Ilo Reverse Abugida

The Ilo Reverse Abugida is an alternative writing system for Hawaiian invented by TheDankBoi69 in May 2025. It is a "vowel-centered abugida", that is, the main letter forms represent vowels and diphthongs, while diacritics are applied to indicate consonants.

Notable features

Type of writing system: quasi-featural alphabet
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
Used to write: Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi)
A zig-zag indicates vowel length.
The letterforms and diacritics are actually inspired from the Thaana abugida for the Maldivian language. In fact, most of the letters are just mirrored versions of Thaana consonants reassigned into Hawaiian vowels and diphthongs.
It's quasi-featural, that is, they have been selected because of their shape, for example, the AE and AU look like an A's attached to E and U, the AI looks like an I written so that it resembles an A, the OI looks like an exaggerated O and as long as an I, an the OU looks like it's an O attached to a U on the left side, the EI looks like a reversed E, the EU looks like the bottom half of an E (the bottom half of the EU in turn looking like an U), the IU looks like and I with a swash that looks like the top part of an U, etc.
The letters are slanted to the opposite side (because TheDankBoi69 is left-handed). However, they can be unslanted.

Ilo Reverse Abugida

Sample text

Sample text in Hawaiian in the Ilo Reverse Abugida

Transliteration

Hānau kū'oko'a 'ia nā kānaka apau loa, a ua kau like ka hanohano a me nā pono kīvila ma luna o kākou pākahi. Ua ku'u mai ka no'ono'o pono a me ka 'ike pono ma luna o kākou, no laila, e aloha kākou kekahi i kekahi.

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)

Information about Maldivian & the Thaana script | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel

Constructed scripts by TheDankBoi69

Evolved Alphabet, Ilo Reverse Abugida, Machaq Aymar, Urin Qichwa Simipaq Musuq Qillqa

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