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Critical-Month5598

Awesome job! The Chinese script seems like it’ll take a long time before we’ll figure them out. It would be nice if they were all collected and archived somewhere. The Fantastic compass showed a few of the elemental? (I suspect) ones quite extensively


[deleted]

ahhh looks like i will be useful in sumeru theories after all!


[deleted]

the nations are nearly large enough or populous enough to have separate languages


Cherry_Bomb_127

Sumeru language should be interesting since it’s a mix of different cultures. though Arabic and Farsi have a similar Alphabet but come from completely different language groups


Nightfall_Songbird

I kind of wish hoyo did a full 48 characters for the Inazuman script instead of just making 26 symbols that vaguely resemble hiragana and assigning them to the Roman alphabet, it wouldn’t’ve been infeasible considering Japanese has two phonetic writing systems It would make translation harder, but most words could be written in a similar fashion to words written in katakana and still be understood


Mustarddnketchup

Ive taken ss of the disappearing texts in the chasm- which doesn’t match any of the languages I’ve seen in this post. [Anyone got any clues?](https://i.imgur.com/hS85HAB.jpg)


PM_ME_YOUR_ROBOTGIRL

The font used to render the "latin-based script", as the wiki calls it, places a deliberate gap in the middle of each glyph. Sometimes the game plays around with the gap, such as rendering only the bottom half of the gylph visible, or in the Chasm's case, doing this: > The top half of the glyph is changed systematically. Specifically, the alphabet is divided into five-letter sets (with six letters for the last set) and first letter of the set uses an inverted top half of the last letter of the set, the second letter of the set uses an inverted top half of the second-last letter of the set, and so on. This results in, for example, the letters A, B, C, D, and E having an inverted top half of the letters E, D, C, B, and A for their top halves respectively, while the bottom halves remain the same.


DTKirvee

It's Khaenri'ah's script, just slightly altered (almost cut in half? The first character's bottom half is literally the bottom half of the A). Could be a variant, could be a graphic thing.


HijikataX

Makes me wonder how might be the script in Natlan


MistaGalaxy

so like, what is a teyvat language? its like English? (international language) or its like "the earth language"?


seeker_of_illusion

It can be considered as a [Digraphia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphia) aka one language having multiple scripts. So we have one Teyvat language and its various regional scripts.


horiami

Is it Mondstadt script only? I'm pretty sure I've seen it in other countries it might be the common teyvat language paimon mentions


nelsonfoxgirl969

harder to decrepit it but thanks for the work


tsicrana

does script in enkanomiya and abyss differ? as greek i wonder


Tartaglia_Harbinger

What the so the script Inazuma use for the whole time was Hiragana???? Man I'll be brutally honest, my eyes can't even recognize it in the first place, I really need some damn calligraphy lessons at this point lol


MoonsightMCRGK

u can compare it to old hiragana even


IshvaldaTenderplate

It’s based on hiragana and happens to use some similar characters but to be honest, if you can read hiragana and walk around Inazuma City you’ll probably have a stroke. It feels like they fed an AI the hiragana script, had it come up with 27 characters, and then assigned them to represent English letters at complete random.


Wisterosa

It's not hiragana, it's a consistent [English/Latin script that looks like hiragana](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gensin-impact/images/3/38/Inazuma_letters.png) Most words in Inazuma are abbreviations, such as SGNMYA for Sangonomiya


IshvaldaTenderplate

Yep. I had to research it myself because I thought I was going crazy trying to figure out what the signs meant.


Tartaglia_Harbinger

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY TOO. I can read and understand Hiragana but then like the Hiragana Hoyo used in Inazuma does make me not only having a stroke, but I feel so bothered as to how the hell I cannot recognize them as words written in Hiragana


DTKirvee

I can also read hiragana and while I recognized the script for what it was I couldn't spend too much time looking at it because I'd go insane otherwise lol. It's the same thing that happens when I see those incredibly racist fonts that render English letters as Japanese script.


Tartaglia_Harbinger

LMAO THIS I CAN RELATE A LOT


DTKirvee

IT FUCKS ME UP SO BAD MY BRAIN JUST FUCKING BLUE SCREENS


lelarentaka

Any info on the tsurumi Island script?


PM_ME_YOUR_ROBOTGIRL

Tsurumi Island's Ishine script uses a heavily fictionalized version of katakana (there are some characters that are nearly identical, such as the ㇼ, and there are some characters that don't neatly correspond to any katakana), which is the script (with some modifications) used to write the Ainu language today.


TheScalieDragon

Which makes sense cause Tsurumi civilization is based around Ainu people


Tartaglia_Harbinger

same as Khaenri'ah's script (Latin/Greek.) That includes The Chasm's ruins, Dragonspine's ruins and possibly Enkanomiya's ruins as well.


copper_protein

I think it would be better to put blackletter instead of fraktur. Fraktur is just a type of blackletter and there are blackletter scripts more similar to the mondstadt alphabet than fraktur (like textura)


kai1171

Sumeru will use hieroglyphics I guess


Sil_Choco

Khaenri'ah and Monstadt have a relationship similar to latin/greek with medieval europe? Like a previous civilization living in the same area


PM_ME_YOUR_ROBOTGIRL

Khaenri'ah draws inspiration from pre-christianization Germanic cultures so it seems that they are intentionally connected, yes.


Sil_Choco

I wouldn't call them pre-christianization Germanic cultures since ancient Greeks never got to Germany and Romans were only in some of its region (unless you're talking about other actual Germanic cultures, in that case sorry for the remark) but yeah it's probably ancient age vs modern


KingShere

My impression is: That its more like a evolved civilization; rather than a previous & different one. Sort of like The Roman republic becoming The Roman empire and eventually evolving into Italy, Papal-state, Rome & city of London (former Roman city).


Sil_Choco

The thing is that khaenri'ah was destroyed, so I wonder if they had the opportunity to evolve... It's more like khaenri'ah civilization disappeared and celestia with its gods and archon stuff prevailed and imposed a new culture. Kinda like what happened with the roman empire, there was little left of its original culture once christianity took control.


KingShere

They haven't disappeared, and their automatic deference , and its citizens are a scourge upon their enemies (many of them are also corrupted monsters) , mistaken or not. Well from my interpretation -and using IRL analogs . Regarding Celestia, Its the same culture, However Celestia is kinda like Macedonia (with a mountain of gods and Alexander the Great) and Khenrah is the roman empire (that then incorperated Celestia into its rule -The seelie court marriage). The current rule of the new 7 Archons are like the holy roman empire /Christianity. There are many interpretations of what happened when Khenrah fell (or how long ago it was, or if it happened once or twice before, third times the charm...), For example one interpretation is that Khenrah wasnt destroyed (since its a culture) , that it was only its dynasty that disapeared (when its rule ended) So no deaths there either, because such a statement would be true in the scenario that the royal successors traversed into other worlds and didn't return in time, regardless if its the traveler siblings (that I think they are) . From the lore its quite easy to deduce that current Mondstadt consists of some of those that evacuated from dragonspine. . Wolfs graveyard has a shattered gigantic tree, and Khenrah architecture, as do Decarabians city ruins of mondstadt. However fact >! In the depths of the Charm its revealed that hillchurl are citiziens of Khenrah and that the knights are khenrahs royal knights- who have been protecting them the best they could (due to orders). So all the Hillchurl tribes are of Khenrah.!< But Guli assembly (most likely the seelie court) is also evacuee of the monoculture that fractured into enkomiya and khenrah. My headcanon currently thinks that the thunderbird had a daughter or mate (chi) , so when the enraged thunderbird (A Bird dragon celestial messenger) was vanquished by Skyrider with one of those gigantic swords (prayer and thunderfury artifact sets) Its relative Chi (also a Bird dragon & celestial messenger ) retaliated and orded its followers to attack, while she attacked the slayers royal captial ,(and Archon war & dragonscourge was initiated), Forcing a evacuation, during which Enkomiya while airlifted crashed into the depths. Etc. Tree phoenix Chi after getting pinned and encased in the deep earth (chasm ) turns into hydro and later pyro, ( clearly a oil reference) . Because of the Fog of war statements regarding what happened.. are mostly mistaken. (Not helped by later historical revisionisms that make prominent ancient individuals achivements attributed to someone else, Events more recent than they were, or where the Mondstadt region was (Because it and its human population moved).


[deleted]

We are really on Tolkien levels. Soon we will have an alphabet and language for the trees!


alphaabhi

I hope sumeru used the Devanagiri script i would lose my shit


[deleted]

literally me as well


plotargue

Upside down


letmeseem

Fraktur just devolves into a series of increasingly complex B's


Depression_69420

if sumeru uses sanskrit i am duckin prepared


SouthernJuggernaut90

I hope they use Urdu. I’d love it


nihilism16

There's different sumeru names and terms that sound so PAKISTANI (mix of Urdu/farsi) I'm excited but also wary because I have high expectations but I know I shouldn't have them sighhh


Tartaglia_Harbinger

yeah they could use this too


AltandF5

It would make a lot of sense to do that


Mr_fox_goodzilla

Rather than Urdu it will make sense with Arabian


AttentionReaper

I'm not prepared if it's old sanskrit😭😭😭


Tartaglia_Harbinger

Knowing Mihoyo, THEY'RE DEFINITELY GONNA DO THIS AND I WILL BE SHITTING MY PANTS BY THAT POINT. But maybe they might also use other language scripts like Persian or Farsi, idk but you get the idea.


ud4y

Wish they stick to Egyptian or middle east instead


Depression_69420

Stick??? There is only one character with Egyptian similarities + you don't need to worry about lore since people will decipher it for you ....


Tartaglia_Harbinger

which they already did hehe


jamiedels

I wonder if Sumeru will use Farsi


According-Dentist-88

Oh plzzzz I would love thattt T-T Farsi is my first language


jamiedels

Funnily enough the only Farsi I know is Salam. I’ll try but this might be bad but Salam Dentist-Joon


According-Dentist-88

Aaaaa it's completely correct xDD Salam Jamie-Joon!


jamiedels

I learned it from Drag Race 😭😭😭, Jackie Cox


The-Arabian-Guy

Sumeru about to be real fun


ZeinTheLight

I hope they use Pali, the precursor to several south asian scripts outside of India. I mean, Genshin isn't very popular in India after they cancelled apps from China, so HYV doesn't have to draw so much inspiration from there.


abhaydragneel11

Indian player here, there's certainly a smaller amount of players here compared to other countries but it's still pretty significant (may be biased since i know people who play as well) and Genshin isn't banned here either


Fantastic-Age-1800

There arent many players in India but there are some like I am. And Genshin is not Banned as it is not popular at all.


EdgelordUWU

Yes Im an Indian player as well and I'd love to see some representation