Tauro-Piscean writing system

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Tauro-Piscean
Type:	Alternative - uses both ideographic (Grammatikos) and alphabetic (Sonitos) characters
Spoken languages:	Tauro-Piscean
Creator:	S.C. Anderson
Time period:	May 2008 to present
Parent systems:	Latin alphabet Hangul

The modern Tauro-Piscean writing system uses two scripts:

• Sonitos, an alphabet and
• Grammatikos, an ideographic system

Here is an example of text that uses both scripts (Sonitos red and Grammatikos green):

'I build a house for you'

Usage of Scripts

Most Tauro-Piscean sentences will contain both Sonitos and Grammatikos. Sonitos are used for stems of articles, nouns, verbs and adjectives, while Grammatikos are used for inflectional endings or variants of said parts of speech.

The writing format is horizontal and read left to right.

Sonitos

The word 'sonito' written in Sonitos

Sonitos is a phonemic alphabet organised into syllabic blocks, which are called 'units'. Each unit consists of three letters or 'constituents' that are written vertically top to bottom, the initial and final of which are consonants, zero-consonants or consonant clusters and the medial of which is a vowel.

There are two types of constituent: occupational and supplementary. Occupational constituents represent either one or one of two possible consonants (the latter of which is often the voiced counterpart and marked with a 'Dakútên') and these are the same regardless of being in the initial or final position. Here is a table of occupational constituents:

Supplementary constituents are harder to learn because each one stands for one or one of two consonant clusters, but represent usually entirely different consonant clusters when in initial and final position.