Edun script

The Edun script is a set of graphic signs based on the glyphs of the Edun logography.

History
The ancestor of the Edun script was a logography, originating soon after Thirēan peoples migrated to the Central Regions. At this time, glyphs were carved into stone. Over time, this glyphs came to be used more flexibly, increasingly in the direction of syllabic encoding while retaining some logographic use. Another notable shift was switching from stone to palm leaves as the default medium of encoding, leading to an increasingly curvilinear glyph shape. As sound changes occurred, inconsistencies in spelling reforms and systemic uses began to arise, varying wildly across provinces.

Shortly after the founding of the first Empire of the Sun (the period of Ancient Edun), scribes decided to standardize the script, creating a system called sopfyekhtsut (lit. "opened writing") and a standard spelling. This system was enforced by royal mandate, resolving many problems with the system.

Later rulers of the Empire refused to update the script, believing the traditions of their ancestors to be sacred and ignoring rampant sound changes in the language. By the time of Classical Edun, the writing system had remained untouched for a thousand years, and its divergence from the spoken language left it one of the most difficult writing systems in history. However, as the script had never been use by the lower class, this complexity helped to further the gap between the upper and lower classes.

Children Systems
The people of Nekāchta first encountered the Edun script during the time of Old Nekāchti. Recognizing the script's needless complexity, and free of the Empire of the Sun's religious doctrine, the Nekāchti based their own script on a heavily modified and simplified version of the Edun script. The Nekāchti script was quickly adopted by other True Thirēan languages, and was eventually adapted to transcribe Ilothwii (albeit with heavy modifications to accommodate Ilothwii's more complex phonotactics).

Trivia
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