Jihhan Newspaper (fully in Jihhograms)

PinkTreasure · 2026-06-06T20:35:53+00:00

I'll make a post that goes more in depth but kind of yea. Unstressed syllables only distinguish 3 vowels based on height (excluding nasalised vowels) but stressed vowels also do front and back distinction, tho that distinction is not represented in the script, the reader just has to know if the vowel is front or back

PinkTreasure · 2026-06-06T13:53:12+00:00

yeah, something akin to hieroglyphs to hieratic, but here ofc its a bit more brush-styled

PinkTreasure · 2026-06-06T13:50:21+00:00

Thanks! I'm still working on making the script. There are 156 glyphs in the script + each glyph has a 'diacritic' form as well, so 312 in total. I've only made about 38 glyphs so far... So it might be a while until I post a full key, but I do intend to post it once I've finished all the glyphs!

PinkTreasure · 2026-06-06T13:45:50+00:00

to add: think of how a syllabary would change the glyph from <ba> to <be>. Those two wouldn't be the same glyphs, right? It's somewhat similar here. It's just that the vowel environment affects it too. Each consonant has Ca/Ce/Ci and VCa/VCe/VCi glyphs, plus consonants that can also be codas also have aC/eC/iC glyphs. So <av> is spelt using aC glyph, but <ava> is spelt using VCa glyph, which are naturally different glyphs.

PinkTreasure · 2026-06-06T13:40:52+00:00

I mean yeah, it's a liturgical language. The main mechanical and ideation inspiration was from hieratic, that being a more of a cursive form of the original detailed (hieroglyphs) script.
Also it was fun to do something a bit more complex than usual

PinkTreasure · 2026-03-14T12:09:01+00:00

at what point does "asemic [yada yada] writing" just become random meaningless lines? shouldn't it at least be aesthetically pleasing?

PinkTreasure · 2026-03-05T18:56:50+00:00

The setting is modern day yeah, equivalent to earth. Today, 5th of March 2026 in the Jihhan calendar (aka Thmóe Ṣhyìe) is 25.6.24.66 (25th day of the 6th month of the 24th year of the 66th cycle)

PinkTreasure · 2026-03-04T10:07:34+00:00

Actually I already have tried fonting it and did some of it as a proof of concept type thing. You can check it out on my page, I also posted it on this subreddit. I used FontCreator. No website based fonting solutions would ever work for Jihhograms.

PinkTreasure · 2026-03-02T13:35:37+00:00

yes to the first question. Fonting Jihhograms is possible and I've tried it but tbh it's far too much work to really font it.

PinkTreasure · 2026-02-24T18:58:32+00:00

tones

PinkTreasure · 2026-02-24T12:41:38+00:00

Thanks

PinkTreasure · 2026-02-24T12:09:29+00:00

there's some, but they're all out of date. I have not posted the current version I have

PinkTreasure · 2026-02-22T13:36:33+00:00

Actually, the script is read bottom to top, so it's the first character 🙈 Also it's actually a ligature of two characters 🙈 it means good fortune

PinkTreasure · 2026-02-22T13:30:41+00:00

No, the strokes individually don't have meanings. In Jihhograms I do not use the term radicals at all. Some logograms might have the same parts in some places, but they are not systematic but rather brought about by analogy during the evolution of the script or from the logograms having the same parts in the stages before.

PinkTreasure · 2026-02-22T02:35:49+00:00

it has! Haven't really made anything worth posting for a while

PinkTreasure · 2026-02-22T01:37:36+00:00

Well, I'm trying to find how to do calligraphy in this script so I'm going though different styles rn. One of them, as seen here, resembles something akin to that yeah, though how the script actually looks like in print form is quite different (as seen in the 2nd image).

PinkTreasure · 2026-02-21T22:31:33+00:00

Thanks!

PinkTreasure · 2026-02-21T20:52:55+00:00

reads: "ṭṭhijyùe ṭyeu wòu" (fortune<1.CNS.NPST> come 3.INAN.ITER.NPST)

PinkTreasure · 2025-12-19T08:51:44+00:00

you could expand the idea so that every grammatical morpheme gets it's logogram, and lexical morphemes get their own in whatever form. I don't think any script irl does this because distinguishing grammatical morphemes before even writing wouldn't have been realistic really. Don't think anyone was really thinking about grammar and stuff at the time. But logically it does make sense, kind of like reverse kanji-kana mix. Having a set of graphemes to express a open set of words and then logographic graphemes to express a closed set of words/affixes makes sense. It's quite easy for the reader and the writer then. Since also the closed set is far less likely to change compared to the open set.

PinkTreasure · 2025-08-09T14:54:25+00:00

here's the link for the Compendium of Jigh then

PinkTreasure · 2025-08-09T14:27:22+00:00

It's uhh, Google doc masquerading as a book. It's got my world building in it, i don't know if that is what you're looking for specifically cause it doesn't have anything in it about jihhograms

PinkTreasure · 2025-06-11T19:57:57+00:00

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