Glauxian
The Glauxian alphabet was invented by Sean Skyhawk for use
in a story he has been working for quite a few years. The
story place on a planet called Lemuria, located within the
Andromeda Galaxy, and it is inhabited almost entirely by
anthropomorphic animals. Their civilization is thousands
if not millions of years more advanced than our own, and
the ideas of magic and superhuman abilities is far from
foreign to them.
The Glauxians are the owl people; they can be found almost
all over Lemuria, and even so, consider themselves one people.
The Glauxian script was originally developed by the Tytonid
owls, who were also the first to develop the derivative Tytonid
scripts, and spread to the other races as well. Only recently
has the usage of this script to write the Owlish languages has
begun to decline in favor of the simpler Tytonid, Latin, and
Lemuric systems, though it remains widely used even up to modern
times, especially in calligraphic and liturgical settings.
Inspired by the vertical writing system the owls use in
“Legend of the Guardians”, this script is also modeled partially
off of the classical Mongolian script, and partially off of the
glyphs used in Lemuric and its modern descendant Printed Lemuric.
Each letter has an initial, middle, and final form and the vowels
are based off those in Primal along with those in Slavic/Altaic
languages like Russian and Mongolian, whereas the consonants stem
mostly from Primal, along with other consonants to transcribe other
languages.
Notable features
- Type of writing system: alphabet, partially abugida due to the nature of the vowels, but essentially alphabet
- Direction of writing: Vertical up to down, starting from the left edge of the paper and proceeding to the right
- Can be used to write: English, Lemuric, Glauxian, Primal*
- Reason for invention: Personal use, language used for upcoming story
- Modeled on: Mongolian, Lemuric, and the language the owls use in Legend of the Guardians:
The Owls of Ga’Hoole (snippets of which can be seen in the beginning of
this clip)
