Googi /gʌːgi/ adj. tired; bored
Just started hacking away at creating the conscript for A’oonirobi. It's a moraic syllabary (probably?) with a planned 363 total glyphs:
- 312 Consonant-Vowel pairs,
- 30 plain consonants,
- 16 numerals,
- 2 nasal diacritics,
- 2 reversal characters,
- and 1 space.
Most graphemes have three versions (more technically, they have three allographs) those being: initial, medial, and final depending on where in the word it appears à la Arabic.
It's read vertically top-to-bottom and left-to-right. Traditionally it was inked with the fingers on large thick leaves with peculiar parallel venation, hence the two lines on either side. While it is still often written on these leaves, it has also has transitioned to papyrus.
It's gonna be real fun to turn into an actual font, assuming I can get the whole
vertical thing
to work at all
Finished all of the 27 ⟨ḅ⟩ /ʙ/ consonants for A’oonirobi's script and can now spell wonderful words like ⟨ḅooḅ⟩ and uh... probably some others I'm sure.
⟨ḅ⟩ is somewhat special in that it has a plain (non-vowel) initial form since syllables in A’oonirobi are (C⊻BŔ)V(C¹) where BŔ² means any labial consonant can cluster with any non-bilabial trill, so the labial consonants /m,b,v,ʙ/ all have initial plain forms whereas the rest of the consonants only have medial and final forms³
Footnotes
¹Except /j/²I used B for Bilabial instead of L for Labial to prevent confusion with liquids⁴
³Except ⟨j⟩ which only has no plain forms
⁴/v/ becomes [β] in that position anyway