I have been consumed with binding artist books and writing the monograph that goes with them, but I expect to finish writing tomorrow! Now that I'm so close to printing, I'm opening pre-orders for the monograph: It's a chance to catch it at the early bird price but the window closes when the book goes to press. It will ship in October after my campaign fulfillment.
Order here: http://majnouna.com/shop/books

#arabic #abjad #Calligraphy #Kufic #scripts

I got a letter!

#Sefaria, a digital library of Jewish literature, is celebrating its 10 year anniversary by letting folks claim a Hebrew letter from the Torah. I know very little about #Hebrew so why not learn about what the letter means, as well as what the word in the verse means. (1/5)

#abjad #languagelearning #etymology #Judaism #tanakh #genesis

The #writingsystem for my new #conlang

Not sure there's a real-world lang using something like this, so rn I call it a "relative #abjad" bc instead of writing characters to represent sounds, each sound corresponds to a position on a slanted grid, so strokes you make actually mark the relationship between consonants. Each grid makes a single word

This says "A Tinus bib ti'as kiham bib kmam," spelled "X TNS BBB T'S KHM BBB KMM," & means "'The One speaks then I speak also."

#neography

Abjads are weird. מממממם is a valid word that is consisted of six instances of the letter Mem (it means "from their memers", by the way). And even if you don't use the borrowed root מם, you can still have ממממנם ("from their sponsor"), a word that was not constructed just for this exercise and could very well have been used in print.

#abjad #linguistics #hebrew