Writing in pictogram glyphs. [added gen1 alphabet]

Meadows's picture


If anyone's interested I can put together alphabets for 2nd and 3rdgen glyphs~
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Um, I had an idea to make a mask and/or antlers based off pictograms? Haven't yet, but I was thinking about designing concepts in the spirit of the game and pictograms really are a huge part of that, and I was thinking about how the glyphs that make up pictos have their own letters/numbers that correspond to each one. And I wanted to try to assemble some sort of message, TEF being the obvious choice, in the 'language' of the forest to inscribe on the set pieces. So I downloaded Aivilo's pictogram builders.

I haven't gone thoroughly through every frame, but in general it seems that for every letter of the alphabet there are two different glyphs in each generation. And each generation can be like it's own dialect. So I combined the two glyphs for each letter, and interlocked the other letters in a diagonal formation to create words:



Translations and which gen each word belongs to:



Not sure how accurate it is in theory, like I might have gotten some of the positions wrong because I didn't completely take into account glyphs that are the same just in a different location. I also know it doesn't fit with everyone's views of pictograms, for instance people who consider their characters names and their pictos to be the same, just translated, or those who like that idea that TEF deer speak an entirely different language. But I did think it was pretty neat and works well enough to form actual readable sentences that I would share for you guys to play around with =)
Ebony3's picture

That's very cool!

That's very cool!
Oh, I'm just a girl, trying to find a place in this world.
Aivilo's picture

Ah, really neat o3o Glad to

Ah, really neat o3o Glad to see those builders put to use in a creative way~
Firefli's picture

Totally enthralled by this,

Totally enthralled by this, love to see more! c:
Osmotious's picture

Very cool!!!

Very cool!!!
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Meadows's picture

Ebony3: Thank you, I thought

Ebony3: Thank you, I thought so too c=

Aivilo: They were really useful! =)

Firefli: Thank you, I'll probably translate some other things and post them here ^_^

osmotious: Thank very much C=

WonderfullySarcastic's picture

Ooh! Neat! Too late to read

Ooh! Neat! Too late to read this thoroughly, so definitely giving this another look in the morning.
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Meadows's picture

So pleased to see that it has

So pleased to see that it has caught your interest c:
SoliloquyChryseis's picture

Wowww this is awesome!!

Wowww this is awesome!Exclaim!
Meadows's picture

Thank you! =D

Thank you! =D
Mjrn's picture

Tracking very hard. I love

Tracking very hard. I love things like these.
Account previously Mjrn, returned to Veedeer.
Meadows's picture

Mm thank you, I do too, it's

Mm thank you, I do too, it's always fascinated me whenever people start talking about pictograms and forest lore.

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