Simplified Summer Series–Aviandrian Alphabet

It’s almost school time, which means learning, which brings books to mind. Of course, where there’s books, reading is required, and we all know the bases for reading is your good old ABC’s. That isn’t the only writing system in the world, however. Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, ancient Egyptian, etc. all have different symbols used to create words, not to mention many Asian countries that have different characters for each word. Aviandria also has its own symbols to write words.

Besides just having different symbols for different letters, there are several other differences in the Aviandrian writing system. Among these are:

• The Aviandrian writing system is entirely phonetic. This means that each symbol doesn’t stand for a letter, but a single sound. Some sounds that are close to each other may have a similar symbol with variations to indicate which sounds must be used, but there aren’t any weird rules like “when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.” It also means that different accents can potentially change the spelling of a word, since there isn’t a standardized spelling method. You spell it sounds.
• The Aviandrian writing system reads right to left rather than the standard left to right we are used to.
• If there is a letter we have that doesn’t seem to have a close match in Aviandrian, it’s because it either has a letter that already makes the same sound (like c does with s and k) or there are two other letters that can be combined to make that sound (like ks makes the same sound as x).
• There are more different vowel symbols in Aviandrian than in English because vowels vary in the sounds they make so much.

Here is a key to Aviandrian with the best approximation of the English equivalent I could put together. The consonants and vowels are in different lists because the vowels have to be so much more specific. And pardon the weird picture quality. I’m still stuck on my phone, which makes scanning difficult, so a snapshot has to work. Keep in mind, it is only the sound the letter makes that matters. Not the name. Also, if you write anything out, it goes right to left. (Good news if you’re left handed.)

Also, I’ve written out some of the main character’s names out in Aviandrian script, and, just in case you decide to decorate some of your school supplies in Aviandrian style like I suggested last week, here are some common school subjects.

Try writing your name out in the Aviandrian script. Was it easy or hard?