u/SupaSudo009

As soon as I saw this sub-reddit here, I knew I had to get my stuff on here.

This is Kwaju Script, derived from "Kwa Watu Wa Jua," or "For the People of the Sun" in Swahili. The script is a hybrid abugida for Swahili that's heavily inspired by Meroitic Cursive and Ge'ez scripts. This project Is my attempt to inspire people to use, or to make African scripts to be used and shared for their native languages by making it fun and easy to write. It can be written both horizontally and vertically in a left to right format.

The script has grown and changed a lot over the past few days, so there may be some errors within the script that differentiates from the given key.

I really do wanna make this script as easy and as fun to write as possible, so I ask for your thoughts and feedback on the script! (PLEASE)

note: Z, W, S and the E vowel marker have changed from previous iterations of the script.

Kwaju Script, or the Kwaju writing system, is an experimental writing system that aims to create a fun and aesthetic way to represent Swahili.

This is a doodle containing very random dialogue. Did you know that Kwaju Script can write vertically? (up to down, left to right) And that the : spacer is back in fashion???

You can decode the dialogue if you want, however the dialogue may not make sense. It might, but you never know.

What do you think of this? Let me know your thoughts!

Kwaju Script, or the Kwaju writing system, is an experimental writing system that aims to create a fun and aesthetic way to represent Swahili.

These pages were really fun to transcribe. I really enjoyed making it, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. The original Swahili pages and the key are included in this post.

If you have any thoughts, please share them!

Kwaju Script, or the Kwaju writing system, is an experimental writing system that aims to create a fun and aesthetic way to represent Swahili.

This is a handwriting test. The written material is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights articles one and two. It took forever to transcribe.

Kwaju Script, or the Kwaju writing system, is an experimental writing system that aims to create a fun and aesthetic way to represent Swahili.

This mini-lesson focuses on repeating vowels in Kwaju syllable blocks [CVV], and shows how to write them.

This has been a recurring problem for me as I've been developing the script, but I believe that this will make many words across languages easier to write.

The key/guide sheet has been included in this post for reference. Feel free to try to decode the quote; bonus points if you post or comment a word or phrase using the script that contains an extended vowel!

Edit: extended vowel markers are good for clean blocks in handwriting, but may be harder to implement as a digital font. Therefore you can choose whether or not you use the extended vowel system!

I found a really cool brush for a drawing program I used and I figured it would be fun to transcribe some swahili media to chivabwe. may look rough though, but i honestly think the fact alone that chivabwe can be made to look official in a poster is great.

i'm not entirely sure about where the poster is from, but i'm assuming it's a kenyan or tanganyikan world war 2 poster made during late world war 2. again, i'm not entirely sure of it's origin

from article 1 of the universal declaration of human rights

Kitenge-Man fights for the people's rights, freedoms, and the Pan-African way.

Fin little poster thing in Chivabwe script

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This is getting really fun to write with my fountain pen! I really enjoyed making these. The resources in the subreddit are really helping me out 🙏

Gave up on trying to find a shorthand for now, but as soon as I find a sort of “cursive” for this I’ll let you guys know.

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I thought it would have been cool to see what a paragraph would look like written in chivabwe swahili, so thats what i did.
This one might be rough though, cause i didn’t rely entirely on the digital library this time. I actually picked up on a few symbols.

Nontheless this was really fun to make. Someone’s gotta make a full page of chivabwe now, otherwise I will 😁

Mostly trying to experiment with different “fonts” and figuring out a shorthand for Chivabwe

This is a pan-african script called chivabwe, which you can find on its own subreddit. I really like it as a script that can potentially be widely used, and i think it looks pretty cool in writing.