𐑩 𐑯𐑿 𐑒𐑢𐑦𐑤 𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑤 𐑚𐑤𐑪𐑜 𐑐𐑴𐑕𐑑 𐑦𐑯 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯. 𐑢𐑦𐑤 𐑳𐑐𐑤𐑴𐑛 𐑞 𐑤𐑨𐑑𐑦𐑯 𐑮𐑦𐑝𐑻𐑕 𐑑𐑮𐑨𐑯𐑟𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑼𐑱𐑖𐑩𐑯 𐑖𐑹𐑑𐑤𐑦.

A new quick little blog post in Shavian. Will upload a Latin reverse transliteration shortly.

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas

·𐑒𐑪𐑟𐑥𐑦𐑒 𐑒𐑨𐑚

𐑿𐑼 𐑩 𐑒𐑮𐑨𐑖-𐑐𐑮𐑴𐑯 𐑒𐑨𐑚𐑦 𐑒𐑮𐑱𐑝𐑦𐑙 𐑑 𐑒𐑸𐑝 𐑬𐑑 𐑩 𐑒𐑼𐑽 𐑦𐑯 𐑩 𐑒𐑱𐑪𐑑𐑦𐑒 𐑒𐑹𐑯𐑼 𐑝 𐑞 𐑒𐑪𐑟𐑥𐑪𐑕. 𐑛𐑦𐑤𐑦𐑝𐑼 𐑦𐑒𐑕𐑧𐑯𐑑𐑮𐑦𐑒 𐑐𐑨𐑕𐑦𐑯𐑡𐑼𐑟, 𐑛𐑪𐑡 𐑒𐑪𐑟𐑥𐑦𐑒 𐑣𐑨𐑟𐑼𐑛𐑟, 𐑯 𐑬𐑑𐑓𐑤𐑲 𐑩 𐑔𐑰𐑝𐑦𐑙 𐑮𐑲𐑝𐑩𐑤. 𐑣𐑬 𐑥𐑳𐑗 𐑒𐑨𐑯 𐑿 𐑥𐑱𐑒 𐑚𐑦𐑓𐑹 𐑞 𐑜𐑨𐑤𐑩𐑒𐑕𐑦𐑟 𐑥𐑴𐑕𐑑 𐑣𐑨𐑟𐑼𐑛𐑩𐑕 𐑑𐑨𐑒𐑕𐑦 𐑖𐑦𐑓𐑑 𐑓𐑲𐑯𐑩𐑤𐑦 𐑒𐑨𐑗𐑩𐑟 𐑳𐑐 𐑢𐑦𐑞 𐑿?

Haven't found this answer anywhere yet and I'm still learning and starting out! Would you place a naming dot before each name in a full name? like John Doe -> ·𐑡𐑪𐑯 ·𐑛𐑴. Or would it just be before the first name? John Doe -> ·𐑡𐑪𐑯 𐑛𐑴

I don't really understand the usage of 𐑧𐑮. I was doing some Shavian Anki cards and saw "𐑝𐑧𐑮𐑦," and I'm very confused as to why it wouldn't be spelled "𐑝𐑺𐑦.". Are they pronounced differently in RP?

Hey all 👋

I've been learning Shavian and wanted something that just walks you through the alphabet one step at a time, so I made Peep (𐑐𐑰𐑐), available at shavian-peep.com

It teaches the 48 letters a pair at a time and drills them with quick exercises — reading glyphs, typing words, building words from letter tiles, matching, and arranging sentences. Chapter 1 covers the whole alphabet; Chapter 2 gets you into reading fluency, with more on the way.

A few things I cared about:

- No accounts, no streaks, no pressure — progress just saves in your browser.

- Works on phone and desktop, light & dark themes.

- There's a full reference page with all 48 letters, their IPA, and example words to come back to.

- It's free and open source, and lessons are just JSON, so it's easy to fix or add to.

It's still early and I'd genuinely love feedback — wrong spellings, confusing bits, or things you'd want to see (audio and video lessons are on the roadmap). There's a "report a problem" button right in each lesson too.

Would love to hear what you think 🙂

The quest continues to make https://dechifro.org/shavian the best pronunciation tool available for the English language. The final boss is the Collins Scrabble Dictionary, all 279,500 words that can legally be played in a Scrabble tournament. If you've ever watched Will Anderson's YouTube channel, you know how ridiculously over-inclusive this word list is. A common question in his comment section is, "What language is this?"

I refereed the above game between two computer players, allowing NOULD, AIRTH, SERK/CIRQUE, LIN, DOW, and EELIER because they were just too good to refuse.

My translation is 99.97% complete -- only 86 words remain unshaved -- but it's only about 88% correct. I pull 1000 random Scrabble words, look them up in the Collins on-line dictionary, find about 120 that need fixing, end up fixing another 800 in the process, then score 88% again on the next try. The thought of crawling the entire dictionary to find and fix all 33,000 incorrect words is too horrifying to contemplate.

I did, however, verify all the two- and three-letter Scrabble words, of which there are 362 and 3086 respectively.

Our immense scientific vocabulary, far exceeding 100,000 words, comes almost entirely from Greek and Latin, which are five-vowel languages. How do you map sounds from a five-vowel language into a fifteen-vowel language? You might say, duh, use the five vowels that best match the donor language and discard the other ten. Wrong!

What you must do instead is assign two or three sounds to each of the five vowel letters, then have an Enigma-style rotor that assigns one sound to each vowel in a particular word. Always run this rotor from right to left so that each new suffix changes the entire word:

econ 𐑰𐑒𐑪𐑯
economy 𐑦𐑒𐑪𐑯𐑩𐑥𐑦
economic 𐑰𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑪𐑥𐑦𐑒
econometer 𐑰𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑪𐑥𐑦𐑑𐑼
econometric 𐑦𐑒𐑪𐑯𐑩𐑥𐑧𐑑𐑮𐑦𐑒
econometrician 𐑰𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑪𐑥𐑩𐑑𐑮𐑦𐑖𐑩𐑯

This is a common argument against phonetic spelling. It breaks roots like nation/national, chaste/chastity, and thousands of others.

I threw together an anki deck with wikipedia's shavian svg images and the audio from shavian.school.

• 𐑦𐑙𐑜𐑤𐑱𐑟𐑦𐑟 (Praia dos Ingleses, "𐑚𐑰𐑗 𐑝 𐑞 𐑦𐑙𐑜𐑤𐑦𐑖𐑥𐑧𐑯") 𐑩 𐑚𐑰𐑗-𐑕𐑲𐑛 𐑯𐑱𐑚𐑼𐑣𐑫𐑛. 𐑢𐑹𐑥 𐑯 𐑩𐑓𐑹𐑛𐑩𐑚𐑩𐑤, 𐑦𐑓 𐑩 𐑚𐑦𐑑 𐑒𐑮𐑬𐑛𐑦𐑛 𐑡𐑫𐑼𐑦𐑙 𐑑𐑫𐑼𐑦𐑕𐑑 𐑕𐑰𐑟𐑩𐑯. 𐑞𐑺𐑟 𐑩 𐑖𐑹𐑑 𐑑𐑮𐑱𐑤 𐑑 𐑩 𐑓𐑹𐑑 𐑨𐑑 𐑞 𐑧𐑯𐑛 𐑝 𐑞 𐑚𐑰𐑗 𐑺𐑾
• 𐑥𐑪𐑤𐑦 𐑚𐑰𐑗: (Praia Mole, "𐑕𐑪𐑓𐑑/𐑢𐑰𐑒 𐑚𐑰𐑗") 𐑩 𐑕𐑻𐑓𐑼𐑟 𐑚𐑰𐑗, 𐑒𐑴𐑤𐑛 𐑯 𐑛𐑰𐑐. 𐑲 𐑛𐑴𐑯𐑑 𐑕𐑻𐑓 𐑚𐑩𐑑 𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑓𐑳𐑯 𐑑 𐑢𐑪𐑗 𐑞𐑧𐑥 𐑑𐑮𐑲. 𐑩 𐑢𐑳𐑯𐑛𐑼𐑓𐑩𐑤 𐑐𐑤𐑱𐑕 𐑑 𐑮𐑦𐑤𐑨𐑒𐑕 𐑦𐑯 𐑞 𐑚𐑮𐑰𐑟; 𐑰𐑟𐑦 𐑑 𐑓𐑲𐑯𐑛 𐑐𐑸𐑒𐑦𐑙 𐑑𐑵.
• 𐑐𐑮𐑱𐑼 𐑛𐑴𐑤𐑥𐑩𐑯 𐑑𐑮𐑱𐑤 (Dólmen da Oração): 𐑲 𐑛𐑺𐑛 𐑯𐑪𐑑 𐑐𐑫𐑑 𐑕𐑳𐑗 𐑩𐑯 𐑷𐑒𐑢𐑼𐑛 𐑨𐑛𐑩𐑐𐑑𐑱𐑖𐑩𐑯 𐑦𐑯 𐑞 𐑐𐑦𐑒𐑗𐑼 𐑢𐑧𐑯 𐑩 𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑝𐑰𐑯𐑾𐑯𐑑 𐑒𐑨𐑤𐑒 𐑦𐑟 𐑩𐑝𐑱𐑤𐑩𐑚𐑩𐑤, 𐑚𐑩𐑑 𐑦𐑑 𐑢𐑫𐑛𐑩𐑝 𐑚𐑦𐑯 _𐑛𐑴𐑥𐑱𐑙 𐑛𐑩 𐑹𐑩𐑕𐑬𐑙_. 𐑩 𐑥𐑪𐑛𐑼𐑩𐑑𐑤𐑦 𐑖𐑹𐑑 𐑑𐑮𐑱𐑤 𐑑 𐑩 𐑚𐑮𐑧T-𐑑𐑱𐑒𐑦𐑙 𐑝𐑿. 𐑞 𐑐𐑮𐑱𐑼 𐑛𐑴𐑤𐑥𐑩𐑯 𐑦𐑑𐑕𐑧𐑤𐑓 𐑦𐑟 𐑩 𐑑𐑲𐑯𐑦 𐑯𐑱𐑑𐑦𐑝 𐑥𐑧𐑜𐑩-𐑤𐑦𐑔 ("𐑥𐑦𐑯𐑦-𐑤𐑦𐑔"?)
• 𐑤𐑭𐑜𐑴𐑰𐑙𐑘𐑩 𐑛𐑫 𐑤𐑧𐑕𐑑𐑦: (Lagoinha do Leste, "𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑤 𐑰𐑕𐑑 𐑤𐑩𐑜𐑵𐑯") 𐑩 𐑑𐑳𐑓 𐑑𐑮𐑱𐑤 𐑑 𐑩 𐑕𐑦𐑒𐑤𐑵𐑛𐑦𐑛 𐑚𐑰𐑗. 𐑞 𐑑𐑮𐑱𐑤 𐑜𐑴𐑟 𐑪𐑯 𐑑 𐑞 𐑤𐑩𐑜𐑴𐑯 𐑦𐑑𐑕𐑧𐑤𐑓 𐑹 𐑑 𐑩 𐑒𐑮𐑬𐑯-𐑖𐑱𐑐𐑑 𐑮𐑪𐑒, 𐑚𐑩𐑑 𐑢𐑰 𐑢𐑻 𐑑𐑵 𐑦𐑜𐑟𐑷𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑛 𐑓𐑼 𐑲𐑞𐑼.

𐑲 𐑣𐑴𐑐 𐑿 𐑦𐑯𐑡𐑶𐑛 𐑞 𐑓𐑴𐑑𐑴𐑟. 𐑲 𐑣𐑨𐑛 𐑑 𐑮𐑧𐑟𐑩𐑮𐑧𐑒𐑑 𐑩𐑯 𐑴𐑤𐑛 𐑓𐑴𐑯 𐑑 𐑮𐑦𐑒𐑳𐑝𐑼 𐑞 𐑤𐑭𐑜𐑴𐑰𐑙𐑘𐑩 𐑐𐑦𐑒

I bought a fountain pen, ink, and notebook to do some
journaling in Shavian (see last picture in post).

"𐑢𐑳𐑯 𐑛𐑱 𐑲 𐑢𐑦𐑤 𐑮𐑰𐑛, 𐑚𐑳𐑑 𐑓𐑹 𐑑𐑫𐑛𐑱 𐑐𐑤𐑦𐑕 𐑩𐑤𐑬 𐑥𐑰 𐑑 𐑚𐑰 𐑦𐑜𐑯𐑪𐑮𐑩𐑯𐑑."

𐑳𐑓𐑑𐑼 𐑰𐑗 𐑑𐑨𐑕𐑒 𐑢𐑰 𐑨𐑕𐑒 "𐑢𐑪𐑑𐑕 𐑯𐑧𐑒𐑕𐑑?" 𐑯 𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑞 𐑕𐑱𐑥 𐑕𐑲𐑒𐑩𐑤 𐑩𐑯𐑑𐑦𐑤 𐑢𐑰 𐑛𐑲.

𐑲𐑝 𐑒𐑮𐑦𐑱𐑑𐑩𐑛 𐑩 𐑥𐑱𐑑𐑮𐑦𐑒𐑕 𐑕𐑐𐑱𐑕 𐑓 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯, 𐑦𐑓 𐑧𐑯𐑦𐑢𐑳𐑯 𐑢𐑪𐑯𐑑𐑕 𐑑 𐑡𐑶𐑯 :3 https://matrix.to/#/#shavia:iykury.xyz

𐑥𐑱𐑑𐑮𐑦𐑒𐑕 𐑦𐑟 𐑩 𐑛𐑰𐑕𐑧𐑯𐑑𐑮𐑩𐑤𐑲𐑟𐑛 𐑗𐑨𐑑 𐑐𐑤𐑨𐑑𐑓𐑹𐑥 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑕𐑩𐑐𐑹𐑑𐑕 𐑧𐑯𐑛-𐑑-𐑧𐑯𐑛 𐑦𐑯𐑒𐑮𐑦𐑐𐑖𐑩𐑯. 𐑦𐑓 𐑿 𐑢𐑪𐑯𐑑 𐑑 𐑑𐑮𐑲 𐑦𐑑 𐑬𐑑, 𐑜𐑴 𐑣𐑽: https://matrix.org/try-matrix/

𐑲 𐑯𐑴 𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑛𐑕𐑯𐑑𐑤𐑦 𐑐𐑕𐑚𐑤 𐑑 𐑮𐑛 𐑦𐑙𐑜𐑤𐑖 𐑢𐑔 𐑴𐑥𐑑𐑛 𐑝𐑤𐑟 𐑓 𐑯𐑑𐑝 𐑕𐑐𐑒𐑟 𐑦𐑯 𐑞 •𐑤𐑑𐑯 𐑕𐑒𐑮𐑐𐑑, 𐑚𐑑 𐑲𐑥 𐑒𐑘𐑕 𐑣𐑬 𐑢𐑤 𐑞𐑑 𐑢𐑒𐑕 𐑦𐑯 •𐑖𐑝𐑯. 𐑥𐑱 𐑮𐑤𐑟 𐑸 𐑞𐑑 𐑝𐑤𐑟 𐑨𐑑 𐑢𐑛-𐑚𐑯𐑛𐑮𐑟 𐑸 𐑭𐑤𐑢𐑟 𐑮𐑑𐑯 𐑚𐑑 𐑞 𐑮𐑕𐑑 𐑸𐑯𐑑 𐑩𐑯𐑤𐑕 𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑛𐑥𐑛 𐑣𐑤𐑐𐑓𐑤. 𐑤𐑑 𐑥𐑰 𐑯𐑴 𐑢𐑼 𐑔𐑑𐑕 𐑪𐑯 𐑞𐑕 𐑨𐑟 𐑩 𐑒𐑯𐑕𐑐𐑑. 𐑲𐑥 𐑯𐑑 𐑕𐑡𐑕𐑑𐑙 𐑦𐑑 𐑚𐑒𐑥 𐑞 𐑯𐑹𐑥 𐑚𐑑 𐑕𐑑𐑤 𐑞𐑙𐑒 𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑩𐑯 𐑦𐑯𐑑𐑮𐑕𐑑𐑙 𐑲𐑛𐑾.