Language has always fascinated a few of my close friends and I, and learning new languages together formed close bonds between us. We live in a very conservative area of the US, and we often need to conceal what we say to one another, so we began to create Niji: a natural-ish language with influences in ancient Japanese, ancient Greek, and old French. Our hope is to offer a complete early guide as well as links to learn Niji over the internet.Based in the tree-infested region of North-Eastern Connecticut
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The first full Bulué chart complete with Y, NG, and TSH, 12/19/20
Bulué are individual mora of the Nijiko writing system. Bulué charts help when first learning Niji.
I originally designed them to represent both the mouth shape of the consonant, and of the vowel, with the vowel written visibly as part of the character. But over months of messaging my friends short messages back and forth we quickly found need to both simplify and stylize the characters. We looked to Japanese katakana charts and Ancient Greek words to figure out how to capture the essence of the glyphs we had already created. My friend also suggested a rule of thumb for drawing glyphs, like in Chinese writing, where you have to draw the lines going left to right first, then top to bottom.
The original glyphs were much more curved, some held loop-de-loops and about 23 of them were variations on boxes. To keep the style of these more intricate and annoying models, we replaced a lot of loops with plain circles or ellipses. To keep the full character feel of the older models, I added some boxes and dashes on letters where there was a lot of open space before like the D’s and T’s.
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