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| '''Kwandon''' is an {{wl|abjad}} by [[David J. Peterson]] used to write the [[Sondiv language]] spoken by the alien Atrian people from [[The CW]]'s ''[[Star-Crossed]]''. {{script appendix|Kwan}}
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| ==Orthography==
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| Sondiv's script, known as Kwandon, is an abjad, a writing system that primarily represents consonantal sounds. Vowels are typically not written or are only written in specific contexts. Peterson designed this script for the Atrian language in the TV show ''Star-Crossed''.
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| ===Design concept===
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| Kwandon was created to have a appearance inspired by seaweed and oceanic elements, based on the water-world character of Atria. The goal was to emphasize consonants, with a particular visual style that included lines written over and under glyphs. Peterson had previously created scripts like abugidas and a syllabary for the show ''[[Defiance]]'', and so aimed to create writing system of a different type for ''Star-Crossed''.
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| ===Root system===
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| Similar to Arabic, Sondiv employs a root system that allows for the easy formation of new words. There are twenty-four basic nominal patterns and an adjectival pattern for building words. Patterns have broad semantic categories, such as "Animate A" and "Animate B." The script was designed encode these patterns unambiguously using only consonant letters and certain modifications to those letters.
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| ===Orthography encoding===
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| Peterson devised a schema with four modifications to accommodate two and three consonant roots. The goal was to minimize modifications while ensuring unambiguous encoding. All glyphs occupy the same vertical space for efficiency. Glyphs have two modifications above and two below the character.
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| ====Glyph examples====
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| '''Oral stops''': Glyphs for the plosives [p], [t], [k], [b], [d], and [g].
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| [[File:K1.png|450px]]
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| '''Basic fricatives''': Glyphs for fricatives like [s], [z], and [v].
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| [[File:K2.png|450px]]
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| '''Liquids and nasals''': Includes characters for [r] , [l], [m], and [n].
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| [[File:K3.png|450px]]
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| '''Glide group''': A set featuring [h], [w], and [j].
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| [[File:K4.png|450px]]
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| '''Vowel gorup''': Characters for former long vowel versions of vowels, sometimes used as consonants in roots.
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| [[File:K5.png|450px]]
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| '''Foreign sounds''': Glyphs created for foreign sounds like [tʃ], [dʒ], [ʃ], and [θ].
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| [[File:K6.png|450px]]
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| '''Additional Characters''': Characters for the vowels [e] and [o] were created for special use cases. They do not take any modifications.
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| [[File:K7.png|450px]]
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| ===Consonant modifications===
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| Modifications 1 and 2 are written over one or two consonants to the left, modification 3 is written under one or two consonants to the right, and modification 4 occurs before a single consonant or between two consonants.
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| [[File:K8.png|450px]]
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| ===Pronunciation===
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| Patterns to form nouns, adjectives, determiners and names can apply to biconsonantal (e.g., S-K) and triconsonantal (e.g., S-K-T) roots. They are written with consonant letters representing prefixes and suffixes, as well as applying the presence or absence of the four modifications to the consonants of the root. The patterns have singular and plural forms.
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| This is detailed in the table below, where patterns are signified by Roman numerals, modifications are signified by Arabic numerals, and Roman alphabet letters represent consonantal affices, except for P which represents a special plural glyph:
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| [[File:K9.png|450px]]
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| In the following table, a Ø represents no modification or marking. If two or three letters follow each other without modifications, they will be read as the determiner pattern above. The second root letter, rather than the third, is modified for the male name pattern pronunciation. The third root letter modification covers only the second letter, not the first, for the female name pattern pronunciation, as seen below:
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| [[File:K10.png|450px]]
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| ==Number system==
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| Sondiv employs a base-10 number system with special words for prime numbers up to twenty. Symbols for numbers are taken from the alphabet, and a special number sign differentiates numbers from words. | |
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| ==References==
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| * https://dedalvs.tumblr.com/post/85564939775/hi-im-loving-star-crossed-at-the-minute-specially
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| [[Category:Kwandon script| ]][[Category:Script appendices]]
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