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How to Make a Conlang - Episode 2: Orthography

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This second episode of the series teaching you how to create your own constructed language focuses on orthography - writing! I explain some of the basics of how languages write, script types, direction, medium and evolution.

Watch the full series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHeVJSqi2ro8dJSlXkYB8qRBVSea84zh0

Further Reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdO3IP0Pro8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPNNGCO8ms
Very good book: "The Story of Writing (New Edition)" by Andrew Robinson, 1995 & 2007
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/index.htm
https://worldswritingsystems.org/
https://www.reddit.com/r/neography/wiki/index/resources/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOwP0KUlnZg
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000226475

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:14 A Correction
01:50 Unwritten Languages
03:36 Transcription
05:52 Transliteration
07:24 The Latin Script
08:33 Script Types
13:24 Writing Direction
19:11 Writing Medium
21:47 Complexity
22:56 Evolution
28:29 Summary
29:06 Outro

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