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ABOUT KRYPTONESE
KRYPTONESE ALPHABET
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The Kryptonese Alphabet
by Al Turniansky
page originally located here
A brief real-world historical note
The Kryptonese alphabet consists of 118 letters. These are shown in the two tables below. (Sorry about the fact that there are two tables. That's because of some software limitations on my end.) The tables read from left to right, with each Kryptonese letter followed by its approximate English equivalent.
Vowel Sounds in the following
tables Notes on some other
letters
row 1, column 1/2 = "ee" as in
"meet"
row 3, column 3/4 = "g" as in "go", never as in "gym"
row 1, column
3/4 = "i" as in
"mitt"
row 4, column 5/6 = "ch" as in "chair"
row 2, column 1/2 = "i" as
in
"might"
row 5, column 1/2 = "ch" as in German "ich", Scottish "loch", Hebrew
row 3, column 7/8 = "o" as in
"go"
"Chanukah"
row 3, column 9/10 = "u" as in
"Luke"
row 7, column 7/8 = "y" as in "yes", never as in "sky"
row 5,
column 3/4 = "oy" as in
"boy"
row 8, column 1/2 = "th" as in "then"
row 5, column 5/6 = "a" as in
"father"
row 8, column 3/4 = "s" as in "pleasure"
row 5, column 7/8 = "aw"
as in
"saw"
row 9, column 1/2 = "th" as in "thin"
row 5, column 9/10 = "e" as
in "met"
row 6, column 1/2 = "ow" as in "cow"
row 6,
column 7/8 = "oo" as in "look"
row 6, column 9/10 = "a" as in
"fat"
row 7, column 3/4 = "u" as in "luck"
row 7,
column 9/10 = "a" as in "fate"
Punctuation Marks
Again, this table reads from left to right, with each Kryptonese punctuation mark followed by its approximate English equivalent.
Notes:
The "hyphen" (row 1, column 1/2) is primarily used
in names (i.e., Jor-el, Kal-el, etc.).
Row 1, columns 3/4 is the "open
quote". Row 1, columns 5/6 is the "close quote".
The "underline" (row 1,
columns 7/8) goes over the letters to be emphasized.
The "open
parentheses" (row 2, columns 7/8) goes over the first letter in the
parenthetcal comment.
The "close parentheses" (row 2, columns 7/8) goes
under the last letter in the parenthetcal comment.
Numerals
Again, this table reads from left to right, with each Kryptonese numeral followed by its English equivalent.
Grammar,
vocabulary
and other matters will be posted to this site at a later
date.
After the passing of Al Turniansky in 2008, linguist Darren Doyle created the "Bridwell Kryptonese" digital font that Al was unable to. It is based on Doyle's elegantly handwritten interpretation of Turniansky's bitmap designs shown above; and it is Doyle's font that is currently being used in the Superman family of comic books. It is available for download here, in the section labeled "Bridwell Kryptonese Version 1.0" a little bit down the page.
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