[OB] Glyph Translation Discussion (No Plot Spoilers)

This is a continuation of the glyph discussion from the Stormlight Archive Translation Guide. Please do not post plot-related spoilers in this thread. Nazh has infiltrated the Calligrapher's Guild and provided us with a very thorough analysis of Alethi glyphs, including a table of the component phonemes glyphmakers use as a starting point for Standard glyphs: I'm actually surprised how close we we got with deciphering some of them independently, given that we now know that the phone

I've been looking at the writing around this map: I've isolated the writing here, and adjusted the levels to improve readability. Because the regions outlined on the map are pretty close approximations of the Silver Kingdoms (albeit distorted ones), I've been working under the hypothesis that the writing translates as the names of those kingdoms, so that's how I've labeled them. My first observations are that the language appears to use a lot of diacritics, and that either the fi

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