u/IJriccan

Inspired by the Naguaké Taíno Petroglyphs and Taínonaíki alphabet designed by Javier A. Hernández, the creator of Taínonaíki, a reconstruction of the Classical or Old Taíno language spoken by the Taíno peoples living in and around Puerto Rico prior to the European colonization of the Americas.

Javier A. Hernández dedicated over a decade and a half rebuilding the Taíno language and designing a script for it. As an island born Boricua myself I respect and admire the hell out of him. His work is incredible and intensely important. It is out of love for my heritage and orthographies alike that I have designed this abugide designed for Taínonaíki, as an alternative to the Taínonaíki Alphabet Javier A. Hernández created.

Why don’t you just stay home…? Please…?

Although I adore Shavian, I do believe it has many flaws, particularly it's lack of more consonant blend letters, so I attempted to imitate the shape language of Shavian to create this system.

(The period mark comes before proper nouns to indicate them, as in Shavian, as well as acting as a full stop marker.)

This is an primary iteration, but I want to continue working on it, so criticisms are extremely welcome! Enjoy!

I'm attempting to make an alternative script for English for fun, so I mapped out a chart for all the sounds I'm going to use individual characters to represent before beginning designwork, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask this community if the chart I'm going to base it off of is in need of improvements/has major issues or oversights that need to be looked into.

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Yo soy BORICUA, y en verdad, la única bandera en mi opinion que creo que realmente abarca a la isla del encanto es la bandera celeste. La versión original de la bandera actual, con ese tono azul claro; la bandera que no transige con el azul marino de Estados Unidos, que representa el espíritu de la isla, de su gente y de su cultura, independiente y orgullosa.

English

I am BORICUA, and truly, the only flag that I believe really encompasses Puerto Rico is the light blue flag. The original version of the current flag, with that light blue shade; the flag that doesn't compromise with the navy blue of the United States, that represents the spirit of the island, its people, and its culture, independent and proud.