The Oa Writing System

[@Lucy-ng7cw]

I'd love to see a written version of Oa. Especially the cursive

[@Artifexian]

Some artifexian viewers are working on this as we speak. Very exciting times.

[@entropyzero5588]

Oa block in Unicode coming… when? :D

[@mat2468xk]

Does a cursive version of Korean (and Chinese and Japanese) even exist, though?

[@TheInterestingInformer]

@@mat2468xk YUP! That what makes it so confusing sometimes to learn for me...

[@nuklearboysymbiote]

@@mat2468xk yes

[@junjunjamore7735]

Artifexian: "It is based on Hangul (Korean writing)!" Comments: "Am I the only who noticed he copied Korean?"

[@MisterSketch4]

Child Of The Smokeless Fire that was obvious, and he said that himself in the video!

[@64156ful]

Exactly why op is making fun of the comments saying it looks like Korean

[@Chiro-7548]

Many Koreans confuse Korean Language and Korean Writing(Hangul).

[@Kro368]

Haha, as someone learning Korean(and already knowing Hangul) YES I did!! It's an excellent idea I think!!XD

[@kuutti256]

i also noticed... so get *nae-nae'd*

[@joescott]

I've put a lot of work into some of my videos, but I've never created an entire writing system. Damn.

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Never expected Joe to be here

[@TerribleTonyShow]

ayo joe scott poggers?

[@ufcasual]

yet

[@KerbalHub]

Hi joe

[@hulick6910]

Hmm, verified?

[@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676]

10 is folly 12 is jolly 60 is... OH MY GOLLY

[@cyndie26]

Isaac The Destroyer of Stuped Yes, but one may need to come up with 60 numerals, although the Babylonians seemed to have taken care of that.

[@paradoxo9111]

I think that since Artifexian said his numbering system would be inspired on the Mayan system, he probably wouldn't need to invent so many symbols if he decided to use a base-60 system.

[@MuzikBike]

210 is godly

[@Alice-gr1kb]

Isaac The Destroyer of Stuped Babylon...

[@tibethatguy]

Link: GOLLY

[@omfgmouse]

I think your schwa would be better as an open diamond ◇ rather than a filled diamond ◆ Mainly because if people were writing this with a pen, a ◇ would be much easier to write than a ◆, which could easily turn into a simple dot. Other than that, cool! I'm kind of tempted to try out this system of yours except with English sounds...

[@arturmizuno]

each writing system is adapted to its environment, latin on stone, some writings on clay or bees wax (tablets) were more of a line system ( similar to 1337). Lindybeige has a video on it. so I suppose this system would use nanquim (china ink) to write, instead of convencional pens (I guess)

[@pacmanfan1214]

◆ would be way easier to write with a fountain pen.

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

In which case with nanquim I can easily see over time the language evolving to just use a • rather than a ♦

[@DominoPivot]

I can see the open diamond evolving into a circle with repeated casual handwriting, which would be confusing. I'd go for the dot too, but it would make sense for it to be a diamond if people who wrote this used a brush or quill to write. After all, calligraphy is also a form of art. And perhaps this alphabet is used by a computer-savvy society, who knows :)

[@lucillefrancois150]

Keiji Ikari It is based on English sounds.

[@melody_florum]

I have a feeling that if this became a writing system in a society, the Schwa would evolve into a dot if this was handwritten

[@steller7515]

Or an open diamond.

[@alicewyan]

or possibly just dropped as it gets dropped from speech

[@samizayed1126]

similar to Arabic, ig

[@foxyjambread3826]

Artifexian: *bases his writing system on Hangul* Me, who can somewhat read Hangul: *tries to pronounce 'mng'*

[@L1M.L4M]

Is that referring to the AO thing

[@JunoItaliano]

As a Korean, I was really confused by the thumbnail of the video, and some of these letters. They look exactly like 한글

[@aswalchitra]

​@@JunoItaliano Yea that the letters in the thumbnail look like ㄱㅁㅈstashed upon each other

[@JunoItaliano]

@@aswalchitra ikr!

[@illusions7457]

Me trying to pronounce ujmngju be like be like: AAAAAJAJWJAJAAJAJAJAJAIAIAIAIIAIAIAIAIAIAIIAIAIAIAIAIAAAAAAAAAIAIAAAA8AAA8AAAIAAA9AA9AOASAAA9AAA9AAAA9A9AAA9AAA8AIAIAIAAAAAAAAAÑALAALLSKWKSKKASAAÑAÑÑÑAÑÑÑÑAÑAAÑAÑAÑAÑAÑÑAÑAÑAÑAAAAAAASSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGNGNGNNGNGNGNGNNGGSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA9AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÑAAAAOAAAÑAAAOAÑAAAOAAÑAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWHKMG 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38 6:38

[@smuecke]

In order to make your writing system a bit more "oranic-looking" like Hangul, you might want to think about what the people that would speak and write your language might be using as a medium (carve the glyphs on stone, write on paper using a brush, a quill etc.) and start to "erode" the glyphs like do when handwriting - simulate the natural development of your writing system to smooth out those pointy edges etc.

[@rowanjoy419]

yes, don't forget that hangul was create for just one human. not like others that form naturally. i'm not saying that koreans don't write naturally, it's just that looks very strict.

[@earfolds]

Now I'm really, really excited. This is like a hyper-logical Hangul, and the dozenal number system is a very good choice. The diamond-shaped /ə/ is very Arabic, too.

[@earfolds]

I have a suggestion for the number system; it may be interesting to make 11 resemble 1, 10 resemble 2, 9 resemble 3, and so on. Just a little nod towards how much more, or how much less, than a round 12 the digit is. I've seen it in some dozenal number systems, and I think it might be an interesting idea for your language.

[@jnbaker7422]

Ted Logan For some reson, wrriting in base tweleve with arabic numerals confuses me. It's like writing in english with the Phonecian alphabet. It works, to an extent, but not quite. Therefore my advice to you is to try and make your symbols look as dissimilar to arabice numerals as possible in order to avoid this confusion.

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

I rate his language 6/8 so far. I mean any well thought out language would get 7/8, but his isn't all that great. I mean it still is logical and awesome, but not as appealing as _most_ natural languages, though it may get better as he makes more grammar. 8/8 would be totally natural- basically the conlanger starts with a 200000 year old simple as hell oral language, then creates many dialect continuum so as the species explores most of the world, then drives proto languages, then languages. That would be 8/8

[@karlpoppins]

@@parthiancapitalist2733 Not all conlangs have to be natlangs.

[@samizayed1126]

@@karlpoppins Some ppl r natlang supremacists

[@robingaming3391]

I tried to make three alphabets, two abugidas, an abjad, a featural alphabet and a logographic system, only to make my world seem realistic, and also to make some analogs to real life countries. My mind stopped working when I tried to do my featural alphabet though. I feel dizzy when I see it.

[@Misitan]

I made my own writing system too, based on lip syncs and featural alphabets, It shows the whole process, example is M, first it's how it's mouth sync is, then how it is pronounced after that, each letter can technically become a vowel or consonant, it's just how it's pronounced, does this language work, I don't think so, I might have the same failure as you

[@AlgyCuber]

2016 artifexian : wants oa to use base twelve 2019 artifexian : changes to base dozen four

[@brunnomenxa]

And everything remains changeable.

[@oleksiiammo7832]

base twensy four

[@jan-pi-ala-suli]

CALL IT DOZE- oh wait that is base 6. huh. nevermind the screaming then.

[@TheDankBoi69]

yes@@oleksiiammo7832

[@TH3P3RS0N42]

My main issue is that it takes a lot of different glyphs to type it out on a computer with all the scaling, which is an important consideration in this day and age. Maybe if you didn't scale it like Hangul's in their sylable blocks, it would be simpler. There's also the issue of dyslexics mixing up a lot of the letters from all the symmetry. This isn't a terrible writing system or anything, but it definitely has room for improvement.

[@Artifexian]

Agreed. It is by no means perfect. Perfect takes time and sometime the help of a awesome audience base. :)

[@TH3P3RS0N42]

And sorry if I came of overly critical. My goal was to bring up some issues that probably don't come up much, not to pointlessly bash your script.

[@SomeBritishGal1]

+Artifexian The Koreans do well enough typing Hangul, just go onto Google Translate and select Korean and keyboard, not really an issue when it's already been done.

[@vjorp5332]

It's actually impossible to make that into a fonr :/

[@livedandletdie]

Not really. It's just slightly more complicated.

[@gregli9821]

5:00 “And yes, it will be in base 12.” *4 years later* numbering system: in base 16

[@7MinutozRapsLetras]

lol

[@T.h.e.T.i.n.o]

Even later yet 😅

[@olafvanderveen629]

I thought your system was very elegant. I also just learned Hangul, so this was nice and smooth :)

[@TheAntiGravityMaster]

Am I the only one that's going to point out that Oa is the Green Lantern planet?

[@dormic123]

What has someone stolen the name already!?!?! /sarcasm

[@SciFiFan2012]

It's been destroyed so I guess it's ok lol

[@dulledmemory4776]

I'm not sure celestial body names have a copyright.

[@josephteller9715]

Imaginary worlds within the context of a work of fiction have the same copyright as the work itself and the names of fictional characters within the work so long as it can be proved the original source of the name and it is being used in a similar or derivative manner. This is why Barsoom remains the copyright property of the Burroughs Estate via the John Carter of Mars novel series. So, new name needed.

[@TaiFerret]

Joseph Teller Copyright is monopoly, not property.

[@OmegaTaishu]

Hey, Artifexian. It's been over an year now, how's your language going?

[@ryuko4478]

He isn't working on it anymore, he just used it as an example for his early conlanging videos

[@ghsk5559]

I was creating a language. That language has two ways for write: Latin Alphabet (with diacritics) and Hangul (using old hangul characters)

[@Alice-gr1kb]

Check in

[@masynbeene5485]

He is still working on it sometimes.

[@toyoung_blue]

As a linguistics lover and a Korean I found your Oa really interesting. :O Please keep going!

[@DanTheCaptain]

I love the look of Korean and your language Oa. It is so cool. I'd love to learn it when you are finished.

[@ryanzarmbinski7446]

When are you getting your unicode block?

[@Julio974]

I got the same idea while looking the video !

[@illumnigd8649]

im gonna make it bitch

[@illumnigd8649]

in a font

[@kuko-lukas]

now or never

[@kebedezewdie8743]

Either use hangul or Romanize.

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

There's nothing wrong with copying Hangul - do what works! Personally, I'm fond of Japanese orthography, with complicated semantic letters indicating meaning and simpler phonetic letters describing the grammar. It's a system I'd like to use as a frame of reference if I ever actually get around to working on a conlang.

[@Artifexian]

Those kana smiley faces though...love em :)

[@notmik3]

@@Artifexian シ

[@TheWolfboy180]

why does he sound so sensual at 1:45

[@the-bruh.cum5]

Más papacito más más más Quierooooo esooooooooo

[@chassepot3541]

Sounds like a minecraft villager

[@aldobernaltvbernal8745]

@@the-bruh.cum5 as a native spanish speaker that hurts to read.

[@hlaweardlaighonaghidau6543]

Fuck of now I can't unhear it

[@AtOutoftheBlue]

For those of you who don't know what Hangeul is, it's the alphabet of the Korean language (also known as Chosungul in North Korea). It's considered to be rather beautiful and highly logical, with the "y" sound (like in "ya") being represented by an added stroke to the vowel (an example being "ㅏ", which makes an "a" sound, becoming "ㅑ", which makes a "ya" sound.) They also generally use a line to indicate when a consonant is aspirated, like when "ㄷ", which makes a "d" sound, becomes "ㅌ", which makes a "t" sound. It's really beautiful and crazy easy to learn, and I would definitely suggest learning it, and Korean as a whole. 파이팅, and good learning!

[@marbleswan6664]

0:45 Hey! That could be a language, you draw those lines for the start of the sound, then the end of the sound, and the reader infers on the in between part. Sort of like what you did, but you can write whole words by showing change over time

[@gemthepolyglot3258]

Oh my gosh, this is simple, but brilliant! I love the inspiration from how the mouth moves to create the glyphs.

[@PelletProject]

This is really neat, and I definitely saw the parallel to Hangul. Now, I'm curious to see if there is a way to write this language in calligraphy, or at least in some form of cursive. A lot of languages are known for having this feature, so would this be possible in Oa?

[@lachlan7181]

Grats on your increasing popularity Artifexian! It's crazy seeing your subscriber count going up so fast

[@abdulmuhaimin9780]

go base twelve!

[@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX]

Go hexadecimal!

[@jeromej.1992]

base 12 for the win!

[@brennanlong464]

Octal is the master race!

[@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX]

Octal is cool too

[@jacksouthgate4354]

HEX HEX Hex! Jk, I'll always love dozenal

[@vitano5681]

please do something on writing systems in general

[@KerbalHub]

I learned hangul and this looks cursed af

[@wanderingrandomer]

Dude, that's really clever! There's a brilliant logic behind it that I really love! It kind of reminds me of the alphabet I worked on for my conlang. Stops had the most jagged letters, through to vowels which had the most fluid letters, and voiced consonants had a mark added onto their voiceless counterparts. I also made a separate letter for digraphs, which blend together elements from their constituent consonants.

[@gamefan1353]

Can't wait to learn me some Oa in the future ^^

[@АлекАлистарх]

You're making me extremely excited to see the rest of the series

[@lyonnw7691]

This is really interesting and I am really excited to see that there are other people trying to invent their own writing systems and languages as well! I've taught myself Hangul, Cyrillic, Hiragana, Katakana, about 150++ Kanji and Filipino's Baybayin. I already invented a writing system derived from Baybayin but I modified it to suit the Malay pronunciation and other Nusantara languages specifically languages in the Northern Borneo like Rungus and Dusun. As for now, I am the only one who can write and read it proficiently. I don't know how to publish it or anything. I showed it to my friends and they were like, your writing system is too complicated T..T And I was like, compared to Thai or Arabic, my writing system is far more simpler T..T

[@الماحي-ه3ح]

Hello, I'm a Syrian Arab, I'm thinking about sending a message via messenger to send me a picture of your writing system

[@lyonnw7691]

@@الماحي-ه3ح sure

[@lyonnw7691]

@@الماحي-ه3ح on which platform you want to have a chat?

[@الماحي-ه3ح]

@@lyonnw7691 Yes of Corse

[@lyonnw7691]

@@الماحي-ه3ح في اي تطبيق تريدني ان ارسال لك my writing system؟ لانني لا استخدم الفيسبوك. Maybe via Instagram or Telegram?

[@jinzounolan]

An idea to "de-fugly-ify" Oa might be to take even more from Hangul's origin and use brush strokes. A lot of what makes East Asian writing (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc) appear so pretty is the specific stroke order combined with actual brushes in traditional writing. That appearance then became common in numerous fonts for printing as well. Maybe utilize a different writing tool, different stroke order, or maybe find another part of the world with similar writing history to work from. But I honestly think if you were to consider the history of how people literally 'wrote' the characters you might be able to make your characters look much more elegant and realistic.

[@civilixxxx8914]

Despite some time passed from creation of this script, I'll try to adopt it for Chinese.

[@GothicWiccan61]

I just so happened to stumble across your channel and fell absolutely in love!! I created my own writing system when I was a teen so watching this was a complete joy, new subscriber :)

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

Hey artifexian! I am really interested in your script. And as some advice, it's nice to have variation in languages, it gives it character. Maybe you should make a proto form of the language first so for example a word like mokalo would evolve into a word with Schwa (mokalo>mokëlë> moklë) and this would be spelt the original way or be spelt like "moklo" without the Schwa letter. I am looking forward to this language please start the videos again!

[@182mdavi]

Im doing research on base 10 counting and redefining Pi to be a rational number (Pi is infinite, yet a circle is finite, you can trace a circle and make it back to a starting point, but calculating mathematically in base 10 gives you either just under or just over). This video of yours has given me a lot more to ponder in my research as mathematics is but a language of numbers. I’ve already given credit to the ancient babylonians on their base 60 count, to the Egyptians, Eastern Asia and Hebrew for my findings so far and I’m also giving credit to you for sparking an idea I haven’t had previously for me to continue in my line of research. Where you’ve created your own way of representing speech, I will create my own method of counting that will allow a « bend » in numbers to calculate the fundamentals of existence (atoms that comprise everything are not square yet base 10 and 12 counting are square and only give approximations to non-linear and non-square values). Counting systems were devised before we had a fundamental understanding of what comprised whatever we were counting. A square block of wood is a composition of circular/oval atomic clusters that only appear square however atomically have curved edges and spaces between each atom that are constantly shifting, a square is not really a square. You’ve given me an idea to account for such a flux, cheers for your wisdom

[@Astronomy487]

4:42 You know that a phi-squared to phi ratio can be simplified? Just divide both sides by phi, and you have a phi-to-one ratio. Just like the individual blocks.

[@Asodym]

I love your use of phi, it is my absolute favorite number of all time. thank you.

[@SuperAkiraNakamura]

yup,oa is just like advanced hangul

[@TheNerd484]

I found this a while ago and thought you might like it. His entire blog is great.

[@iwikal]

It's not a ripoff, your phonemes are different from hangul!

[@donmeles7711]

I am writing on my first novel since 2012. It is set on a fictional planet where they calculate in base 12 and write with capital, semicapital and minor letters from right to left and speak a language I'm still developing but already translated a poem I wrote myself. I always thought I was the only person who does such crazy things and tells people about it. Then I found this channel! I feel home

[@JackTheGamingGuy4REALZ]

I am working on a language and I think I will use the Oa Writing system! Thank You! +Artifexian

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

PackerFan Gamer. Don't copy

[@CanaryMapping]

Ancient languages and history He is not copying, is English copying Latin for using its writing system? No. He is telling him, that is good.

[@touisbetterthanpi]

What an interesting idea. Through history many languages have taken someone else’s writing system, and just morphed it to suit their needs.

[@CanaryMapping]

David Sullivan Like the Polish Writing System

[@touisbetterthanpi]

What’s the point of a language if it doesn’t spread? As long as @packerFan gamer doesn’t pass this invention off as his own, but merely uses it, I think it’s great

[@JayFolipurba]

Ermahgerd, I completely forgot about this channel. Glad you're back! I really like the writing system, it's so logical

[@sammy3212321]

I love myself a systematic and phonetic writing system, I made one before I knew about IPA and it appears a lot more organic because of it. It ended up evolving in three stages, increasing in space efficiency before reaching a usable state. Oa looks really promising, but I'm not sold on the strict angles and lines in the alphabet, and although I'm all for the base 12 numerical system, are you trying to create perfect linguistic and numerical systems? What would that say about the society that uses it?

[@tofferooni4972]

A perfectionist society that strives to insert logic into everything

[@sirloinofbeef7446]

@@tofferooni4972 So, Vulcans?

[@PlatinumAltaria]

A week ago I was doing exactly the same thing, and my glyphs are markedly similar to yours. Convergent evolution in practice.

[@CBusschaert]

My only question is... would it be natural for a people to create a writing system based on anatomy? I mean, to create a language after some advances in medicine could be done, okay, but to advance in medicine, you need science and scientists, and for them to work efficiently, you need them to be able to write their research papers, right? Don't get me wrong, this system works, as long as there has been other written languages before it, I simply wouldn't believe a "primitive" people (understand a 3000-BC-like people who just started counting their sheeps) could come up with it. Since you start your videos with "let's world build", I assume there is some context, but since you don't give one, I'm just lost in assuming every scenario possible :p

[@nicholasw996]

Hangul is exactly that. A writing system devised based on anatomy to bring science and literature to the masses.

[@CBusschaert]

***** oh it's based on anatomy? I guess I gotta look up some history stresspoints...

[@tuxcup]

Korean immediately pops into my mind. Check out Xidnaf's video (Just be sure to mute the intro).

[@がに-k6n]

Xidnaf's video on Hangul explains it really well

[@CBusschaert]

DP Trumann Yeah I just saw it

[@yongamer]

Channels like this is worthed getting bell notification on.

[@trinity_null]

If your going base 12 then why do you have 13 symbols?

[@trinity_null]

theFizzyNator I say this because you're not supposed to have a glyph for the base your in, that's why we don't have a symbol for ten

[@unleet-e1r]

You're assuming a system with place value like the Hindu-Arabic numeral system we use. If that were the case, you'd be right, since 12 would be written one-zero. But... What I think is happening here is something closer to the Sino-Japanese system, but in base 12. So, 12 would be written [twelve], thirteen would be [twelve-one], 24 would be [two-twelve-zero], 50 would be [four-twelve-two], and so on. Anyway, it's supposed to be based on the Mayan numeral system, so I guess look that up for more info.

[@griffinhaunts5496]

most likely that symbol is zero.

[@notpulverman9660]

0 to 11. 12 digits?

[@notpulverman9660]

Jason D sooo basically you brought an irrelevant number system that nobody here uses into the picture.... only to then admit you know nothing of the RELEVANT number system that nobody uses.... meaning you have nothing to contribute? Why, bro....

[@wonderstruck.]

Glad to see the love for Hangul among conlangers 🥰

[@AshtonSnapp]

Personally I would go top to bottom, left to right.

[@aeaeeaoiauea]

Isn't that exactly what he's doing?

[@keithklassen5320]

@@aeaeeaoiauea For sentences he is, for individual words he... Well, he also is, but each syllable gets broken down. I think OP is saying to make the words all run in a line instead of back and forth syllables.

[@aeaeeaoiauea]

@@keithklassen5320 Then it'd just be a featural alphabet instead of a featural syllabary?

[@dylonix]

I also came out with my own writing system! It's a combination of the English alphabets, the Mandarin and Bahasa grammar, writing forms like Arabian, and it sounds like Thai. Hahahaha. So cool that you also came out with your won writing system too!

[@김민환-b3q]

looks like hangul it has a same base too

[@tanyasellars7492]

Yes he based the system on hangul

[@Alanzice]

Really beatiful writing system, Edgar! Kudos!

[@Artifexian]

Ah, now...it's fugly as hell and I'll not here otherwise. :P

[@izzrainy7410]

Did the punctuation or number system get finished?

[@ZelieZazou]

I can only approve your decision of taking hangul as the main source of inspiration for your writing system (even if no one cares about my approval, but I give it anyway ;p ). Hangul is by far the most simple, efficient and elegant writing system I know. Excellent choice!

[@rebeccacall8554]

One of the things I like to think about when creating conlangs is inclusiveness, or lack thereof. For instance, people who are blind are required to learn the braille alphabet in order to read English. Similarly, the Deaf community uses ASL instead of/alongside English. Do you think the Oa writing system could be understood by people who are blind if the letters were raised, or would you need an Oa braille? Similarly, would it be easy to understand Oa by reading lips if the observer were deaf? Finally, would be language be difficult for people with stutters, or issues with speech due to brain dysfunction/post-stroke? I'd love to get thoughts on this.

[@5amisntlate]

when i saw your letters in the creating a writing system video i was like they remind me of hangeul... glad to see im not crazy lol and i always appreciate people who also nerd out about how awesome hangeul is lol

[@melody_florum]

I think it should be base 16. It would make your language so much easier for computers, as they do base 2, and 16 is 2^4. Plus, Hexadecimal won’t be a thing, it’ll just be numbers.

[@melody_florum]

Plus you are going for a more logical approach, I think base 16 would not only be more logical, but cool too!

[@BramLastname]

Base 16 is already a thing tho

[@hensleydodson5733]

bro's a time traveler

[@lordman5497]

I was creating a writing system, and it works in the same way as this one!

[@iustinianconstantinescu5498]

0:26 Veritasium T-shirt!

[@jamieculkin]

Beautiful! Oa is elegant to me.

[@Gamesaucer]

I have decided on a base 11 number system for my language. Yay for base primes! I'm still working out the kinks in my writing system, though. It's an abugida, but with consonants tacked onto vowels instead of the other way around. It's also a vertical script. The feeling is dawning on me that I've made things quite complicated for myself. Whoops.

[@Gamesaucer]

Nah. I got it all to work out just fine.

[@szlanty]

every fraction: 0.1 = 1/11 0.26???????? REPEATING FEACTIONS ALMOST EVRY WHERE

[@Gamesaucer]

It's ok though. Fractions can be easily measured not only in elevenths, but also in fifths, tenths and fifty-fifths due to how my language handles these numbers. If people want to say a half they'll just ask for five parts of ten. In other words, my language doesn't use undecimals at all. For really precise numbers smaller units of measurement are used instead, if using fractions is too bothersome. Oh, and repeating fractions isn't actually really a problem. It's only a problem if you want to convert to other number systems.

[@szlanty]

Gamesaucer O

[@minewarz]

I just like base 2. It's like the most logical and simple thing you can use. But it would be a bit boring, I like your idea.

[@tearlach47]

I would love it if you could make a community around Oa once it's nearly complete. Maybe you or someone else could even make a font pack for Oa so that we can type Oa. Conlanging is a great art that can be taken in so many different directions, so I love almost every single one I come across.

[@Artifexian]

Yup! I would be totally up for talking/writing in Oa if and when I complete it.

[@tearlach47]

I could make a font pack for Oa on FontStruct easily, but if you want it set up correctly, Hangul style-ish, I could also create an AutoHotKey script and release it as a .exe file to work on computers without AutoHotKey. My script would automatically detect when you're combining certain letters, and turn them into their own solid glyph, meaning the font pack itself would be packed with every possible combination of glyphs. Along with this, you need to find a way to use custom fonts on a website, to have conversations and literary works in Oa.

[@tearlach47]

Oh boy, with the way your writing system blends all of the letters together while creating syllables, I'd have to make it in something _other_ than FontStruct, most likely, if I want your writing system for Oa to still contain all of the features that it has, with all of the stretching and shrinking going on.

[@quinn7894]

0:19 That text says "jo no jo ləv mi, ai no jo kar"

[@mranima748]

You know you love me, I know you care

[@TheAndroidNextDoor]

The idea that your language's writing system can also convey instructions on how to speak it is quite interesting. Imagine how examining an ancient, dead language but the writing system itself explains how it should sound. Something like that would be an interesting idea to play with, at least in a fictional setting. Such a language could be devised as like a form of a Rosetta stone for other languages.

[@enzogamerukbr]

Everyone knows that “doobly-doo” means the description.

[@Archeoscratcher]

I love the writing system very much even sometimes reminding of the mouth system it comes from.

[@essennagerry]

First time here: Uhhh, inspired by the Korean one, I was always thinking of creating an Alphabet inspired by it! ~sees alphabet~ OMG SUBSCRIBED Also, you word things interestingly and the sidebar is intriguing. Looking forward to exploring your content!

[@travisoke4683]

That's cool! Can't wait to see more on it. The only thing would be writing it all out. It wouldn't be as crisp as its shown in the video.

[@Artifexian]

Cursive version is on it's way.

[@olumar]

5:43 Genius

[@davigurgel2040]

I really want to see the video about your number system. I created one there is base 12-60, like 12 as a small base and 60 as the big base. The numbers go up to 6, with the symbols having the numbers of lines or "sticks" of the number, I, V, Y, X, ¥(with only one line) and X crossed by a line. Then, you put a dot at the top of it to 7-11 numbers, from every dozen you add a symbol that represent that dozen (-,+,triangle, square) and then when it reach 60 you add +1 at the left of the numbers and start again, like our system

[@fzeromaster2]

Why does every sound have an "a or ə" in it at the end?

[@gcman201]

fzeromaster2 it’s a linguistic convention to make it obvious which sound you’re articulating, since most consonants can’t really be articulated on their own

[@vanakryptaaphrodisia1435]

I've designed a rune writing with almost 70 glyphs avaliable! each glyph is minimalized so no character will exceed 3 strokes. I achived that by appying the same ascender/descender system that latin letter uses, but the style is basically all RUNIC!

[@Prof_Granpuff]

Phi ratio for the glyphs? Base 12 number system? Will u marry me lmao

[@AshtonSnapp]

Your writing system actually looks very futuristic and clean! If ANYTHING is so ugly as to get the letter "f" attached to the word, it would've the featural writing system I'm making for my conlang, Checkish (that's the English name for it. I'm on my phone so I can't type its name using its own romanization system).

[@Win090949]

4:03 ao trao aort traort

[@rzeka]

I feel like the only person whose not going crazy over Hangul. Personally, the Ge'ez really captures my attention a lot more.

[@Luka1180]

I am studying linguistics too :)

[@AtariGamerProject]

But isn't learning from internet the same thing as studying?

[@Luka1180]

Sávio SG Exactly, it is. If you are studying things on the internet you are still studying @Author Cat Studios-toogletoggleOfTheCats Which is what I'm currently doing as well. Though I do plan on getting a PhD in linguistics at a university :) I wish I could get ones in all other kinds of sciences though, but it would take too many years. I might as well learn other sciences on the side. It shouldn't be impossible to get to PhD level knowledge with other subjects on my own once I properly know what I'm studying...

[@AtariGamerProject]

So, we are 3 :D. But I am not planning to get a PhD.

[@sosasees]

Now I also want to make a featural writing system, but I don't want the glyphs to be changing size, in order to make it much easier to write.

[@ethanmeid5044]

base 12 is amazing

[@kuko-lukas]

yes it is

[@oliverkarehag9883]

Genius. I love the idea of the system. I think it's brilliant way to create a new featureal writing system. I must say it has kind of an alien look to it. And it looks a little bit like if you were to mix Hangul with ge'ez. Love it.

[@Julio974]

And it would be easy to aliens to understand it. The international language should use this writing system, understandable by anyone. A sort of "Engloash"

[@tfan2222]

@@Julio974 ??? This doesn’t even cover HALF of the possible sounds. And tell me, how would you represent a click here?

[@quijybojanklebits8750]

I've never used my teet to speak.

[@Fralther39]

But you just used the word “i’ve”. ‘V’ is created with your lips touching your teet

[@maaderllin]

I just love base twelve. I've decided that it was the base for many of the people of the world I create many years ago already. One of my friend didn't believe elemental arithmetics was possible with it. Lol I showed him, and one hour later he was still toying around, making additions, substractions and multiplication with 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,y,x,10, where y =10, x=11 and 10=12 :P

[@Chantwizzle]

Looks like Hangul. But I mean, this is basically how Hangul was invented.

[@notpulverman9660]

Wrong.

[@gayvideos3808]

He literally said he was inspired by Hangeul

[@servantofaeie1569]

Chantal Said nope, Hangul was taken from 'Phags-pa

[@servantofaeie1569]

@@shkrmkr no, i am right.

[@zozzy4630]

The only problem I can think of is the vowels that aren't accounted for - 1) Short o, as in pop. 2) Short i, as in bit. 3) Long u as in tube. 4) Short "oo," as in book. 5) Putting the letter i before an unvoiced consonant leads to a different vowel sound, "igh," as in like, height, and pipe.

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

What does whanaver mean? I saw that word at the end

[@cod73161]

whenever

[@savagenovelist2983]

The numerical system is literally written in base 4, I love it.

[@FooBarBash]

So you've redone Hangul :'). It looks nice though.

[@notpulverman9660]

This is better than Hangul.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Reminds me pretty much of the Korean Hangul system. Which actually is a great system to base on.

[@asliuf]

SO COOL

[@Artifexian]

Aw! Cheers, buddy. Glad you enjoyed.

[@T3WPL3R]

Just a great choice of picking hangul as a base, im pretty sure i can learn Oa in a day, well, the writing system anyways

[@DracarmenWinterspring]

It looks fairly easily distinguishable in this sort of typed form (and I don't think it's ugly), but have you thought about how handwriting would look in this system? As it looks now, it looks too angular and requiring strokes from very different angles to write out, which would It would make writing it by hand fairly slow. If whatever culture you're ascribing it to is at a point in its history where the majority of the population can read and write, some faster way of writing will have developed which might be a lot less orderly.

[@completeepicness5070]

I agree. When we all write English, how many of us write "r"s with the little pointy thing, or just write it in one stroke. "E"s: Do any of you write it like a backwards three? "n" with the pointys? Same for "p", "u" and "b"? See?

[@tfan2222]

@@completeepicness5070 I know almost no one who writes like that.

[@ishtarmorgonstjarna7497]

Making a language myself, work been in progress for years, I find this writing system amazing. Very creative, can do nothing but applaud it. :D P.S: Oa is not fugly, it is beautiful!

[@coryjackson5481]

jo no jo lǝv mi ai no jo kaɹ text at the beginning what dose it mean artifexian!

[@Artifexian]

You'll have to wait and see. But well spotted.

[@cecasiahaan6801]

Cory Jackson You know you love me,i know you care

[@mr.parabola5051]

"You know you love me, I know your car" The subtitles on that video make it even better.

[@sharmintareque]

Ceca Siahaan BFDI FAN

[@DreamingSpanish]

Congrats! You invented Hangul...

[@ashookkookie-3585]

4:05 it looks alittle bit Korean XD

[@NeetoryuKunRHMN]

it's based around that idea.

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

AShookKookie - 아숰쿠키 tru

[@notpulverman9660]

Neetoryu Kun It's not based on it. It just takes some inspiration from it, since both are attempts to make a highly simplified and logical writing system.

[@mmmmmmok5292]

Ikr!

[@koolkdny]

that’s the point

[@adamkrist-real]

4:59 : and we're still waiting two years later