Oh, don't worry, I've been learning Ancient Egyptian on and off for about 20 years, lol. I've got a fair few books scattered around the place It formed the basis for a third of my BA dissertation as well, but I think I've forgotten a bit since then.MoonRightRomantic wrote:You are doing great. Egyptian uses the same logic as charades. Additional phonograms are used to clarify context just as you described. The same symbol could serve as a phonogram, logogram or semantogram depending on the context.sangi39 wrote:There's not much of an alphabetic element in there, annoyingly, but I'm sort of struggling to apply what I'm thinking about to a language I don't really know Eventually, though, you might be able to use "hand" as for o and "world" for v given the right circumstances, but I wouldn't think those would be their only reading, or even their main ones.
I would recommend buying a highly rated book on Hieroglyphics from Amazon, Barnes&Noble or iTunes. Unlike High Valyrian, there isn't a convenient wiki anywhere that explains how to learn it.
Anyway, yeah, I don't think you can come up with a suitable "alphabetic" High Valyrian logographic script without a) having a fairly detailed knowledge of the language (or at least some decent resources) and b) working it out step by step. It's all well and god saying vala "man" might stand in as v, u, etc., but why should that be the case?
Oh, and as I've mentioned before, I cannot recommend Clawgrip's Naduta highly enough. It's familiar if you've looked at Ancient Egyptian before, but the explanations and how it developed are as good as the stylistic awesomeness of the script itself