Kala writing/tloko

• The tloko script is logosyllabic combining about 500 logograms (which represent whole words) and 220 syllabograms (which represent syllables). About 300 glyphs are commonly used.
• Tloko is primarily meant to be an epigraphic system, but a handwritten version is in development.
• Writing direction: vertical from top to bottom and from left to right.
• Tloko is a mixed system like Japanese or Mayan, consisting of logograms and featural syllabic glyphs.
• Unlike Mayan glyphs which are logograms complemented by a set of syllabic glyphs, Tloko is primarily a syllabary complemented by logograms.

Featural Syllabary

• The basic consonant glyphs were directly inspired by Hangul.

consonants

Chart of all Tloko syllables

• Each consonant has three forms. The form used depends on the the vowel added to form the syllable glyph.

(V = null consonant)

vowels

An example of p with all vowel elements.

• The vowels elements are shown here with the null consonant glyph.

(-C = null vowel, or final consonant)

Logographs

Gallery of Tloko logographs

• Several of the Tloko logographs are directly inspired by Hanzi, Mayan or other natural logographic scripts.

Numerals

From top to bottom; uena'o, ueka'o, nyeyauena'o, hanyeta'o, manyetsauesa'o and tatletaueya'o.

• In large numbers, elements are combined from largest to smallest, and zeros are implied [see example "302" to the right].

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The UDHR in tloko moya.

Sound Sample

• kua tlana tsiya ma’a katsi ma kueli itlo nasa

all human free with dignity and rights equal born

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

• kam tlitsi ma toya yoha ma kanku ma’a tsaku te takun ketahe

3PL reasoning and conscience possess and 3PL.RECP with idea of brotherhood behave.NEC

They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

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