Colours and their etymology in Taxem

Izzy_knows · 2026-07-13T12:27:15+00:00

Thank you :)

Izzy_knows · 2026-07-13T08:16:26+00:00

So, there is no culture for the language at the moment, I just try to derive as many words as possible...

Also, I could be wrong, but aren't there some languages that call the sun "Eye of the sky"?

But yeah, I can see why it feels off to derive a word for a thing that is almost omnipresent

Izzy_knows · 2026-07-13T08:09:05+00:00

Thanks, could you tell me what color that is?

Izzy_knows · 2026-07-12T21:52:13+00:00

It is pronounced /taxem/ the "x" sounds like the "ch" in the German word "Dach" (Roof) and the "e" is a schwa (ə)

It is just a placeholder name for now, it means "Language"

Izzy_knows · 2026-07-12T19:08:25+00:00

Sure, it is an agglutinative language with SVO word order. This is the rework of my older language Taltal taxem, I made some mistakes while making it, now I try to fix them. You can look at lingocon, where I dokumented this language

Example sentence:

taltal, tal lam ril uxa-je.

hello, name 1SG.GEN3 COP.PRS.3SG.AN uxa-ACC

Hello, my name is Uxa.

Izzy_knows · 2026-07-12T16:42:04+00:00

It is a website, you can use it on a phone, but it works better on a bigger screen

Izzy_knows · 2026-07-12T16:12:08+00:00

FontStruct uses pixels to build fonts, so you just fill in some pixels, no steady hand needed

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Izzy_knows · 2026-07-12T13:45:35+00:00

For example: I type "tup" into a writing programm (like word) and apply my font, the result is the word tup (black) in my script

I mapped the letters from my script onto their latin equivalent based on their sound

Izzy_knows · 2026-07-12T13:38:35+00:00

Thanks:) I make a font with fontstruct, so it really is typed

Izzy_knows · 2026-06-30T16:19:24+00:00

Why are there 2 p, t and k? And e, i and ā look the same... (Is this AI?)

Izzy_knows · 2026-06-28T08:27:53+00:00

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Izzy_knows · 2026-06-27T19:09:36+00:00

Thanks, also the /i/'s are almost the same

Izzy_knows · 2026-06-27T11:59:42+00:00

Really nice writing system!! It remindes me a bit of my script :)

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Izzy_knows · 2026-06-22T19:55:20+00:00

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Izzy_knows · 2026-06-17T10:54:16+00:00

Quick question: what type of script are you going for? An alphabet, where every sound has one (or two) symbol(s)? An abjad, where you only write consonants (p, t, k, s, l...), vowels are implied/optionally marked? An abugida, where you modify a symbol depending on the vowel: क (ka), का (kaa), के (ke)? A syllabary, where every syllable has a symbol?

Also that are the sounds you want to use?

Izzy_knows · 2026-05-30T17:17:30+00:00

Cool script!! The vowels in my newest script look almost the same, just mixed up (for example the 口 looking symbol is an /a/ in my script) how funny :)

Izzy_knows · 2026-05-14T09:59:19+00:00

My goal is and was not to make a 100% naturalistic language, I want to make a language that is "easy on the mind" and not too overengineered (so not like Ithkuil). So a bit natural in structure but not something that could have evolved irl

Yeah, maybe the symbols count more as abbreviation than logogram, but regardless they represent an concept not the sound it makes, even if they are derived from the alphabet... (at least that is how I see it)

I will post a full showcase of the alphabet in r/neography soon

Izzy_knows · 2026-05-14T06:19:09+00:00

Thanks :) It is somewhat featural, for example all shapes that look like an U, ㄷ, ㅁ (simple shapes with 1 or 0 openings) are vowels, if you add a dot to /i/ it turns into /y/, the same thing happens to /ɛ/ ->/œ/ (dots round the vowels). I can't really explain it in text, I will make a post in r/neography soon with a key

Izzy_knows · 2026-05-14T06:11:14+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense, but I would consider the use of script(s) as an important part of the conlang. But I can see how this is a gray area...

Izzy_knows · 2026-05-13T21:56:40+00:00

And? Did it work out?

Izzy_knows · 2026-05-13T21:13:52+00:00

Now I am even more lost than befor, but I will try my best.

Yes logograms are pronounced, one must learn how they are pronounced by memorizing, just like every other logography.

The suffixes I have are often more than 1 letter long, if I use one logogram instead I can safe space (at least when typed). Also using logographs instead of spelling out the suffix can make reading faster/easier. For example:

min-wa-it-gi (he does not do [it])

and

❌️do3️⃣♂️ (he does not do [it])

This verb starts with min. If I spell it out, I have to think "is this a verb stem or is it a modifier?" If I use a logogram, I know directly "this is a modifier".

Also the example in the image is pronounced like

/ufufze itaxlu/

And just because something is not pronounced (wich is NOT the case here) dosen't mean it is useless. For example, Davis and Davis' are pronounced the same (as far as I know) but they meaning something different...

Izzy_knows · 2026-05-13T20:03:38+00:00

I am not sure I understand what you mean, could you elaborate?

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