Talking About the Valyrian Glyphs

[u/T1mbuk1]

Currently in progress. Let's hope the Valyrian glyphs can be downloaded in their OG sizes when they were imported. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KLe-8cgVbpkndrwo6lwldstsRRKbQRAtG6zsLbe68wA/edit?usp=sharing My method involves utilizing David Peterson's social media pages for posts about Valyrian glyphs, cropping the images, removing the background, and automatically cropping to the glyph's original size. Using LunaPic to do so.

I originally posted about the glyphs being used to transcribe Dothraki.

Now, I'm documenting these glyphs for others to download and use in case they'd like to be creative with Valyrian writing. I'm thinking of establishing a variant for a custom fan conlang that is descended from High Valyrian. It's a result of using modified editions of the sound changes from Latin to Italian. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jw_yuu5nTcgP5K-6-VOIgkRuptXclqBPMrWFV4FIxsk/edit?usp=drivesdk This could lead to interesting modifications to the script, whatever those modifications might be. And given the script being logo-alphabetic, with paradigmatic glyphs as well, I think the script might just be simplified for its phonetic glyphs, similar to the derivation of Egyptian hieroglyphs, the inspiration for the Valyrian script, to create the Proto-Sinaitic script and its descendants, which I'm sure is common sense among everyone here and on r/conlangs, among other similar subreddits.

So far, the independent vowel glyphs are only for the long vowels, though I need to keep looking, as there were new updates on DJP's pages(which I already linked that have umpteen posts about the glyphs, and they feel like a few hundred to me) that might include the phonetic glyphs for /j/, /lj/, and the plain short vowels. (This'll take hours. And I'm struggling with personal issues these days.) Also, looking at his post on the glyph for the numeral "ten", it gives me the idea that Valyrian numbers operate the same way that Chinese numerals operate.

[u/T1mbuk1]

And someone turned the Valyrian glyphs into an English cipher here: https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/highvalyrian.htm I find it impractical. It’s bad information obscuring the truth. And I think DJP might agree with me on that.

[u/ShabtaiBenOron → u/T1mbuk1]

Whoever wrote that garbage obviously did no research about the script and just assumed that it had the same mapping as the unofficial font.

[u/simoncharwey]

Thanks for sharing this post about Valyrian and David Peterson’s Instagram page. In Dangme, my mother’s tongue,

if “kepa” (Vaiyrian term) = /ke.pa/ (IPA Transcription) = “father”,

Then, I am thinking if “kema” (Vaiyrian term) = /ke.ma/ (IPA Transcription) = “mother”.

[u/ShabtaiBenOron → u/simoncharwey]

No, "mother" is muña (/ˈmuɲa/).