Alternative Gemanic Alphabet

There is no real timeline attached to this just some random thinking I was doing. It is supposed to be a modern Gothic Alphabet for Germanic Languages it obviously has some issues though, highlighted in red.
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Very, very cool. Would be very useful/interesting to use for a modern East Germanic language conlang (like the one I'm attempting to construct).

Although I'd like to see the entirety of the alphabet "modernised" as well. Personally, I think I'd try to emphasise the differences between Latin and Gothic if I had to design a typeface
 
I was thinking that the Latin alphabet would still be dominate, the Latin looking typeface would be a result of printing press operators not wanting to create new letter so they would reuse the Latin one by rotating them for Gothic.
 
I was thinking that the Latin alphabet would still be dominate, the Latin looking typeface would be a result of printing press operators not wanting to create new letter so they would reuse the Latin one by rotating them for Gothic.

Lazy but effective.
 
Very, very cool. Would be very useful/interesting to use for a modern East Germanic language conlang (like the one I'm attempting to construct).

Although I'd like to see the entirety of the alphabet "modernised" as well. Personally, I think I'd try to emphasise the differences between Latin and Gothic if I had to design a typeface


If you don't mind me asking, what conlanguage are you trying to create?

There have been some in-depth discussions of Gothic development in my Amalingian Empire timeline, by sadly linguistics is pretty far over my head. I would love your feedback and suggestions!
 
I was thinking that the Latin alphabet would still be dominate, the Latin looking typeface would be a result of printing press operators not wanting to create new letter so they would reuse the Latin one by rotating them for Gothic.

Lazy but effective.

Isn't that basically where the misleading "Ye olde Inn" comes from? When English printers has to print words starting with a big thorn, ie "Þ", instead of creating this type, they used "Y" instead. Their set of letter types already contained this letter. After all, it was also used on the continent.
 
If you don't mind me asking, what conlanguage are you trying to create?

There have been some in-depth discussions of Gothic development in my Amalingian Empire timeline, by sadly linguistics is pretty far over my head. I would love your feedback and suggestions!

It's not really connected with any language, I was bored in class two years ago or so, and this is what came out of it.

Isn't that basically where the misleading "Ye olde Inn" comes from? When English printers has to print words starting with a big thorn, ie "Þ", instead of creating this type, they used "Y" instead. Their set of letter types already contained this letter. After all, it was also used on the continent.

If I remember correctly the "Y" thing started as a handwriting thing, but "Þ" use did die out because of lazy printers, or they were Dutch, or both.
 
I have been using a modified Gothic alphabet for years.
Dan I think that having Gothic as a liturgical languages is a great idea, have it used in all of the Arian churches.
I have some ideas about the future of Gothic , but as I have been bottling beer all afternoon I'll speak about them at another time.
 
Not sure if anyone here has already seen this, but this site has some pretty interesting Gothic fonts. I like "Skeirs" in particular for its modern sans-serif look.

If you don't mind me asking, what conlanguage are you trying to create?

There have been some in-depth discussions of Gothic development in my Amalingian Empire timeline, by sadly linguistics is pretty far over my head. I would love your feedback and suggestions!

Basically it's "what if East Germanic dominated West Germanic in Germany". It's an East Germanic language with some West Germanic characteristics, and its native range is basically everything north of the Speyer line (or so).

It also is in severe need of revision, because I started working on it years ago when I had much less of a clue about linguistics as I do now.
 
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