Description

Note: this system has been replaced by the newer, more iconographic syllabic form. This page is kept as an archive of the development of Bridgian Phonetics.

The Bridgian writing-system (from now on referred to as “syllabic form”) is a way of writing Bridgian-language text using lines on a grid. It is not strictly syllabic – some syllables may require multiple grids – but may be essentially be thought of as such due to its usage.

Lines are drawn between each letter in a morpheme – that is, a collection of sounds that means something; a prefix, suffix, or root word – with special overlays being used for the first letter, accented letters, and the “circled grid”.

Layout

Below are shown the grid-layouts used in syllabic form:

Overlays:

• The first letter in a grid has a small filled circle (usually half the size of the grid-circle) on its position in the grid. Sometimes this will be the only letter in the grid, in which case only the circle will be seen with no lines.
• Accented letters have an equilateral triangle (within the grid-circle, if applicable; horizontal base) around the usual letter's position.
• To access the “circled grid”, a circle is put around the position of the letter in the normal grid.

There are also specific lines put between grids to indicate word-level syntax. Punctuation (like commas, brackets, dashes, et cetera) is not yet supported; a future update can [not!] be expected to fix this. This is shown below, with the phrase ‘Bycbeys nɐdoyda’:

Examples

Sal vey Bycbeys-sa
Translation: Hello Bridgian people

Bycbeys vıs vyda ghɐy
Translation: Bridge Base is against the northern land(s)

Bycbeys-sa vey bhey þensa evenden
Translation: Bridge Base's members destroy its plantlife

Yw ghan ýv́ǝn rɐydh vǝnedhısɐyśd Iɔglıc þ́ıs wey
Translation: You can even write phoneticised English this way