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[Public] ? ?

1. "The Turin Horse", Bela Tarr, László Krasznahorkai. ? ?

2. Ancient-Mawic grammar I. ? ?

3. Ancient-Mawic grammar II. ? ?

4. Ancient-Mawic Idioms ? ?

5. Ancient-Mawic poems/texts ? ?

6. Ancient-Mawic script (Sãgwá) ? ?

7. Origin of the mawic ? ?

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Menu 1. History 2. Usage 3. Áqindá 4. Numerals 5. Romanisation 6. List of symbols 7. Writing samples

[edit] [top]History

Long time ago, before the mawic people settled down in the valley of Maw river, they used symbols, to mark their belongings. Every family had their own symbol. They were based on animals, other natural features, or abstract geometric shapes. These symbols were carved into wooden sticks, tool handles, or sewed on to their clothes. The AWM word for write is sã, which also means carve. It comes from the

Proto-Mawo-Caláic word kharan (carve).

After settling down in the Maw valley, they used paper, ink and brushes to write these symbols, and they developed a more sophisticated writing system, the sãgwá sãgwá. Ancient-Mawic script had a different version with more angular shapes, the kwusãgwá kwusãgwá. Kwusãgwá was carved into stone to decorate temples and palaces.

[edit] [top]Usage

In the earlier times several sãgwá symbols were used as alphabetic charactes, to express more accurate meanings.

áç-ükwí sũ-kájü sinit-ükwí-turjo
Áç-ü sũ-k sinit-ü-t.
The king married the woman.
áç-ükwí sũ-kájü sinit-ükwí -turjo
king-dog woman-house marry-dog-farm

In some contexts this might be confusing. Later sãgwá was expanded with new symbols. They call them ḑgáw-thál - ḑgáw-thál which means sound sign. The ḑgáwthál system was an alphabet, but it was only used to help out the old sãgwá characters.

áç-ü sũ-k sinit-üt
Áçü sũk sinitüt.
Áç-ü sũ-k sinit-üt.
The king married the woman.

Some ḑgáwthál characters are combined into ligatures to shorten the texts, they call them qu-thól - qu-thól, which comes from together+sign .

[edit] [top]Áqindá

Áqindá (hold name) is a long line above the word. It is used to mark proper nouns, such as name of people and places. It is romanised as "*".

Here are some examples:

ün-indá *seün, ú u-dú *máwa*d.
Ün-indá *Seün, ú u-dú *Máwa*d.
My name is Seün, and I live in Máwa.

[edit] [top]Numerals

Numerals are not easy. AWM uses a seximal base system. It has 10 symbols to mark numbers. The symbols are:

1 - 1
2 - 2
3 - 3
4 - 4
5 - 5
6 - 6
7 - 36
8 - 1296
9 - 46656
0 - 1679616

These symbols are used together with other non numeral characters, like:

2ú26-zin - 2 plus 2 (times) 6-of - 14
5ú567sin-ú567-zin - 5 plus 5 (times) 6 (times) 36of plus 5 (times) 6 (times) 36-of - 1295

To read more about AWM number system, check out this article

[edit] [top]Romanisation

In romanisation sometimes we use "-" to separate symbols, and to mark borders. For example the word: Ümẽt - I get/understand could be written as ümẽt, but we used the symbol üm (üm - beard) which might be misleading altough the pronounciation is the same. The right way to write is ü-mẽt - ü-mẽt.

[edit] [top]List of symbols

Single letters (ḑgáwthál): Vowels

Sign	IPA value	latin equivalent	Sign	IPA value	latin equivalent	Sign	IPA value	latin equivalent
a	a	a	á	a:	á	ã	ã	ã
e	ɛ	e	é	e:	é	ẽ	ɛ̃	ẽ
o	o	o	ó	o:	ó	õ	õ	õ
i	i	i	í	i:	í	ĩ	ĩ	ĩ
u	u	u	ú	u:	ú	ũ	ũ	ũ
ü	y	ü	ű	y:	ű	ë	ə	ë
ö	ø	ö	ő	ø:	ő

Single letters (ḑgáwthál): Consonants

Sign	IPA value	latin equivalent	Sign	IPA value	latin equivalent	Sign	IPA value	latin equivalent
b	b	b	p	p	p	f	f	f
m	m	m	n	n	n	ŋ	ŋ	ŋ
ñ	ɲ	ñ	z	z	z	d	d	d
th	tʰ	th	tw	tʷ	tw	t	t	t
ş	ʃ	ş	şw	ʃʷ	şw	s	s	s
ç	t͡ʃ	ç	çw	t͡ʃʷ	çw	j	ʒ	j
ḑ	d͡ʒ	ḑ	l	l	l	y	j	y
r	r	r	w	w	w	h	h	h
k	k	k	kw	kʷ	kw	g	g	g
gw	gʷ	gw	q	q	q	qh	qʰ	qh

Ligatures (Quthól)

Sign	latin equivalent	Sign	latin equivalent	Sign	latin equivalent	Sign	latin equivalent	Sign	latin equivalent
ek	ek	ak	ak	ok	ok	öd	öd	gin	gin
ük	ük	ön	ön	on	on	gon	gon	wöt	wöt
uk	uk	úb	úb	du	du	sin	sin	ik	ik
zin	zin	zon	zon	yu	yu	in	in	ŋk	ŋk
yü	yü	übg	übg	üby	üby	wot	wot	son	son
tu	tu	tuy	tuy	tug	tug	düş	düş	duş	duş
tü	tü	tüy	tüy	tüg	tüg	üt	üt	ut	ut
ot	ot	üd	üd	ëd	ëd	ëk	ëk	kũ	kũ
na	na	kú	kú	ig	ig	ãr	ãr	da	da
ke	ke	je	je	eh	eh	af	af	şe	şe
fẽ	fẽ	çi	çi	iç	iç	ez	ez	to	to
ad	ad	ki	ki	iz	iz	ga	ga	ug	ug
od	od	ud	ud	id	id	aş	aş	çu	çu

Logographs (Sãgwá)

Symbol	Ancient-Mawic meaning	English meaning	Symbol	Ancient-Mawic meaning	English meaning
dáw	dáw	sun/day	ükwí	ükwí	dog
ey	ey	moon	güm	güm	brain
édgü	édgü	gift	gwüb	gwüb	water
hes	hes	snake	turjo	turjo	farm
páb	páb	strong/letter p	aḑalő	aḑalő	tatch/reed
bugóno	bugóno	olive tree	kwu	kwu	corner/heel
sũ	sũ	woman	thig	thig	finger
ulo	ulo	yellow/yolk	adá	adá	no/not
ñút	ñút	need	çwöb	çwöb	milk
şwo	şwo	lip	thá	thá	in
twó	twó	flow/change	yep	yep	skin
ẽí	ẽí	hawk	yú	yú	two
öt	öt	back	sõ	sõ	rose
lapőnö	lapőnö	palm tree	ştekr	ştekr	deer
ŋges	ŋges	nose	jaraf	jaraf	wheat
mëyek	mëyek	trousers	do	do	poor
qũ	qũ	man	mẽt	mẽt	get/understand
ááş	ááş	bird	fúqu	fúqu	wind
mégü	mégü	saddle/chair	ḑará	ḑará	hoe
kájü	kájü	house	çówo	çówo	servant
nákü	nákü	horse	qhin	qhin	flower
fãp	fãp	half	dóq	dóq	cow
bardű	bardű	town	íh	íh	whole/healthy
gwís	gwís	fish	nlẽ	nlẽ	tongue
thíy	thíy	tree	ko	ko	wheel
kí	kí	saw (tool)	keh	keh	braid/twist
lá	lá	bag/patient suffix	lew	lew	ear
niq	niq	seed	súş	súş	fire
lep	lep	hand	qwú	qwú	girl/daughter
gawűr	gawűr	wine	yim	yim	teach
ge	ge	boy/son	fey	fey	leg/foot
gwá	gwá	thing	kif	kif	tooth
kwá	kwá	friend	qú	qú	brother/blood
áç	áç	king	üşü	üşü	axe
közű	közű	rooster	sãçáw	sãçáw	book
sez	sez	nest	thã	thã	member/part
jalü	jalü	beer	gza	gza	muscle
eű	eű	god	ket	ket	animal
ştẽh	ştẽh	believe	gú	gú	furnace/oven/hate
gu	gu	roll	şwã	şwã	be like
kşu	kşu	beget	mé	mé	sit
lehl	lehl	leaf	ne	ne	kill
şú	şú	hair	dé	dé	pray/worship
sã	sã	write	rehm	rehm	side/coast/edge/ect
wákwés	wákwés	bless	lu	lu	run
şwĩ	şwĩ	born	si	si	small
bin	bin	head	dú	dú	have,bear,contain,live
ké	ké	this	sek	sek	stone
súw	súw	bull	ed	ed	stand
ŋgúg	ŋgúg	cloud	çá	çá	storm
fa	fa	father/top/summit	lekü	lekü	soul
mád	mád	mother	rim	rim	buy/take
édĩ	édĩ	sell/betray	höf	höf	rain/fall
sinit	sinit	tie/connect/marry	keq	keq	know/can/dense/thick
fát	fát	speak/talk/say	ins	ins	store/pile/ect
fú	fú	push	fá	fá	type/race/kind of
ye	ye	spit	kin	kin	system/order
gjötr	gjötr	fruit	kĩ	kĩ	cold/wish/ect.
áã	áã	all/every	şwu	şwu	sand
gü	gü	oat	ün	ün	dig/or/my...
üg	üg	magic	üm	üm	beard
fu	fu	button	ög	ög	egg
thó	thó	field	dĩ	dĩ	heart
góg	góg	noise	dü	dü	orange
aşa	aşa	plough	gwu	gwu	gwu
waza	waza	aloe	küqşűq	küqşűq	confuse
ükü	ükü	smoke	ku	ku	soap
áq	áq	state/condition	gó	gó	work
dá	dá	be	gjimp	gjimp	shoulder
eb	eb	cover/forward	rá	rá	do
kşam	kşam	cease (to exist)/end	ríşü	ríşü	floor/soil/earth
éd	éd	give	éh	éh	as/adjectivizer
hút	hút	blow	segíy	segíy	metal
sekweb	sekweb	bronze	béb	béb	baby
se	se	free/without	sĩ	sĩ	eye
zdu	zdu	pot	ba	ba	up
pmfew	pmfew	onion	şeq	şeq	material/entity
lehlá	lehlá	eagle	tef	tef	donkey
seün	seün	crow	din	din	chin/jaw
yí	yí	cherry	meqz	meqz	cat
gwí	gwí	to go	íhtü	íhtü	build/heal
bökü	bökü	here	kezeh	kezeh	too(eg. too big ect.)
twüf	twüf	yet/already	üzeb	üzeb	simple/just/only
eg	eg	out	iŋgüd	iŋgüd	around
ptáh	ptáh	before	qwë	qwë	after
töh	töh	down	töhtáh	töhtáh	under
bethá	bethá	above	gjit	gjit	between
gja	gja	against	áíŋg	áíŋg	some
drtehq	drtehq	rich	ááşüns	ááşüns	owl
leşü	leşü	wash/bend	di	di	virgin
ŋgẽ	ŋgẽ	eat	lefá	lefá	drink
keçü	keçü	come/arrive/owe	neçt	neçt	want
heşt	heşt	share/divide/split	ejd	ejd	value
bökrẽ	bökrẽ	bring	dëd	dëd	old
nle	nle	good	theq	theq	full
töŋk	töŋk	empty	máh	máh	big
druq	druq	clan/community	indá	indá	name
knişt	knişt	almost	la	la	beautiful
gjiŋgk	gjiŋgk	nail	báşes	báşes	frog
gúm	gúm	butt	mẽdgwő	mẽdgwő	bridge
gwó	gwó	through	tsánsël	tsánsël	lamb
beé	beé	sheep	siŋg	siŋg	meat
twüs	twüs	place	kízes	kízes	what/who(rel.)
ses	ses	what/who(int.)	kízeştü	kízeştü	when(rel.)/then
seştü	seştü	when(int.)	seşteüs	seşteüs	where(int.)
kízeşteüs	kízeşteüs	where(rel.)	míes	míes	hide
yeht	yeht	show/point/present	seziŋg	seziŋg	why(int.)
kízeziŋg	kízeziŋg	why(rel.)/because	sezeb	sezeb	how(int.)
kízezeb	kízezeb	how(rel.)/that way(method)	sezg	sezg	how many/much (int.)
kízezg	kízezg	that much	detü	detü	see
thãgü	thãgü	piece/part	gi	gi	many/much
feç	feç	hit	fdeç	fdeç	beat
qşúq	qşúq	disturb/exile/banish	twüşteh	twüşteh	instead
çumpõ	çumpõ	tar	twüştüq	twüştüq	there
lin	lin	burn	qrsim	qrsim	use
krĩşt	krĩşt	past	nind	nind	begin/start
krsál	krsál	save	yát	yát	neck
fiŋg	fiŋg	spear	qrew	qrew	room
sedãáh	sedãáh	sword	kweş	kweş	bow
yegweq	yegweq	to taste	sẽgwá	sẽgwá	couch
thál	thál	sign/mark	máwa	máwa	name of a river/people
fës	fës	to sleep	yed	yed	to fight
beij	beij	cucumber	fikk	fikk	drop (N)
wúbú	wúbú	boat/ship	lind	lind	valley
çégü	çégü	origin/to come from...	nlëps	nlëps	mouth
çüw	çüw	grass/herb	krĩşt	krĩşt	past
leban	leban	settlement	kwés	kwés	to effect
eyeşk	eyeşk	wonder (N)	ñikü	ñikü	to open
meştẽ	meştẽ	holy	iŋgü	iŋgü	lot/pile/heap
këifin	këifin	wild	gjĩs	gjĩs	gap/absence
dfuf	dfuf	stab	hó	hó	old
mo	mo	nipple	ekm	ekm	thigh
leüş	leüş	young	yeşü	yeşü	fast
ta	ta	ankle	mó	mó	testicle
şüki	şüki	to crack	he	he	bald
tekr	tekr	elbow	de	de	hip
qhẽr	qhẽr	temple (side of the head)	myuk	myuk	to prefer
limp	limp	shoe/sandal/boot	qwöjgű	qwöjgű	sin/crime
qŋgëtr	qŋgëtr	to loose	qŋëgt	qŋëgt	elegant
ëuq	ëuq	sacrafical victim	túgz	túgz	hill
şëy	şëy	to deviate	eűŋkőjü	eűŋkőjü	temple (building)
uŋëgd	uŋëgd	to pull	túg	túg	mountain
bẽleq	bẽleq	wool	lihlü	lihlü	feather
egãq	egãq	council/court/advice	bõ	bõ	blunt(adj.)
çĩüy	çĩüy	land	nüŋg	nüŋg	knee
kwáf	kwáf	duck (n.)	nzĩká	nzĩká	basic/essential
kulum	kulum	to bake	höbgü	höbgü	rain
lúũ	lúũ	to flee/run away	kügü	kügü	bundle
áw	áw	various/mixed	wá	wá	to finish
keyf	keyf	to examine/measure/analyse	fís	fís	restless
keşü	keşü	any	dönrã	dönrã	stupid
táw	táw	view/deny	úuş	úuş	air
beç	beç	thin	pintĩ	pintĩ	sock
nştikreq	nştikreq	ice	qrtah	qrtah	rat
qũoh	qũoh	giant	fegj	fegj	mole
ráq	ráq	collect/gather	nwá	nwá	victim/killed
şíw	şíw	smooth/plat	qdneyg	qdneyg	flatten
ẽşwẽgk	ẽşwẽgk	greet	thkák	thkák	foal
reqsĩ	reqsĩ	anger	qrşüd	qrşüd	be certain/sure
zgef	zgef	further	yiŋgwá	yiŋgwá	n. study/teaching
işwã	işwã	n. fat	ḑane	ḑane	sickle
çwöŋg	çwöŋg	v. endeavour	kşügü	kşügü	n. lie
gãggü	gãggü	n. pioson	qwedgü	qwedgü	message
yaã	yaã	v. win	átkens	átkens	battleground
qhök	qhök	branch/stick/stilt	-	-	-

[edit] [top]Writing samples

Here's some longer sample written in AWM:

The Lord's Prayer
áçrí-n délígü
Áçrí-n délígü

übgünfa, gwud,
wákwéskĩ dünindá.
keçükĩ dünáçgwá.
ráwakĩ düneçitgü çĩüyüd éh gwud.
kédáwön tídesk déder úbguf,
ú düqwöjgüqür übgünqwöjgűgik, éh übgünqwöjgűgin qwöjgígif.
ú duşúthóskũ qhísegüd adá, ú dükwáhkĩ qũguzon gusmóqbogozon.
kízeziŋg dáç áçgwák, qçwönk, ú yaãgwák.
twód áãd, amen.

The tower of Babel
bábel-ön insgwá
Bábel-ön insgwá

kízeştü ríşü-d áã-d nlẽ-k dáéh-k tü-fát-ag-üt. kízezeb ejaé-n éd tü-mihn-üt, thó-k lind-id şinar-ön çĩüy-üd tu-tu-wot, ú twüştüq-üd dú-fó tün-indüt. kúqwë üks-üf tü-fát-üt: "de-keçü-r! thãgü-si-gik dü-fárár ú súş-ud tü-lin-ir." késeziŋg thãgük tü-qrsim-üt sek-ü twüşteh, ú çumpõk wajű twüşteh. ekü tü-fát-ü: "de-keçü-r! bardű-k úbg-uf düg-íhtü-r, ú insgwák, fa-s gwu-d, ú tü-nak-ar úbg-uk, késeziŋg-if tü-mihn-kĩ ũ adá ríşü-n áã-n yebged fé-d."

kéqwë eű töh-öd gwí-wöt bardű-k ú insgwá-k kízesk qũn gẽeh-egü íhtü-wöt detü-fá. eű kúqwë fát-at: "de-sez-er! üs qũ, üs nlẽs tü-dá, ú kék tü-nind-thãt rá-gü-fá. tü-keq-rim-ethã-t-eq kú-k tü-krşĩüdöq-fá a-dá. de-keçü-r! töh-öd übg-gwí-r, tügün-nlẽ-k küqşűq-fá, késeziŋg tü-mẽt-ẽq a-dá üks-ük." ú eű qũ-guk ríşü-n áã-f qşúq-wot ũ, ú bardű-n íhtü-fá tü-kşam-üt. késeziŋg bardű bábel-ü indárá-wöt, kízeziŋg eű qũ-gon áã-gin küqşűq-üt, ú eű tüg-ük twüştüq-sin ríşü-n áã-n yebg-ef qşúq-ut ũ.

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[link] [quote] [move] [edit] [del] 29-May-20 14:18 [Deactivated User]

I love this. It must have taken a long time but the results are amazing.

[link] [quote] [move] [edit] [del] 28-May-20 20:15 [Deactivated User]

This is an extremely creative and aesthetically pleasing script! It's clear you worked very hard on it.

[link] [quote] [move] [edit] [del] 26-May-20 23:23 [Deactivated User]

This is probably one of the coolest script systems I've seen on CWS. It looks really good!