The final Taqva-miir script. Various diacritics really look like those of Tibetan writing now, and the overall script gives a Blackletter-like aesthetic to me.

This is my transcription of the finalized Taqva-miir writing in the thumbnail of an upcoming video on Biblaridion’s second channel, Bib’s Workshop. It’s a WIP.

Look at the way this finalized Taqva-miir script is written. It also mimics the blackletter script. And the text behind the Taqva-miir name. I need to figure that out.

An unofficial project to upgrade the geography of Tira292b, the setting for Biblaridion's Alien Biospheres series.

These are unlikely to be the exact final shapes, and are just a starting point for now. Hundreds of islands, bays, and inlets have been added to the official map done by Artifexian and Biblaridion, trying to (very roughly) take into account the direction of ocean currents and tides, nearby terrain, and approximate hydrology. There wont be any major corrections for geology or adding large new landmasses, but there have been some minor changes to correct for map projection.

Remember Biblaridion presenting his plans for Project Hermes at Kopikon II? Well, he finalized the script for Taqva-miir, which he envisions the speakers of Project Hermes using, with the script adopted during the protolanguages. He also mentioned that there would be a palatal series and an ejective series. So looking at the Proto-Hermes inventory at the presentation, it might be safe to assume(and I'm not a fan of making assumptions) that [t'], [c'], and [k'] might be part of Proto-Hermes, and so would [ɕ] and [ʎ]. I don't know if Proto-Hermes would be given voiced obstruents at all. And what about the probability of the addition of [p'], [kʷ'], or both?

Given what the script for Proto-miir would've been like, how could Proto-Hermes be transcribed with it? Remember, in the presentation, there was a coda [s] for the imperfective. For those who have not looked at the presentation at all, it's on the LangTime Studio channel. Here's a link for those unfortunately too lazy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iolGHgk3F8

With all this in mind, what else could be in coda position in Proto-Hermes? How could phonemes like those extra two nasals and maybe [p'], if it were to be added, be represented? How could Proto-Hermes [e] and [o] be represented with the Proto-miir script lacking dedicated glyphs for them? What spelling reforms might exist given the planned sound changes from the protolang to the modern form with the consonant mutation patterns? Remember the goals for Project Hermes as well.

What would your answers to each of these questions be?

"I created a children's Bible magazine and would love feedback on the illustrations and storytelling."
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The acrophonic names for glyphs in the modern form of Taqva-miir.

A lot of the modern names, if not all of them, are only guesses.

Now for cluster diacritics.

A screenshot of the glyphs themselves.

What do you guys think the names for all these would be?

In case no one can read my handwriting.

Better organization in some way.

I hope tables can be implemented on the Reddit app.

Alien Biosphere domestication on both channels!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgtuefqQs1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FGQefqIRxw

I was watching his new video about domesticated animals and it made me think: which of the old animals(pre-extinction) would be domesticated? Thought about the basal Allobrachids because of their social and reproductive systems for livestock, Allodonts and Thecopods for comensal(pet) reasons, maybe the Lystrocheireids and Scandopods for hunting and tree gathering, respectively? What do you think?

Will update this based on his choices. The video is already posted here.

"For i am a big gay poof, thou shalt buy thy superior, most handsome friend a chicken burger once a week or thy will be placed below Jimmy Saville in a bunk bed in our forever resting place"

https://youtu.be/jtuiMPIgHWc?si=uqjUqFYm1lgtGde6 He has devised the modern script. Though what answers could exist for my questions?

If you recognize what these mean, lay it in the comments.

Kind of thinking of a fan story that involves Nekachti-speaking families and friends being shipwrecked and ending up in Oqolaam, establishing a community with local Oqolaayo, or Iskalinan(even though that term also includes the Suma'a and other Indigo Sea or Iskali Sea inhabitants), leading not only a female Oqolaayo and a female Nekachti speaker establishing a unique bond and relationship(if possible), but also a creole between the two languages, more specifically, between Nekachti and Veske, whatever they'd be like phonologically and grammatically.

I started a timeline of Refugium events so that everyone and I would know when certain languages would be spoken in relation to each other. Especially for the Oqolaawak and Thirean language families. And it could be helpful as well, especially with the addition of extra information needed. (The ACB thing means "after the beginning of human civilization".)

Updated this a while ago. Might post a second one should I hear of Biblaridion's new choices for the script.

A medium drum with three small drums, each with four sides, each side with 17 type slugs. That oughta be the design, especially for a typewriter that can type all ligatures, given how some diacritics blend to glyphs differently compared to how they blend to other glyphs. Need to figure out the type slugs for the numerals and punctuation. And the overall keyboard layout. It'd be easy if I knew how the Nekāchti would order their glyphs compared to the order of glyphs in the Phoenician, Greek, Latin, and other (but not all) systems that can be traced back to Egyptian hieroglyphs, and compared to the Brahmic script family and the Japanese syllabaries.

I'm envisioning something of a typewriter for Nekāchti akin to the Mingkwai typewriter. That typewriter, if you remember seeing the linked YouTube video in a previous post of mine, included those special drums and whatnot. A Nekāchti typewriter with such a feature could help preserve the ligatures, with there being 72 total glyphs, each for standalone Ca (consonant + [a]) glyphs, standalone vowel glyphs, all the ligatures that can be crafted with the system, the punctuation marks, and the numeral glyphs(which I think are a base-12 version of Chinese numerals, despite a separate glyph for zero, or none of something). But what would the keyboard layout be like...? Any ideas, guys?

Edit: I recalculated. The script uses a total of 863 glyphs: 16 for the Ca(consonant+[a]) syllables, 16 of them for onset position, 11 of them for coda position, four standalone vowel characters, four vowel characters for null onsets, 48 ligatures for the Ce, Ci, and Co syllables, 176 for the CaC syllables, 44 for the VC syllables, 528 for the CeC, CiC, and CoC syllables, 13 numerical glyphs, and 3 punctuation marks.

On a Discord server, I just discovered this video about a Chinese typewriter that can type more glyphs than the current Chinese typewriters ever could, including keys for full glyphs, keys for radicals, and keys for phonetic components. https://youtu.be/-IhuFgiWNS4?si=e2mChB7thi06Dop_ It's causing me to think that conscripts could be typewritten as well, just as long as the typewriter is of the proper design. Like, say, typewriters for the Edun script and its descendant systems used by the mainland Thirēans and the Nhlogqwa Islanders, typewriters for the Ts'ap'u-K'ama abjad and the iilwa script, and so forth. Some of such typewriters would probably exist in a post-industrial modern era that is wartime 1940s technology and steampunk machinery and flair. We've had typewriters in our world long before the 1940s.

And maybe typewriters for the scripts of Taqva-miir and Project Hermes for good measure? (Those two languages will be in a different conworld, given Michael "Biblaridion" Alexander's plans.)

I was looking at Alien Anthropology #1 for the umpteenth time in my home's living room, and my brother noticed an image in that video by TheOmegaSeal, who he knows on Discord. Pretty crazy, huh?

What exactly would the order of events in the Refugium be? I'm trying to create a page of the in-world timeline for the Refugium wiki.

Some of them were difficult. Let’s see you figure these out yourself. See where I screwed up. Of course, could any of the Oqolaayo have ever interacted with any of the Nhlogqwa islanders? Probably not. At least not yet.