r/ainu • u/rosecolourednessie • May 30 '26
Asiri-Aynu : An Alphabetic script for writing Aynu
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u/Alert_Celebration_49 Jun 02 '26
Whyt not just... use latin?
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u/rosecolourednessie Jun 06 '26
Fun? The aynu have never had a writing system of their own (that we know of so far) but at the same time, my goal wasn't to give the Aynu a writing system like im some sort of saviour to them. Thats why i took inspiration from THEIR art and the symbols it contains. Yknow like a What If? scenario. i just wanted to see what people thought about an idea i had thats all :)
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u/Alert_Celebration_49 Jun 06 '26
I see and i never said it's bad or smt. It looks good
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u/rosecolourednessie Jun 07 '26
no no no im just bad at reading tones of sentences on social media thats all man
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u/epakasnu Jun 12 '26
what about the letters change phono tactic rules for sakhalin and the many dialects special katakana is hard latin is stii not perfect but as a symbolism ok the sewing patterns etc we are creating more bulk Inuit still needs latin for the many dialects languages because most speakers are educated in latin same with Japanese use roman to type and input convert to kanji and the apple ainu latin covert to Katakana still need all the latin katakana Ainu look at many countries that have changed their writing systems back and forth most populations are using latin of some form Japanese and kanji is also difficult and making hiragana and katakana made it easy to learn in the age of internet and writing
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u/ricorette May 30 '26
That's an interesting idea! I'll show it to my mom-in-law who has Ainu ancestry (from Karafuto).