GLYPHS OF SALOREM

Glyphs for Rasai and Cardinian.

Salorem is a personal project where I put all my characters together. Since it's not quite Earth, I put it upon myself to develop writing systems for the various countries on the planet.

archaen rasai

Archaen Rasai

Archaen Rasai is based off the idea that we can read the Latin alphabet when the bottom half is missing. This is relevant to the story of Rasiak, as half of it fell to the ocean after its civil war.

Glyph overview for Archaen Rasai.

sungan rasai

Sungan Rasai

Sungan Rasai is based off lowercase Latin alphabet, and it's a variation of Archaen Rasai. All counters become triangular and rounded strokes become angular. Certain things like "w" and "m" are interpreted as "double u" and "double n", represented by a single extra stroke.

Glyph development for Sungan Rasai.

cardinian

Cardinian

Cardinian is intended to be written in Spanish. I assigned numbers to the Latin alphabet (including "ñ") and combined them into a single brush stroke. 1–9 is written as 01–09 to make it consistent.

Glyph development for Cardinian.

The extra strokes attached to the sides represent the amount of syllables they have per letter (| = 1, |• = 2), and the position derives from how many connection points there are from the letters themselves. This is a reference to cardinal directions.

Glyph development for Cardinian.

EXAMPLES IN CONTEXT

An illustration of two kids. The dialogue goes as follows:

W: Rai!! Do you want to go to park with me? I go on weekend!
R: L-Let me ask my dad first
W: Ok! We going to have a lot of fun!
R: (Why is he always yelling...)
An illustration of two men talking. The text reads:

W - Can you get me a towel, <love?>
R - Here. (Does he know that I understand some Cardinian phrases...)
Five people thinking "Wow, these people are so weird. Thank gods I'm the only normal person here." written in glyphs.
"Uh... thanks." written in glyphs.
"Excuse me. Photography isn't allowed indoors." written in glyphs, spoken by an illustration of a young man.
"I'm... sorry. I just wanted to get to know you." written in glyphs.
"I love you" written in glyphs.
"Foreigner" written in glyphs.
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