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|name = Scratch-signs | |||
|scope = [[Kemish]]; [[Brightmarch]] | |||
|related_languages = [[Aserdian]] | |||
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[[File:Kemish_scratch-sign.svg|thumb|Example of a scratch-sign, meaning "community" or "[[Kemish]]"]] | [[File:Kemish_scratch-sign.svg|thumb|Example of a scratch-sign, meaning "community" or "[[Kemish]]"]] | ||
'''Scratch-signs''' are a type of logograms used primarily by the [[Kemish]] of [[Brightmarch]]. This system is typically used to write the [[Aserdian]] language, but it can be adapted to other languages as needed. Scratch-signs are designed to be easily marked into surfaces, and therefore are largely patterns of straight lines that can be made quickly and without specialized tools. | |||
Though they are also used to write on paper, clay, or other transportable mediums, scratch-signs are primarily etched into rock faces, trees, or other locations in which they can be easily found in the future. When used in this way, the logograms inform future travelers of possible dangers, resources, or other nearby locations. They are also widely used to write records of events and special occurrences, or simply to note that someone passed through an area. | |||
This logographic system is ever-growing in complexity and size. In addition to the standard (if very large) set of symbols, it is traditional for each Kemish that learns to write using scratch-signs to develop a personal sign to represent their own name. Some choose to have these symbols written on themselves using either tattooing or scarification. | |||
The writing system has not been widely adopted outside the Kemish, though some other nomadic groups of Brightmarch do make use of it on occasion as an enduring means of communicating with each other across indeterminate times. Sometimes tribes use the logograms to mark out places that are important to their own [[ancestor worship|ancestor]] or [[animism|nature spirits]], almost as a request for others to not defile or alter the location. | |||
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Latest revision as of 18:49, 20 January 2024
Scratch-signs are a type of logograms used primarily by the Kemish of Brightmarch. This system is typically used to write the Aserdian language, but it can be adapted to other languages as needed. Scratch-signs are designed to be easily marked into surfaces, and therefore are largely patterns of straight lines that can be made quickly and without specialized tools.
Though they are also used to write on paper, clay, or other transportable mediums, scratch-signs are primarily etched into rock faces, trees, or other locations in which they can be easily found in the future. When used in this way, the logograms inform future travelers of possible dangers, resources, or other nearby locations. They are also widely used to write records of events and special occurrences, or simply to note that someone passed through an area.
This logographic system is ever-growing in complexity and size. In addition to the standard (if very large) set of symbols, it is traditional for each Kemish that learns to write using scratch-signs to develop a personal sign to represent their own name. Some choose to have these symbols written on themselves using either tattooing or scarification.
The writing system has not been widely adopted outside the Kemish, though some other nomadic groups of Brightmarch do make use of it on occasion as an enduring means of communicating with each other across indeterminate times. Sometimes tribes use the logograms to mark out places that are important to their own ancestor or nature spirits, almost as a request for others to not defile or alter the location.