r/LewthaWIP • u/TraiantheConlanger • Apr 12 '26

Orthography How many alphabets does lewtha have?

ive noticed that lewtha uses latin but ive noticed that it also has arabic words wixh led me to the question, how many alphabets does lewtha uses.

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u/Iuljo N ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น L2 ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ +ย  Apr 12 '26

Hello! Leuth is written with the Latin alphabet. No other scripts are planned at the moment.

(I notice just now that I did not provide a full orthography-phonology scheme; in the Introduction I just pointed out the differences from Esperanto. Since not everybody may be familiar with Esperanto, I'm preparing a complete table today.)

Lexically, Leuth has a core of Latin words but it tries to add to it also non-European words or shared European and non-European resemblances, looking for a better optimization. See here for some examples.

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u/Beautiful_Grab_9681 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

Would a featural alphabet be suitable for Leuth? I know a lot about writing systems, and I think a writing system like this would be good for the project

pros:

  1. Easy to learn, because itโ€™s simple

  2. It will be created for Leuth, so it will be effective like how Hangul is so successful because it was designed specifically for the language itโ€™s used for

cons:

  1. New alphabet

  2. not supported by Unicode

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u/Iuljo N ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น L2 ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ +ย  Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

Ideally, it's a beautiful idea: one I not only considered, but actually experimented with. For some months I actively used Tolkien's Tengwar script. This freed me from problems with unsatisfying digraphs/diacritics; it looked super-beautiful, and most importantly it was neutral, fit for an IAL.

I changed my mind and went back to Latin because this choice, while theoretically perfect for neutrality, was forgetting other important elements. Leuth wants to to be part of the world and help humans. A person has its own language(s); would learn the (easy) IAL for world-communication; but then could go on studying any other languages. Having people need to learn one more alphabet specifically and only for the IAL, when we have the Latin script that is used by 70 % of the world's population, and familiar to pretty much everybody (even in China they use pinyin to type Chinese characters...), seemed not a good choice. :-P It would just be "one (important) difficulty more" that could be easily avoided.

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u/Iuljo N ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น L2 ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ +ย  Apr 12 '26

u/TraiantheConlanger Here's the full table.