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Basic Geek Alphabet

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I'm so excited to get this out!
I've been crazy into typography and letters for the past few years (likewise alphabets, language and phonetics), and in the course of it, I began creating my own fictional alphabet. Now I've finally developed it to where I like it, so I made this finalized chart. It's been a while in the workings, and has changed alot sense it began.
Rather then having it's own language, it's meant as an alternate script for English. I've always been bugged by how crazy words are spelled in English, often not being spelled the way they sound, or phonetically. So I took all the basic sounds we commonly use in English (thirty, by my count) and assigned letter shapes to them that I liked. The shapes of these letters were firstly based on letters of the Latin script (which English uses), then I borrowed a little from Cyrillic (which like Russian and Ukrainian use) and Greek. Then I customized each of them from there. So it's sort of a mix of those three scripts.

Above each letter in this chart—paired off in capital and lower case—is the letter's name. And below is how the letter is pronounced when written. See if you can figure out how your name would be spelled!
I may post more details in the future.

The fictional letters in this chart were created by dissecting and editing letters rendered in the Arial font. Made using Blender 3D.

>>The Geek alphabet belongs to me<<
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