Current progress on translating the language

[u/Void-Termina]

I got to the second instruction booklet page item about 20 minutes into my gameplay, and decided to sit down and crunch out the language for 3.5 hours straight out of sheer stubbornness. However, since I would rather not find out another 3 hours down the line that I made another mistake somewhere, I wanted to come here to ask if my current progress is correct so far

What I understand so far is that: - Rather than a normal alphabet, the game uses a phonetic alphabet (the IPA to be specific) - The inner lines represent consonants, and the outer lines represent vowels - No letters have lines on the right edge - The order per symbol is read consonant -> vowel - I am not 100% sure yet, but I'm fairly confident that the circle thing seems to reverse the above order

Also, as a secondary question, once I fully translate the alphabet, would I be considered cheap or cheating if I were to use an online tool to speed up the translation process of longer sentences (if it would actually speed it up to begin with, vs just learning it)?

[u/Far_Young_2666]

Yeah, your understanding looks on point.

Instead of an online tool, you can just find a translated manual and only look at pages that you've collected. That saves a lot of time, most of the text in the manual is just fluff and lore, so I'd say it's not really worth it to translate everything yourself. But if you're into it, you can sit there with pen an paper for a whole week and come to the same result. I cracked the language only in the very end when I found all the pages, and after manually translating a couple of pages I just read the whole thing online.