Hagt script



The Hagt script is a writing system used to write Hagt and Lagmīnaklek.

Hagt orthography uses 13 basic letters: 9 consonant letters 4 vowel letters. There are also 5 diacritics used to represent short vowels, voicing and gemination. It is written without spaces between words (scriptio continua) in alternating directions, a system called boustrophedon.

Hagt and Lagmīnaklek are also written using a logography derived from the Koolpallalian logography. It is only used by the aristocracy who can afford to learn it.

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 boustrophedon, with lines alternating between bottom-to-top and top-to-bottom, 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 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.

Letters
The letters, diacritics and numbers are written using boustrophedon, with alternating left-to-right and right-to-left lines. Letter shapes are mirrored depending on the writing direction.

Diacritics
Hagt marks short vowels as diacritics above and below the letter. The final consonant of a word connects to the starting vowel of the following word. For example, the phrase mut an is written as mu ta n, not *mu t a n. If a syllable begins with a vowel sound, the letter mut an acts as a silent placeholder.

The letters b, d, g, z and rr are spelled with the corresponding unvoiced letters (p, t, k, s and r) and the circle diacritic, sat, above them.

Gemination are marked with a diacritic below the geminated letter.