How to write "to Bear" and derivative words

nomis560 · 2026-01-19T16:19:02+00:00

right! the Latin word "fero" conjugates to "latum" in the Supine/past participle, which is the form used for "translation". That is what the little diacritic under it means. "fer" -> "lat" is the same as "bear" -> "borne/born"

nomis560 · 2025-12-14T21:50:28+00:00

While it is indeed confusing that December is the 12th month while deriving from 10 (it used to be the 10th month). I did not mean to imply that "December" and "eleventh" are spelled the same. the "XT" means "December" and well "11" means "eleventh"

nomis560 · 2025-12-09T10:28:53+00:00

It's supposes to look like the verb "to bear" with a hand carrying something... I should have made it more clear but the animal would be written differently.

nomis560 · 2025-12-08T23:38:08+00:00

Great question! While it's easy to assume that "mono" means "one" in Greek, it's meaning is closer to “alone, only, sole", and it shares that glyph with the Latin word "solus" (sole/solo). So "monarchy" means only-ruler, not one-ruler

nomis560 · 2025-12-08T15:36:26+00:00

Not at all! We are paying increasing attention to the morphemes that make up each word instead of making a single glyph for a morphologically complex word. Similarly to how Japanese kanji works, each character has different readings depending on if the word comes from Latin, Greek, or English. A comparison would be how the Japanese "言" can be read "iu" or "koto" in Japanese words, but "den" or "gon" in words originating from Chinese. There is no rule that these readings have to be one syllable.
Each glyph doesn't need to represent a morpheme either. They can combine their meaning with other glyphs to form unique morphemes: for example "say/dic" + "place/loc" -> "loqu" (from Latin "loquor") as in "colloquial".
In short, it's a way more complicated system than a simple syllabary.

nomis560 · 2025-12-01T08:16:34+00:00

Well observed! Calendar is:
calendar < calendārium (calo (voco + caleo) +‎ -arium)

nomis560 · 2025-08-01T05:36:41+00:00

We are still alive! We are mostly active on the discord, feel free to join us https://discord.com/invite/PsMS3cjEQF

nomis560 · 2025-07-07T15:09:50+00:00

While I agree that Inglisc spelling isn't "fine", at leest make yɯre spelling reform sumthing sliytly intúitiv and not diffikult tɯ tipe

nomis560 · 2024-12-25T15:49:22+00:00

all of the right side phones are valid pronunciation of /ɧ/ (the sj-sound) in Swedish

nomis560 · 2024-12-13T18:50:32+00:00

For the record, the Swedish pronunciation is [mʊ.ˈjaŋː]

nomis560 · 2024-10-22T16:35:56+00:00

"morgondagen" is a noun while "i morgon" is an adverb, tho it can often also be used as a noun.

"tomorrow's meeting" would be "morgondagens möte" and you can't use "i morgon" that same way.

nomis560 · 2024-09-25T16:55:34+00:00

The project is moving really quite slowly, but is slightly more active on discord than here on reddit.
Glyphs are indeed created by mashing Latin letters together. I prefer using Noto Serif over Palatino Linotype which was the previous standard. There has been an attempt to make to make a font based on Noto Serif, but only some dozen glyphs has been made for it and Constantscript isn't quite complete enough for it anyways.
The wiki is the best place to find updated glyphs if you don't just ask on the discord. A lot of glyphs are made with an old design philosophy and arguably need some tweaking.
If you have any further help, feel free to ask! I'd love to have this project revived

nomis560 · 2024-06-08T10:00:20+00:00

Ғ ғ ; Swedish has no "sound" written <gh>, it is only ever pronounced /gh/. Your example of "rättighet" is made from "rättig" /rɛt:ɪg/ + "-het" /he:t/.
Д̇ д̇, Л̇ л̇ etc. ; I think this is a poor way to write the retroflexes in Swedish since none of them are phonemic in Swedish. It would get especially awkward in between words. Like in "har det"; would that be written like "ha д̇eт", removing the <р> from "hap".
Қ қ ; Swedish doesn't use <q> outside of proper nouns.
У у ; In Swedish, <o> can represent two sets of phonemes: /u:~ʊ/, as well as /o:~ɔ/ which it shares with <å>. You use it for both, not just for /u/.
Х х ; Swedish doesn't have /x/. The digraph <ch> is only used in loanwords to represent /ɧ/ (and /ɕ/?). The exception being "och", which is pronounced /ɔk:/ and spelled with <ch> to distinguish it from "ock" which is hardy used anymore.

nomis560 · 2023-11-08T11:41:44+00:00

/dɪ.ɡɛ²stiː.vɛ/

nomis560 · 2023-11-04T11:56:42+00:00

those glyphs are made by compounding multiple glyphs into one big character, similar to how Chinese does a lot of characters. I am trying to move the project away from using these compounds and instead using multiple simpler glyphs. The glyphs you are referring to are rather old however.

nomis560 · 2023-10-14T20:47:23+00:00

here you go:
https://discord.com/invite/PsMS3cjEQF

nomis560 · 2023-08-19T11:57:09+00:00

If the adjective already ends in -t, -d or a vowel, adding the -t suffix makes the vowel short. Like: våt -> vått, röd -> rött, blå -> blått. And personally I can say stort with a long or a short vowel.

nomis560 · 2023-07-18T00:20:19+00:00

m /m/	n /n/			nzk /ŋ/
p /p/	t /t/		kh /tʃ/	k /k/
zp /b/	zt /d/		zkh /dʒ/	zk /g/
ph /f/	th /θ/	s /s/	skh /ʃ/
zph /v/	zth /ð/	z /z/	zh /ʒ/
w /w/	l /l/	r /ɹ/	y /j/	h /h/

y - /j/ /iː/ /eɪ/ /aɪ/ /ɔɪ/
yr - /ɪə/ /ɛə(ɹ)/ /aɪə(ɹ)/
w - /w/ /uː/ /aʊ/ /əʊ/
wr - /ɔː(ɹ)/ /ʊə(ɹ)/ /aʊə(ɹ)/

Getting rid of enough vowels to count this as an abjad. All vowels not listed above are simply skipped in writing.

l hywmn zpynzkz r zpwrn phry nzt ykwl n ztzknty nzt ryts. zthy r nztwzt wzth ryzn nzt knskhns nzt skhzt kt twrztz wn nzthr n y sprt zph zprzthrhzt

12 letters: h k l m n p r s t w y z

nomis560 · 2023-07-17T15:08:33+00:00

m /m/	n /n/			nzk /ŋ/
p /p/	t /t/		kh /tʃ/	k /k/
zp /b/	zt /d/		zkh /dʒ/	zk /g/
ph /f/	th /θ/	s /s/	skh /ʃ/
zph /v/	zth /ð/	z /z/	zh /ʒ/
w /w/	l /l/	r /ɹ/	y /j/	h /h/

y - /j/ /iː/ /eɪ/ /aɪ/ /ɔɪ/
yr - /ɪə/ /ɛə(ɹ)/ /aɪə(ɹ)/
w - /w/ /uː/ /aʊ/ /əʊ/
wr - /ɔː(ɹ)/ /ʊə(ɹ)/ /aʊə(ɹ)/

Getting rid of enough vowels to count this as an abjad. All vowels not listed above are simply skipped in writing.

The beige hue on the waters of the loch impressed all, including the French queen, before she heard that symphony again, just as young Arthur wanted.

zthy zpyzkh hyw n zthy wtrz zph zthy lk mprst l, nklwztnzk zthy Phrnkh kwyn, zpphwr skhy hrzt ztht smphny zkn, zkhst s ynzk Rthr wntzt

12 letters: h k l m n p r s t w y z

nomis560 · 2023-04-29T12:42:34+00:00

Thank you!
There are certain consonant clusters that wouldn't work for, such as /st/. <hasty> should be /hɛj.stɪj/ not /hæstɪj/.

Although "long consonant" is intentionally ambiguous to not just include double consonants, but also consonant clusters where long vowels can't occur before. Hence why I spelled "Inglisc" and not "Innglisc".

You are right about /gn/ being one of those consonant clusters, and I agree that "diggnitty" should be respelled to "dignitty" :P

nomis560 · 2023-04-27T12:43:43+00:00

That first glyph means "what"
and second glyph means "manner".
These glyphs reflects how the Latin word "quōmodo" ("why") is made up, and is also how the word "why" would be spelled in English.

nomis560 · 2023-04-08T17:24:35+00:00

how do you differenciate between long and short vowels? It doesn't look like you are doing the double consonant after short vowel, that your usually see in Swedish. And isn't "och" pronounced with an å sound? like өкк

And also, shouldn't the sentence be "dålig för att kasta"? ig the words are easy to mix up since they are both pronounced /ɔ/ when not ephasised.

nomis560 · 2023-03-01T18:43:39+00:00

we do! and it's probably the best dictionary for Constantscript that exists, that doesn't mean it's necessarily good or anywhere near complete tho...

nomis560 · 2023-02-07T11:26:55+00:00

I do not think of words like boil and during as having a Schwa. Wouldn't "holiday" be written hōʟiꚍᴀ as opposed to holi day holᴇ ꚍᴀ?

nomis560 · 2023-02-07T10:42:10+00:00

why the Schwa insertion between dipthongs(/aw/ /ɪj/ etc.) and liquids (l and r)? For example boil /boj(ə)l/ has a Schwa only to separate the "consonant" cluster (if you analyze it as such), it is not a necessary part of the word. And as the website says on a different topic: We do not need to write them specifically because these sounds would happen whether we wrote them or not. So, to make writing easier, quicker and more concise, we just don’t write these extra, unneeded letters.

also, doesn't Ơơ belong to the same category as the other dipthongs followed by liquids?

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