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Just a "little" something I had been working on in the past but hesitated to submit since I could not convert it to a font. I still have not found any free program that can convert this to a .ttf font, so if anyone is interested in doing so please contact me.

Anyways, I personally felt it was time that a uniform style of lettering for the inhabitants of the Realm of Twilight was made. Most of the characters are based off of architecture seen on the Palace in TP, while the rest are still based on the radial style of the designs.

The Twili alphabet contains 37 letters, 26 of them Primaries, 6 modifiers, and 5 emotional attachments. The letters are not based off the English alphabet verbatim, since Twili letters have completely different meanings (for example, Ooit is not literally the letter A, it's simply attached to the letter A when translating). Also, in the Twili language emotion is not literally expressed, but rather an attachment is added at the end of verbs to convey the emotion. For instance in English we would say "I angrily bash the peahat to death," where's in Twili it would come to a literal translation of "I beat the peahat to death" since the emotion is reflected in the attachment to the word 'beat'.

I also figured the Twili would write in a radial manner, starting their words from the center, moving up, and then placing the characters in a clockwise manner until the word is finished. However, I also figured to make things easier they'd have a standard left-to right form of writing.

The sounds of Twili letters are also based on Midna's vocalization in TP, since she most often announced the sounds "oo" "eet" "zuh" and "and eek." (Yes, I'm well aware her verbal lines were just reversed Japanese).

I can't think of anything else to say, so I guess I'll just answer the confusion in comments...
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:iconhyrule-traveler:
but how do you need to translate it from twili to english
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~JasminoCat May 4, 2013  New member
Neat! But isn't the twilight alphabet just the english alphabet bakwards in a fancy font? Or did you make this entirely on a new slate?
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:icons-u-k-e-i-s-u-x:
Reversed japanese? So, this is too?
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Mood: Love ~kid-masaki Oct 22, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I'm using this for my ask blog in one picture! It's very nice and interesting. :] Since there isn't really a Twili language, I'm just going straight from English (similar to writing in Hylian from TP.) I'll be sure to credit you!
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~RPG123 Sep 23, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
SO COOL! Even though I don't really understand how to use it XD
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:iconkitsune913:
rlly? reversed japanese?? i did not know that! thats cool.. yay! now i can write my hw in this language and confusse the hell out of my teachers!!
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:iconxcongiex:
What format is it in and what programs have you tried to convert it into a .ttf
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~KeybladeMaster-Aqua Mar 8, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
That's awesome!! o_o
But how did youget to the 'Uka'
In the sentence?
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:iconundyingnephalim:
It's just the word I made up for dance.
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