#indogene

If you mean did the glyphs we created ever appear, yes, they did; we saw them all over the place. Now, were they ever used to write anything specific, as opposed to just being used for decoration in random ways? That I don't know. We did send them a list of some things spelled out correctly, but I don't know if they used them. It would've been nice to do some of the things that were in focus (like an open and closed sign), but we never had any communication with the art department.

You have to understand: It's a rare thing to get to even do a writing system. On many shows/films (Game of Thrones, Thor: The Dark World, Emerald City, Paper Girls) production finds the very notion of a language having a unique writing system somewhat comical. Others (The Shannara Chronicles, Raya and the Last Dragon, Halo) find the notion that the language creator(s) would create the writing system used in the show amusing. We weren't hired to create a writing system for Elemental. We told them we could do it and they said no. We did it anyway. And after they saw it, they decided they liked it and would use it. That doesn't happen often!

So yeah, the fact that they didn't use the writing system to spell things out accurately? Not a big deal. You think everything in the background of Defiance was spelled correctly? There were dozens of pill bottles in Doc Yewll's office with over 200 words of text on them each. That was just gibberish done in the Indogene font, because, frankly, no matter how much you zoom in on those Doc Yewll scenes, you will never be able to read that writing (nor will you be able to see that what filled the pill bottles were things like oyster crackers).

So, it's been a long time, and I actually don't 100% know how to say something like "know yourself"... :( I did figure out a way to do "Love Is Love" that I like. See, for copular expressions, ordinarily you turn the noun into a verb via noun incorporation, but I like how balanced and even the expression is in English. To do that, I turned the verb love into a noun and then used a symbol I created for the = sign and put it between the two words. The word for "love" is actually suotrangguro, which breaks down to "to love an individual". You have to attach it to an actual noun in order to use the word itself.

Anyway, I went and ahead and tried to create a shirt over at our Redbubble store. Here's what it looks like:

You can take a look at the image and use that as a template if you'd like to create something else.

Here’s Castithan:

Here’s Irathient:

And here’s Indojisnen:

First, in the writing system I used for the scripts, “aa” = [a] and “a” = [ǝ]. So keep that in mind. Second, you’re right, there is no glyph for “o”. There are a few different ways to get the sound [o] in Irathient:

“aal” or “al” = [o] (when followed by a consonant or end of the word)

“aaw” or “aw” = [o] (when followed by a consonant or end of the word)

“aa” or “a” = [o] (when followed by a nasal consonant which is followed by a consonant or the end of a word)

Of course, áárko is a borrowing from Castithan (which is a borrowing from Indojisnen), and those languages, of course, have natural [o] all over the place. Usually in such a circumstance Irathient will spell it “aaw”, and that is the case with the word áárko.

Whatever gets your uncle on Romper Room! Here you go: