Cylenian Script (Nðuron Kyleðr)

The Cylenian script, or Nðuron Kyleðr, is an alphabet used to write the Insular Cylenian language, a language part of the Cyleno-Nagaskian language family that is spoken by around 1.5 million people in the fictional country of Cylene. The country lies on the northwest peninsula of the island Borealia, which is an island in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. The script has been created by Danae Dekker in 2013, and has gone to several iterations until it landed in its current form in 2020. However, the essence of the script has remained the same over the years, keeping its round shapes and partly featural characteristics.

In its internal history, the Cylenian script is the evolution of the ancient Syrrin script that was created by the Carthiskian priestess and linguist Telsin around 0 CE. Dissatisfied with the old Carthiskian logography, she devised a script where the glyphs were based on phonemes rather than words and used it to write her comments on the Cylenian cosmogony and mythology, which are the primary liturgical works in the cylenist religion. The contemporary Cylenian script came to existence in the 17th century as a standardized from of centuries of evolution of the languages and manuscripts that was used in the printing press, and is still used in the modern age.

Notable features

Type of writing system: alphabet
Written from left to right in horizontal lines.
Used to write: Insular Cylenian and a handful of Cyleno-Nagaskian dialects.
The script has characteristic round letters due to the fact that early manuscripts were written on parchment.
Most consonant glyphs encode their place and manner of articulation, e.g. a voiced consonant is always indicated by a long vertical stroke, and a fricative is indicated by a ring or dot above a glyph.
Cylenian numbers use a mixed base-30 system to count up to thirty, and uses the same numerals preceded by a special marker to further count up to 60.
The script is encoded in the Under-ConScript Unicode Registry at code points EC00-EC2F. Several UCSUR compatible fonts, such as Fairfax and Unifont, have support for the Cylenian script.

Cylenian script

Download a script chart for Cylenian (Excel)
Download a Cylenian font

Sample text

Sample text in Cylenian

Transliteration

Lori te wþ svaeriþ gynane eðr, te annda, ae Ileðe y ae Kylenya. Te eða loða ena, orne ðy Kyll ile liðiliþ liðeniþ, aeða kanna i oren ðan danaeða'an, ke te Ileþ ila nðuule bere yþ igulne, aeða kanna e oren ðan maraða'an. Ne iremi loði ena e kamiseðul inte.

Translation

Earth as we know it and its surroundings, the universe, are arisen from Ileth and Cyll. Everyone knows them, because Cyll is the shining star we see every day and Ileth is the dark, mysterious sky we see every night. However, they weren't always known in this appearance.
(Danae, About the Creation I)

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