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The Hylian alphabet and writing in EnglishAs you may know by now, the alphabets which I have altered for use with the Hylian Language Project are a combination of singular and syllable letters. This gets mistaken a lot as being upper and lowercase however so I'd like to make an effort to explain a bit more how the alphabet works, and further, how to properly use it when writing in English.
First, if you haven't familiarized yourself with the alphabet, please take a moment to look over the Hylian Language lesson 1, found here:

This can get a little bit confusing when writing in English because of a few extra letters which are dependent on pronunciation. Namely the two different characters for I, the two R's, and the lack of a letter x.
The first i in Hylian looks kind of like a box with a lid. This is the long i, and in English can be used in words like "link" or "sing" as stated in the lesson. The "short I" is used in most English words which contain an I, such as "his", "it" or "with" as stated in the lesson,

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Hylian Language Lesson 01 - The Alphabetby *Sarinilli

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This is something I've been thinking of doing for a while. Even though I am very busy working on the language as a whole, some words, phrases and concepts haven't really changed or are finished enough to share.

These lessons are to help teach people how to read, write, and even speak the Hylian language.

This first lesson is just a quick rundown on the basic pronunciation of the letters to help get everyone started off.

These lessons are to help teach people how to read, write, and especially speak the Hylian language.

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love 3 3

joy 3 3

wow 1 1

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~MUS1C-H4S-COLORS Mar 16, 2013 New member

Ummmmm, first I'd just like to say that this is absolutely amazing. Second, I was wondering if I might be able to ask a question about translating English phrases into Hylian?

*Sarinilli Mar 16, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

Go ahead and ask if you want- just so you know though, the vocabulary and sentence structure for Hylian will come later when I finally have the time to work on these lessons again (been so swamped with life and projects the last while @_@).

If it's about writing English in the Hylian alphabet, I can easily explain anything you're not clear on. ^_^

~MUS1C-H4S-COLORS Mar 16, 2013 New member

Yes, It's a question about writing. I just want to make sure I'm doing it right. When i translate words into Hylian, should I write based on the roman counterpart for the Hylian text? Or should it translate using the pronunciation?

*Sarinilli Mar 16, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

Ok so you're talking how to properly write English. It's sort of a combination of both. For the most part you can just get away with writing things letter-for-letter and use the singular characters. There are some important exceptions to this however, namely with the two different "i" characters. Those are specifically pronunciation oriented and important to remember when writing in English. The y can be more diverse when used for English, just remember that if it was pronounced like a Hylia word, for example, "diverse" would be spelled "dyvers" to get the right sounds.

The last one that I need to point out is entirely pronunciation based since Hylian has no letter x. For any words with x, just replace it with "ks" to get the sound. It will look a little strange when transliterating back into the Roman alphabet but that's where you just replace the correct letter again. In a way it's kind of similar to how writing English in Japanese Katakana works.

I hope that helps! Oh, and the syllable characters when used in English work the same- if it's a personal or character name or such, just pick your spelling and stick with it, but words with the syllable combinations can be written with or without them. :3

~MUS1C-H4S-COLORS Mar 17, 2013 New member

That helps a lot actually ^-^ Thank you, I just wanted to make sure I had the spelling correct before I get it tattooed on my body haha

*Sarinilli Mar 17, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

haha You can always run it past me vis notes or something if you want to be extra sure. :3

~Gatreh Feb 28, 2013

Wow, Just started learning this and I realised there is no X, anyways get on lession 4, I don't want to catch up until its finished XD
Keep up the good work!

*Sarinilli Feb 28, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

Nope, there's not. There's a trick to substituting it for English, you use "ks" instead. I'll probably do some sub-lessons on how to use Hylian for English properly later on. :3
And thanks! I still have a long way to go getting these lessons out and there'll be a lot to come. Hopefully I can get them worked on soon. Life's been keeping me so busy that it's hard to do everything at once.

~ChaosMiles07 Feb 4, 2013

Looks like I'm not the only person that uses IPA when making other writing systems! Props!

*Sarinilli Feb 5, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

IPA saves SO much confusion down the line. I didn't used to use it, and look back at my past work now and think...how did I ever figure? Haha

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