Translitterator

This is a translitterator that takes text that you give it and it converts it into a fictional script that I made up. The region where this script is/was used is covered in a thick jungle, so sentences are read from bottom to top (as the tree grows) and are punctuated by the little frond at the top.

Part of the inspiration for making this was the Shavian Alphabet. It's a very cool reimagining of english orthography, but I can't help but think that the fact that most of the characters have a mirror image must make reading it even more difficult for dyslexic people. This is the set of rules I used when making the characters:

• Each character connects at the top and bottom center (so that they connect with each other).
• Each character can be written without lifting the pen from the page (except for punctuation).
• No character has a mirror image and can be correctly written mirrored across the vertical "stem".
• I tried to make it so that only vowels had loops in them, but this didn't work.

Alphabet key:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Space)
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The code does the following thigs before it does the actual translitteration:

• All letters are converted to lowercase.
• All numbers are converted to consonants.
  • I primarily did this because I was running out of squiggles that are within the rules listed at the top.
  • I didn't use vowels to make it harder to accidentally read a number as a word.

  • 0	Z
    1	M
    2	W
    3	T
    4	F
    5	V
    6	X
    7	S
    8	G
    9	N

• Exclamation points are converted to periods.
• All other unrecognized characters are deleted