Wata’echi / Southern Archipelago Script

The Wata’echi script was created by René M P for the fictional conworld of Wah’gai. The Wata’etchi script is used by the seafaring Ti’kami’shewa “beastblood“ tribes of the volcanic islands south of Wah’gai’s largest continent, and some “pureblood” scholars refer to it as Nienun Sefienko Muhelko, or Script of the Southern Archipelago.

The script was inspired by the mainland Engarun script, and was commissioned and adopted by the chieftain who became the language’s namesake, in the hope that a writing system would be the first step in transforming his warlike tribe into a civilization on par with the mainland purebloods. To say that his vision succeeded would be an understatement.

Notable features

Type of writing system: aphabet
Direction of writing: written in horizontal lines from left to right
Used for to write: Wata’echi
Parent systems: Engarun, Tak Heiroglyphics
Extant descendants: Olketoc (Ranger shorthand)
Origins: Created by Haki’amaki, daughter-in-law of chief Wata’echi, and adopted by the chieftain.
Cultural impact: Adoption was rapidly followed by a written code of law, followed by an explosion of indigenous literature, which led to the independent development of the printing press. The Ti’kami’Shewa count of years officially began on the date that the first draft of the law code was sealed.

Alphabet Chart

Wata’echi script

Sample text

Sample text in the Wata’echi script

IPA transcription

/tekɵʌlk mʊʌkʌlʌı tʃelım ʊw tlækewe nıʃl ket tekɵʌlk mʊʌkʌlʌı kʌnʊn. tletʃæm mʊʌnɒelhı tıʊŋewe ʊmek ʊw tletʃæm tehmık kewı gɒzətʃıwek nehɒek./

Transliteration

Tekthalk muakalai chelim uw tlakewe nishl ket tekthalk muakalai kanun. Tlecham muanoelhi tiungewe umek uw tlecham tehmik kewi gozechiwek nehoek.

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.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Download a font for this script

Also by René M P
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