What are those characters in the ALCA logo?

Posted On: 29 Sep 2024, 08:35 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination

The logo for this group features letters of six artistic languages. These are artistic languages that I have a decent familiarity with.

The top letter is from the Aurebesh alphabet featured in Star Wars. Unlike the other languages, Aurebesh is not a true constructed language but what is known as a "cypher" language, which is a visual language that replaces a language's alphabet with different characters to give the appearance of a different language. Why included it anyway? Because Star Wars does feature some elements of constructed language, but these are mostly spoken and not generally written with an alphabet that agrees with word processing standards. This is the letter "l", as in "language".

On the top-left is a letter from Ath, the writing system for the Abh language "Baronh" featured in the 星界の紋章 (Seikai no Monshou; "Crest of the Stars") novel series by Morioka Hiroyuki. The written language is featured extensively in the manga and anime of the same name. The letter is "c" for "canse", the Baronh word for "to speak".

The top-right is a letter from Tengwar, one of the writing systems used by J. R. R. Tolkien for his Middle-Earth works. This letter is "l" for "lambë", the Quenya world for "language".

The bottom-left is a letter from the tlhIngan pIdaQ script, one of two writing systems developed for Marc Okrand's Klingon language from Star Trek. The Astra Image Corporation created this script based on Matt Jefferies symbols used on Klingon battleships featured in the film series. This is the letter "H' for "Hol", the Klingon word for "language".

The bottom-right is a letter from the Hymmnos script, used to write the Hymmnos language. The language was developed by Tsuchiya Akira for Gust Ltd. and Banpresto for the Ar Tonelico game series, which is part of the larger EXA_PICO universe (and is certainly not the only constructed language in that universe). This is the letter "p" for "pagle", the Central Standard Note dialect for "to talk, to speak".

The central character is from one of my own artistic languages, Batum, which I have featured quite a bit in my artwork on Side 7. This is the letter "m" for "miakuwm", the Batum word for "language".