Ngala
Ngala An inscriptional system of quasi-featural glyphs, mostly monosyllabic. As you see there is a spot for each radical, onset, nucleus and coda. The red squares are potential connection points. To form many words the 2nd nucleus position is needed and can be seen in a few of the examples below. But first, the radical values: As you can see, each radical has two to three varying values depending on where it falls in the glyph. I have followed the lead of forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=842#842>fmra in reverse engineering a few of these glyphs to be somewhat pictographic, please pay no attention to my child-like artistic inabilities. myong /mjo:N/ - n. a large feline, tiger lion…etc As you can see, each radical spot is used, top left: M, bottom left: YA, top right: O, bottom right: NG. In this glyph the O modifies the YA and makes it YO. A possible handwritten version of myong, but keep in mind, these glyphs would rarely ever be handwritten. guja /gu:Za:/ - n. water, stream, creek In the above you see an example of a disyllabic glyph. Disyllabic glyphs only occur when the second syllable is one of the following nuclei: a, o, ja, ha, ya, la, ra. There are occasions when these are modifying the preceding nucleus and not acting as second syllables and the occurrences are based on phonotactic rules. E.g. ya-a is /ja:.a:/, but ya-o is /jo:/. n’ha /n@?.h\a:/ - n. a cut, gash, slash v. to cut, hack, slice In this sample you see that only two radical positions are used, this is perfectly acceptable. They are variable to give way to more “pictographic” possibilities. toj /to:Z/ - n. warrior, fighter, combatant This sample shows how the secondary nucleus position can be used without the first, the glyph remains readable. Another example of a handwritten glyph, toj. A longer sample:

Very nice, Sano. Good job. edit: Ah. The rank avatars have changed again.

Ooh, very cool! Of course, we already know I'm a big fan of the blockscripts. I can read some Taalen heiroglyphs in some of these... :) Out of curiosity, how do you draw the glyphs? Pixel by pixel? making use of a grid of guides?

edit: Ah. The rank avatars have changed again. Yeah, I had that thread about the "create some ranks" Competition up for a few weeks, no one seemed to care, so I did it myself. EDIT: Wy, would you care to suggest some "ideas" or words for ranks...I'm eager to put them into Ngala and use them for rank icons. Out of curiosity, how do you draw the glyphs? Well, if you notice in the single word examples above, I start with the grid of four squares, then I erase and add where needed to make the glyphs.

Re: Ngala
First, in general; everythings on a black background. I can't tell if there's parts I'm not seeing at all, because there seems to be some extra black space around what I can see. Mostly I can see the red quite clearly. Mostly the white looks like scattered, unconnected, patternless dots. In some cases, when the white part is big, it looks like a white outline of a hollow something with a black interior. On ngala2a.png I can see only the red connection-points clearly. The white writing in the corners just looks like scattered white dots. On ngala3a.png I see only scattered white dots. There's a lot of black space to the left; is there something there I'm not seeing? On ngala_myong3.png the left half is blank black. The third quarter is three red squares. The fourth quarter is an all-right-angles "cubist" picture of a long-necked lion. On ngala_myong2a.png I see what looks like two glyphs; they're hollow white outlines on a black background with black interiors. The lines (that is, the white outlines) are very thin, and at some points seem to be only one pixel wide and so break up when they turn. On ngala_guja2.png the left and middle third are empty black space. The right third looks like a circuit-board diagram in shades of blue, green, and brown. On ngala_nha2.png the left and middle third are empty black space. The right third is a weird drawing in grey, brown, and orange, with 45-degree angles as well as horizontal and vertical lines. On ngala-toj3.png the left half is empty black space. The third quarter is two red square dots. The right quarter is a weird drawing in grey, brown, pink, and red. It's lines are horizontal, vertical, and 45-degree angles from them. On ngala_toj2a.png I see a single glyph; it looks like it was meant to be drawn with "thick" lines, originally, but the "thick lines" have been replaced by something hollow, whose outline is 1-pixel-wide very thin white, and whose interior is the same black as the background. ngala_mongha2.png the left three quarters of the upper two fifths contains eighteen glyphs, apparently organized into words of 1, 2, 1, 1, 2 glyphs on the first line, and 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2 glyphs on the second line. They're all in red, and all rectilinear and rectangular. They're quite clear; but the amount of empty black space makes me suspect I'm missing something. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is there some special color-setting, or worse yet some special software, I need to use, to be able to see these? I can't install the software, and I don't know whether I can reset the colors.

Kudos eldin, for explaining everything in such numbing detail that you couldn't see... A simple post of, "I can't really see the images..." would have been efficient and sufficient. links for eldin: http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s214/qatama/ngala/ngala2.png http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s214/qatama/ngala/ngala3.png http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s214/qatama/ngala/ngala_guja.png http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s214/qatama/ngala/ngala_mongha.png http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s214/qatama/ngala/ngala_myong.png http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s214/qatama/ngala/ngala_myong2.png http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s214/qatama/ngala/ngala_nha.png http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s214/qatama/ngala/ngala_toj.png http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s214/qatama/ngala/ngala_toj2.png NB: Eldin, it is not necessary to quote such large portions of previous posts, especially when you are simply saying that you can't really see a few images.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ngala.php Simon was eager to add this page.

Well, the ranks that I most recently had were the ranks of the Q'ma, the Qatama military/nobility.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s214/qatama/ngala/ngala_mogu.png An example of a dual glyph pictograph. mogu /mo:.gu:/ - n. sleep, rest, relaxation | v. to sleep, lay, rest I'm still working on a viable tri-glyph pictograph, but after much thought I'm fairly sure there is at least one.

What would be nice is to see Ngala incorporated into a jigsaw puzzle, to help children learn the script.