFerret 6 жыл бұрын
Joseph Teller Copyright is monopoly, not property.
@gregli9821 4 жыл бұрын
5:00 “And yes, it will be in base 12.” *4 years later* numbering system: in base 16
@7MinutozRapsLetras Жыл бұрын
lol
@OmegaTaishu 6 жыл бұрын
Hey, Artifexian. It's been over an year now, how's your language going?
@ryuko4478 5 жыл бұрын
He isn't working on it anymore, he just used it as an example for his early conlanging videos
@ghsk5559 5 жыл бұрын
I was creating a language. That language has two ways for write: Latin Alphabet (with diacritics) and Hangul (using old hangul characters)
@Alice-gr1kb 5 жыл бұрын
Check in
@masynbeene5485 3 жыл бұрын
He is still working on it sometimes.
@TH3P3RS0N42 8 жыл бұрын
My main issue is that it takes a lot of different glyphs to type it out on a computer with all the scaling, which is an important consideration in this day and age. Maybe if you didn't scale it like Hangul's in their sylable blocks, it would be simpler. There's also the issue of dyslexics mixing up a lot of the letters from all the symmetry. This isn't a terrible writing system or anything, but it definitely has room for improvement.
@Artifexian 8 жыл бұрын
Agreed. It is by no means perfect. Perfect takes time and sometime the help of a awesome audience base. :)
@TH3P3RS0N42 8 жыл бұрын
And sorry if I came of overly critical. My goal was to bring up some issues that probably don't come up much, not to pointlessly bash your script.
@SomeBritishGal1 8 жыл бұрын
+Artifexian The Koreans do well enough typing Hangul, just go onto Google Translate and select Korean and keyboard, not really an issue when it's already been done.
@vjorp5332 8 жыл бұрын
It's actually impossible to make that into a fonr :/
@livedandletdie 8 жыл бұрын
Not really. It's just slightly more complicated.
@KerbalHub 2 жыл бұрын
I learned hangul and this looks cursed af
@TheWolfboy180 7 жыл бұрын
why does he sound so sensual at 1:45
@devonoknabo2582 4 жыл бұрын
Más papacito más más más Quierooooo esooooooooo
@chassepot3541 4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a minecraft villager
@aldobernaltvbernal8745 4 жыл бұрын
@@devonoknabo2582 as a native spanish speaker that hurts to read.
@hlaweardlaighonaghidau6543 4 жыл бұрын
Fuck of now I can't unhear it
@abdulmuhaimin9780 8 жыл бұрын
go base twelve!
@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX 8 жыл бұрын
Go hexadecimal!
@jeromej.1992 8 жыл бұрын
base 12 for the win!
@brennanlong464 8 жыл бұрын
Octal is the master race!
@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX 8 жыл бұрын
Octal is cool too
@jacksouthgate4354 8 жыл бұрын
HEX HEX Hex! Jk, I'll always love dozenal
@user-xd4fw5wy6m 4 жыл бұрын
You're making me extremely excited to see the rest of the series
@GothicWiccan61 6 жыл бұрын
I just so happened to stumble across your channel and fell absolutely in love!! I created my own writing system when I was a teen so watching this was a complete joy, new subscriber :)
@olafvanderveen629 7 жыл бұрын
I thought your system was very elegant. I also just learned Hangul, so this was nice and smooth :)
@toyoung_blue 7 жыл бұрын
As a linguistics lover and a Korean I found your Oa really interesting. :O Please keep going!
@Dog-eg8lc 8 жыл бұрын
Great work on this Edgar!
@JayFolipurba 8 жыл бұрын
Ermahgerd, I completely forgot about this channel. Glad you're back! I really like the writing system, it's so logical
@notoriouswhitemoth 8 жыл бұрын
There's nothing wrong with copying Hangul - do what works! Personally, I'm fond of Japanese orthography, with complicated semantic letters indicating meaning and simpler phonetic letters describing the grammar. It's a system I'd like to use as a frame of reference if I ever actually get around to working on a conlang.
@Artifexian 8 жыл бұрын
Those kana smiley faces though...love em :)
@notmik3 Жыл бұрын
@@Artifexian シ
@AtOutoftheBlue 7 жыл бұрын
For those of you who don't know what Hangeul is, it's the alphabet of the Korean language (also known as Chosungul in North Korea). It's considered to be rather beautiful and highly logical, with the "y" sound (like in "ya") being represented by an added stroke to the vowel (an example being "ㅏ", which makes an "a" sound, becoming "ㅑ", which makes a "ya" sound.) They also generally use a line to indicate when a consonant is aspirated, like when "ㄷ", which makes a "d" sound, becomes "ㅌ", which makes a "t" sound. It's really beautiful and crazy easy to learn, and I would definitely suggest learning it, and Korean as a whole. 파이팅, and good learning!
@yongamer 6 жыл бұрын
Channels like this is worthed getting bell notification on.
@Reofive 8 жыл бұрын
I absolutely LOVE it!! Great job!!
@gamefan1353 7 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to learn me some Oa in the future ^^
@enzogamerukbr 3 жыл бұрын
Everyone knows that “doobly-doo” means the description.
@mindtrick205 7 жыл бұрын
I'm brand new to your channel, and I love it! Please keep it up!
@lachlan7181 8 жыл бұрын
Grats on your increasing popularity Artifexian! It's crazy seeing your subscriber count going up so fast
@ryanzarmbinski7446 8 жыл бұрын
When are you getting your unicode block?
@Julio974 8 жыл бұрын
I got the same idea while looking the video !
@illumnigd8649 6 жыл бұрын
im gonna make it bitch
@illumnigd8649 6 жыл бұрын
in a font
@kuko-lukas 6 жыл бұрын
now or never
@kebedezewdie8743 6 жыл бұрын
Either use hangul or Romanize.
@quijybojanklebits8750 4 жыл бұрын
I've never used my teet to speak.
@Fralther39 3 жыл бұрын
But you just used the word “i’ve”. ‘V’ is created with your lips touching your teet
@Alanzice 8 жыл бұрын
Really beatiful writing system, Edgar! Kudos!
@Artifexian 8 жыл бұрын
Ah, now...it's fugly as hell and I'll not here otherwise. :P
@user-yt4qc1vm9d 7 жыл бұрын
thank you for your videos ,and i bet u r the the most talented man
@marbleswan6664 5 жыл бұрын
0:45 Hey! That could be a language, you draw those lines for the start of the sound, then the end of the sound, and the reader infers on the in between part. Sort of like what you did, but you can write whole words by showing change over time
@iwikal 8 жыл бұрын
It's not a ripoff, your phonemes are different from hangul!
@Asodym 4 жыл бұрын
I love your use of phi, it is my absolute favorite number of all time. thank you.
@gemthepolyglot3258 Жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh, this is simple, but brilliant! I love the inspiration from how the mouth moves to create the glyphs.
@SuperAkiraNakamura 7 жыл бұрын
yup,oa is just like advanced hangul
@iustinianconstantinescu5498 7 жыл бұрын
0:26 Veritasium T-shirt!
@levitheentity4000 3 жыл бұрын
I freaking loved this video! everything about it is just great, omfg!!!
@TheNerd484 8 жыл бұрын
I found this a while ago and thought you might like it. His entire blog is great.
@civilixxxx8914 6 жыл бұрын
Despite some time passed from creation of this script, I'll try to adopt it for Chinese.
@lyonnw7691 8 жыл бұрын
This is really interesting and I am really excited to see that there are other people trying to invent their own writing systems and languages as well! I've taught myself Hangul, Cyrillic, Hiragana, Katakana, about 150++ Kanji and Filipino's Baybayin. I already invented a writing system derived from Baybayin but I modified it to suit the Malay pronunciation and other Nusantara languages specifically languages in the Northern Borneo like Rungus and Dusun. As for now, I am the only one who can write and read it proficiently. I don't know how to publish it or anything. I showed it to my friends and they were like, your writing system is too complicated T..T And I was like, compared to Thai or Arabic, my writing system is far more simpler T..T
@user-tc3cd5mg1r 2 жыл бұрын
Hello, I'm a Syrian Arab, I'm thinking about sending a message via messenger to send me a picture of your writing system
@lyonnw7691 2 жыл бұрын
@@user-tc3cd5mg1r sure
@lyonnw7691 2 жыл бұрын
@@user-tc3cd5mg1r on which platform you want to have a chat?
@user-tc3cd5mg1r 2 жыл бұрын
@@lyonnw7691 Yes of Corse
@lyonnw7691 2 жыл бұрын
@@user-tc3cd5mg1r في اي تطبيق تريدني ان ارسال لك my writing system؟ لانني لا استخدم الفيسبوك. Maybe via Instagram or Telegram?
@sharperhenz90 8 жыл бұрын
Another great video! loved learning this
@Artifexian 8 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed.
@wanderingrandomer 8 жыл бұрын
Dude, that's really clever! There's a brilliant logic behind it that I really love! It kind of reminds me of the alphabet I worked on for my conlang. Stops had the most jagged letters, through to vowels which had the most fluid letters, and voiced consonants had a mark added onto their voiceless counterparts. I also made a separate letter for digraphs, which blend together elements from their constituent consonants.
@quinn7894 3 жыл бұрын
0:19 That text says "jo no jo ləv mi, ai no jo kar"
@mranima748 2 жыл бұрын
You know you love me, I know you care
@Win090949 4 жыл бұрын
4:03 ao trao aort traort
@DaVince21 3 жыл бұрын
This is very cleverly devised!
@legalliberal3413 8 жыл бұрын
Yay you're back!
@PelletProject 8 жыл бұрын
This is really neat, and I definitely saw the parallel to Hangul. Now, I'm curious to see if there is a way to write this language in calligraphy, or at least in some form of cursive. A lot of languages are known for having this feature, so would this be possible in Oa?
@user-lr7dt2tb3e 7 жыл бұрын
looks like hangul it has a same base too
@tanyasellars7492 4 жыл бұрын
Yes he based the system on hangul
@ClaudiaCarranza1 8 жыл бұрын
thank you for this. writing system has been a challenge. you make it seem simple! :)
@adamkrist-real 6 жыл бұрын
4:59 : and we're still waiting two years later
@Prof_Granpuff 8 жыл бұрын
Phi ratio for the glyphs? Base 12 number system? Will u marry me lmao
@CBusschaert 8 жыл бұрын
My only question is... would it be natural for a people to create a writing system based on anatomy? I mean, to create a language after some advances in medicine could be done, okay, but to advance in medicine, you need science and scientists, and for them to work efficiently, you need them to be able to write their research papers, right? Don't get me wrong, this system works, as long as there has been other written languages before it, I simply wouldn't believe a "primitive" people (understand a 3000-BC-like people who just started counting their sheeps) could come up with it. Since you start your videos with "let's world build", I assume there is some context, but since you don't give one, I'm just lost in assuming every scenario possible :p
@nicholasw996 8 жыл бұрын
Hangul is exactly that. A writing system devised based on anatomy to bring science and literature to the masses.
@CBusschaert 8 жыл бұрын
***** oh it's based on anatomy? I guess I gotta look up some history stresspoints...
@tuxcup 8 жыл бұрын
Korean immediately pops into my mind. Check out Xidnaf's video (Just be sure to mute the intro).
@user-lw8qy8kj7c 8 жыл бұрын
Xidnaf's video on Hangul explains it really well
@CBusschaert 8 жыл бұрын
DP Trumann Yeah I just saw it
@5amisntlate 7 жыл бұрын
when i saw your letters in the creating a writing system video i was like they remind me of hangeul... glad to see im not crazy lol and i always appreciate people who also nerd out about how awesome hangeul is lol
@DanTheCaptain 7 жыл бұрын
I love the look of Korean and your language Oa. It is so cool. I'd love to learn it when you are finished.
@parthiancapitalist2733 7 жыл бұрын
Hey artifexian! I am really interested in your script. And as some advice, it's nice to have variation in languages, it gives it character. Maybe you should make a proto form of the language first so for example a word like mokalo would evolve into a word with Schwa (mokalo>mokëlë> moklë) and this would be spelt the original way or be spelt like "moklo" without the Schwa letter. I am looking forward to this language please start the videos again!
@AshtonSnapp 6 жыл бұрын
Personally I would go top to bottom, left to right.
@aeaeeaoiauea 3 жыл бұрын
Isn't that exactly what he's doing?
@keithklassen5320 2 жыл бұрын
@@aeaeeaoiauea For sentences he is, for individual words he... Well, he also is, but each syllable gets broken down. I think OP is saying to make the words all run in a line instead of back and forth syllables.
@aeaeeaoiauea 2 жыл бұрын
@@keithklassen5320 Then it'd just be a featural alphabet instead of a featural syllabary?
@cavv0667 8 жыл бұрын
It is great to see you! Great Video!
@Artifexian 8 жыл бұрын
Cheers, man. Glad you enjoyed.
@Tomajdafrytrix 8 жыл бұрын
Wow, thats great writing system!
@Chantwizzle 7 жыл бұрын
Looks like Hangul. But I mean, this is basically how Hangul was invented.
@notpulverman9660 6 жыл бұрын
Wrong.
@gayvideos3808 5 жыл бұрын
He literally said he was inspired by Hangeul
@servantofaeie1569 4 жыл бұрын
Chantal Said nope, Hangul was taken from 'Phags-pa
@servantofaeie1569 4 жыл бұрын
@@shkrmkr no, i am right.
@JackTheGamingGuy4REALZ 7 жыл бұрын
I am working on a language and I think I will use the Oa Writing system! Thank You! +Artifexian
@parthiancapitalist2733 6 жыл бұрын
PackerFan Gamer. Don't copy
@CanaryMapping 6 жыл бұрын
Ancient languages and history He is not copying, is English copying Latin for using its writing system? No. He is telling him, that is good.
@touisbetterthanpi 6 жыл бұрын
What an interesting idea. Through history many languages have taken someone else’s writing system, and just morphed it to suit their needs.
@CanaryMapping 6 жыл бұрын
David Sullivan Like the Polish Writing System
@touisbetterthanpi 6 жыл бұрын
What’s the point of a language if it doesn’t spread? As long as @packerFan gamer doesn’t pass this invention off as his own, but merely uses it, I think it’s great
@jamieculkin 7 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! Oa is elegant to me.
@telotawa 8 жыл бұрын
I was thinking about doing something similar to this while on a plane ride, but this is way cooler!
@melody_florum 7 жыл бұрын
I think it should be base 16. It would make your language so much easier for computers, as they do base 2, and 16 is 2^4. Plus, Hexadecimal won’t be a thing, it’ll just be numbers.
@melody_florum 7 жыл бұрын
Plus you are going for a more logical approach, I think base 16 would not only be more logical, but cool too!
@BramLastname 5 жыл бұрын
Base 16 is already a thing tho
@hensleydodson5733 Ай бұрын
bro's a time traveler
@trinity_null 7 жыл бұрын
If your going base 12 then why do you have 13 symbols?
@trinity_null 7 жыл бұрын
theFizzyNator I say this because you're not supposed to have a glyph for the base your in, that's why we don't have a symbol for ten
@unleet-e1r 6 жыл бұрын
You're assuming a system with place value like the Hindu-Arabic numeral system we use. If that were the case, you'd be right, since 12 would be written one-zero. But... What I think is happening here is something closer to the Sino-Japanese system, but in base 12. So, 12 would be written [twelve], thirteen would be [twelve-one], 24 would be [two-twelve-zero], 50 would be [four-twelve-two], and so on. Anyway, it's supposed to be based on the Mayan numeral system, so I guess look that up for more info.
@griffinhaunts5496 6 жыл бұрын
most likely that symbol is zero.
@notpulverman9660 6 жыл бұрын
0 to 11. 12 digits?
@notpulverman9660 6 жыл бұрын
Jason D sooo basically you brought an irrelevant number system that nobody here uses into the picture.... only to then admit you know nothing of the RELEVANT number system that nobody uses.... meaning you have nothing to contribute? Why, bro....
@brandonscientia5433 5 жыл бұрын
you're so creative dude like this
@eoalvarez 8 жыл бұрын
Great job!
@izzrainy7410 6 жыл бұрын
Did the punctuation or number system get finished?
@AnCS. 7 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who thought he'd just messed with some Hangul?
@hikhuphoenix4107 7 жыл бұрын
He stated the similarity. So, I don't believe so.
@TaylorFisher-oj6qp 6 жыл бұрын
Sean Freeman few of the "characters" or whatever remind me of hangul
@kosukemiura1226 6 жыл бұрын
The letter for K is almost the same
@shans2408 6 жыл бұрын
It is exactly Hangul. :P He only replaced the shapes, kind of. Right from featural part to making the blocks. Can't blame him though, Hangul is that awesome. Even I was trying to "invent" a hangul inspired syllabary for Hindi.
@senesterium 5 жыл бұрын
You're the only one stupid enough to say this about something he OPENLY claimed.
@squigoo 8 жыл бұрын
i can not express how much i love han'geul i am so happy you were inspired by it :3 even if it is a bit fugly
@Artifexian 8 жыл бұрын
Hangul for the win. It's amazing.
@edibleapeman2 8 жыл бұрын
God DAMN I love this channel.
@Artifexian 8 жыл бұрын
AWESOME! :)
@sammy3212321 8 жыл бұрын
I love myself a systematic and phonetic writing system, I made one before I knew about IPA and it appears a lot more organic because of it. It ended up evolving in three stages, increasing in space efficiency before reaching a usable state. Oa looks really promising, but I'm not sold on the strict angles and lines in the alphabet, and although I'm all for the base 12 numerical system, are you trying to create perfect linguistic and numerical systems? What would that say about the society that uses it?
@tofferooni4972 2 жыл бұрын
A perfectionist society that strives to insert logic into everything
@sirloinofbeef7446 2 жыл бұрын
@@tofferooni4972 So, Vulcans?
@asliuf 8 жыл бұрын
SO COOL
@Artifexian 8 жыл бұрын
Aw! Cheers, buddy. Glad you enjoyed.
@keetrandling4530 7 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous! Beautiful! Lovely!
@pacmanfan1214 8 жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for a new video, saw this on the conlang subreddit and found out it was uploaded 3 days ago, and was like "but I swear I just checked his channel yesterday o.O" xD
@rebeccacall8554 8 жыл бұрын
One of the things I like to think about when creating conlangs is inclusiveness, or lack thereof. For instance, people who are blind are required to learn the braille alphabet in order to read English. Similarly, the Deaf community uses ASL instead of/alongside English. Do you think the Oa writing system could be understood by people who are blind if the letters were raised, or would you need an Oa braille? Similarly, would it be easy to understand Oa by reading lips if the observer were deaf? Finally, would be language be difficult for people with stutters, or issues with speech due to brain dysfunction/post-stroke? I'd love to get thoughts on this.
@Gamesaucer 8 жыл бұрын
I have decided on a base 11 number system for my language. Yay for base primes! I'm still working out the kinks in my writing system, though. It's an abugida, but with consonants tacked onto vowels instead of the other way around. It's also a vertical script. The feeling is dawning on me that I've made things quite complicated for myself. Whoops.
@Gamesaucer 8 жыл бұрын
Nah. I got it all to work out just fine.
@szlanty 8 жыл бұрын
every fraction: 0.1 = 1/11 0.26???????? REPEATING FEACTIONS ALMOST EVRY WHERE
@Gamesaucer 8 жыл бұрын
It's ok though. Fractions can be easily measured not only in elevenths, but also in fifths, tenths and fifty-fifths due to how my language handles these numbers. If people want to say a half they'll just ask for five parts of ten. In other words, my language doesn't use undecimals at all. For really precise numbers smaller units of measurement are used instead, if using fractions is too bothersome. Oh, and repeating fractions isn't actually really a problem. It's only a problem if you want to convert to other number systems.
@szlanty 8 жыл бұрын
Gamesaucer O
@minewarz 8 жыл бұрын
I just like base 2. It's like the most logical and simple thing you can use. But it would be a bit boring, I like your idea.
@travisoke4683 8 жыл бұрын
That's cool! Can't wait to see more on it. The only thing would be writing it all out. It wouldn't be as crisp as its shown in the video.
@Artifexian 8 жыл бұрын
Cursive version is on it's way.
@wonderstruck. 2 жыл бұрын
Glad to see the love for Hangul among conlangers 🥰
@essennagerry 7 жыл бұрын
First time here: Uhhh, inspired by the Korean one, I was always thinking of creating an Alphabet inspired by it! ~sees alphabet~ OMG SUBSCRIBED Also, you word things interestingly and the sidebar is intriguing. Looking forward to exploring your content!
@fzeromaster2 7 жыл бұрын
Why does every sound have an "a or ə" in it at the end?
@gcman201 6 жыл бұрын
fzeromaster2 it’s a linguistic convention to make it obvious which sound you’re articulating, since most consonants can’t really be articulated on their own
@huaklankat 8 жыл бұрын
congratulations, you reinvented korean! haha very interesting job for oa, and useful of course
@lordman5497 5 жыл бұрын
I was creating a writing system, and it works in the same way as this one!
@ethanmeid5044 8 жыл бұрын
base 12 is amazing
@kuko-lukas 6 жыл бұрын
yes it is
@Luka1180 8 жыл бұрын
I am studying linguistics too :)
@AtariGamerProject 8 жыл бұрын
But isn't learning from internet the same thing as studying?
@Luka1180 8 жыл бұрын
Sávio SG Exactly, it is. If you are studying things on the internet you are still studying @Author Cat Studios-toogletoggleOfTheCats Which is what I'm currently doing as well. Though I do plan on getting a PhD in linguistics at a university :) I wish I could get ones in all other kinds of sciences though, but it would take too many years. I might as well learn other sciences on the side. It shouldn't be impossible to get to PhD level knowledge with other subjects on my own once I properly know what I'm studying...
@AtariGamerProject 8 жыл бұрын
So, we are 3 :D. But I am not planning to get a PhD.
@wingnutxlv3588 8 жыл бұрын
very simplistic, yet effective ^^
@angelo877 3 жыл бұрын
I like that Conlang u made I like the writing too
@FooBarBash 8 жыл бұрын
So you've redone Hangul :'). It looks nice though.
@notpulverman9660 6 жыл бұрын
This is better than Hangul.
@parthiancapitalist2733 7 жыл бұрын
What does whanaver mean? I saw that word at the end
@cod73161 2 жыл бұрын
whenever
@oliverkarehag9883 8 жыл бұрын
Genius. I love the idea of the system. I think it's brilliant way to create a new featureal writing system. I must say it has kind of an alien look to it. And it looks a little bit like if you were to mix Hangul with ge'ez. Love it.
@Julio974 8 жыл бұрын
And it would be easy to aliens to understand it. The international language should use this writing system, understandable by anyone. A sort of "Engloash"
@tfan2222 Жыл бұрын
@@Julio974 ??? This doesn’t even cover HALF of the possible sounds. And tell me, how would you represent a click here?
@ZelieZazou 6 жыл бұрын
I can only approve your decision of taking hangul as the main source of inspiration for your writing system (even if no one cares about my approval, but I give it anyway ;p ). Hangul is by far the most simple, efficient and elegant writing system I know. Excellent choice!
@parthiancapitalist2733 7 жыл бұрын
If the Schwa and the period are the same, how can you tell the difference?
@jnbaker7422 7 жыл бұрын
The Schwa is a small diamond, but the period is a dot. However the number 0 is also a small diamond, but I also think this is intentional as "0" might just be pronounced with a single schwa.
@BramLastname 5 жыл бұрын
There could be a grammar rule for that
@Basicaly-sf7zn 7 жыл бұрын
You missed making a letter for the 'th' sound. Oh, right, you don't use it..😂
@notpulverman9660 6 жыл бұрын
Basica.ly damn bro
@peterlyons1392 3 жыл бұрын
Him: "Links in the doobly doo" Me: '~~~~~~~~~~~~~'
@donmeles7711 6 жыл бұрын
I am writing on my first novel since 2012. It is set on a fictional planet where they calculate in base 12 and write with capital, semicapital and minor letters from right to left and speak a language I'm still developing but already translated a poem I wrote myself. I always thought I was the only person who does such crazy things and tells people about it. Then I found this channel! I feel home