Scrippenday

Fast Facts

Writing System Type: logography

Reading/Writing Direction: left-to-right, top-to-bottom

Word Spacing: none

Featural Script: no

System Overview

Scrippenday, derived from the Latin scriptio dei (script of God), is a partial-language logography that represents virtually all English function words.  

Scrippenday's character construction strategies are somewhat different than the average logography, with a minimal focus on radicals and more on ease of writing. This choice was made so that the majority of the characters would be as fast and simple to write as possible. Additionally, diacritics are used far less in the script, which, paired with Altic's modifier-heavy system, helps keep written passages aesthetically pleasing. 

One way that Scrippenday characters were constructed is through creating a ligature of the equivalent Altic word. Oftentimes, simplifying a character like this leads to elimination of voicing marks and conversion of vowel diacritics to curves. This is how very common words received their forms, such as <of>, <the>, and <and> below.

More similarly to natural logographies, however, some characters began as pictographs or ideographs, such as <ma'am>, <let>, and < through>:

Dictionary

With 264 unique characters and diacritics, Scrippenday's entirety cannot be placed in this article. A separate dictionary, separated by word category and alphabetized, has been provided for convenience's sake.

Scrippenday Dictionary Site

NOTE: When looking up a word, make sure that it is a very commonly used, non-lexical one. The word "rainbow" will not have a character, but "inside" will.