qosta

qosta is a writing system created by Adam Heurlin (aka Arimah Šaretésia Néotsánia) in early 2006 for his constructed language of the same name. The language is part of Adam's fictional world, where it is spoken by a race of reptilian creatures.

Notable features

Written in horizontal lines from left to right.
qosta is an abugida, where every consonant has the inherent vowel sound [a]. Consonants are modified by diacritics to change this vowel sound.
There is also a vowel holder, used for words that begin in a vowel (or diphthong).
The Latin transcription uses only lowercase letters.

qosta alphabet

Sample text in qosta

Transliteration

aumei esû la-qeltu gitunûso ake heki fotû qostu la-lehutampi peltago te esû naku âmito.

Translation

The day a single language covers our world, I will be without happiness.

Download a qosta font (TrueType format, 43K)

Download a chart of the qosta alphabet (Excel format, 6K)

Link

Further information about the qosta language
http://arimah.beoch.net/conlangs/qosta

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