Hagt script



The Hagt script is a writing system used to write the Hagt language.

History
The Hagt script is part of the Koolpallian family of scripts of Noco. It is descendant from the Taot script, which evolved into the Old Hagt script which in turn derived the Hagt script.

When Old Hagt was first standardised, the Classical Taot script was more curvilinear and written in a bottom-to-top and top-to-bottom boustrophedon due to the availability of new writing materials. It was adopted without much change, except for the repurposing of the ts letter for the sound /m/, which was not present in Classical Taot.

The script was rotated 45° in order to be more easily written in long strips of papyrus. This caused various letters to be modified, and, for the ease of reading, various diacritics were created from smaller versions of letters or regular shapes to represent short vowels, voicing and gemination.