Kop'ell

The Kop'ell script was created by Gabriel Harter to write his conlang by the same name. The language is intended to serve as the product of a very distant feature society in which most of humanity has had to revive itself after a global catastrophe of some sort.

Grammatically Kop'ell is modeled on a combination of Japanese in its particle system and some Inuit languages as well as some Algonquin ones in its verb structure, nevertheless components of Kop'ell are almost completely alien to languages now. Phonetically speaking, it shows some similarities to Western Greenlandic as well as the Western Abenaki language (Algonquin language family) and also draws some near cognates to other Eskimo-Aleut languages.

Notable features

Type of writing system: partial abugida / partial syllabary
Direction of writing: top to bottom and bottom to top (vertical reverse boustropehdon)
Used to write: Kop'ell
Vowels can be used as stand-alone letters when they come at the beginning of words.
Traditionally the script is written skillfully in one stroke and features no closed loops except in the vowel line on the right hand side.

Kop'ell

Consonants

Kop'ell consonants

Vowels

Kop'ell vowels

The stand-alone forms of the vowels are represented by the larger of the two symbols in each box.

Punctuation and other symbols

Kop'ell vowels

The phrase end marker is attached to either the consonant string or the vowel string depending on the dialect and author's preference.

Sample texts

Sample text in Kop'ell

Transliteration

Bayeqəttai kolhudyeyou. ŋya. Ll'yuuouŋavaqətt. Bovaqətt. Bovap'aqətt.

Translation

This is my child. Guest. I eat seal. I go. I went.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Taŋya kobŋyaaillinak'oŋyeyou umap'abuŋqəɣ. Povaŋillidoŋqauye kayamvabuŋqəlhoŋa, taŋtaŋuye sovabadyokalibuŋqəlh.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

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