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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 03 - Time 01by *Sarinilli

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I've reuploaded lesson 3 since 1 and 2 are both finally up. Sorry for putting things out of order before! I'll try not to do that again. ^~

Next up is Time 02! How to actually tell time in Hylian! Here's hoping it doesn't take another couple of months for me to get it done! haha

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~PinkCupcakeAddict Apr 8, 2013 Student General Artist

More lessons please! These are very helpful! i am considering using one of your zelda fonts for a epic zelda project of mine.

lol I would totally hate to ask you to help try and translate my legend Im making... yeah this whole concept is huge so its a epic zelda project.

Im doing this cover my poor blank naked dorm room wall as i just started art school.

*Sarinilli Apr 8, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

I have a lot of real life stuff taking up ALL my time right now, so it'll be a little while before I can get to the next lesson. Sorry! I wish I could get them done faster but when I have deadlines and a lot to do that has to come first. Soon as I have time to set aside for language work though I'll get right on it! ^_^

*Rheshu Mar 22, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

So HOW to say the words are in Roman?

*Sarinilli Mar 25, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

You mean how to pronounce them? For now the best way is to refer to lesson 1 for that, but I realize I'm going to have to make some videos to help with that at some point too.

~guncraze Mar 6, 2013

Very interesting about the "six days a week" thing, though I don't remember that in any of the games. Was that something Nintendo said, or am I just ignorant?

*Sarinilli Mar 6, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

Some of the information has to do with things that just make more sense to me or feel right. It is taken from things the games which inspired me, but it's not actually official canon nor ever directly stated.

This one in particular I based on the Three Golden Goddesses as well as the Goddess of Time and the Fierce Deity (who I've for a LONG time believed was the ancient god of fate (it makes sense, but that's another story)) so that makes 5 deities.. so one day each, and a sixth to celebrate for them all, like the weekend.

Also if Hyrule is more likely an alien planet, it's bound to work differently and in the old days when I was inventing my timelines and "fanverse" concept this sounded like a great way to set a difference between Hyrule and Earth. Change up the time a bit and base it on suggested myth in the games.

On my old site, the fanverse info like that and the language work it's self tied together with the site to give off a surreal sort of feeling and draw you into it, in a manner of speaking. :3

~guncraze Mar 6, 2013

Okay. Thanks!

*Sarinilli Mar 6, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

You're welcome! I may have to try and better explain that outside the lessons some time so people know what's going on. I hadn't thought about that, so thanks for having asked!

~guncraze Mar 6, 2013

Well, you're very welcome!

~vesperrault Jan 16, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Ooooh! I've seen so many references to your Hylian language, but seeing a guide is really cool! If you don't mind me asking, by what process do you invent the words? Is it pure inspiration, or do you base it somewhat on some existing language or something?

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