Alphabets

When I was creating my first conlang, Avihalli, I used as my inspiration for the script the elvish alphabets of J.R.R. Tolkien, both the angular cirth and the more rounded tengwar. I had read how the tengwar were arranged into series by phonetic quality, and attempted a similar concept. Of course, as I had neither any formal linguistic training nor the layout of the tengwar in front of me for reference at the time, I simply sounded out each character of the English alphabet and put them down in columns where I thought they had similar qualities. Thus the order of the letters in each series, and indeed the order of the series, reflects the English alphabetical order. If I had it to do all over again, I would have the whole thing make more sense from a phonetic standpoint, but I've gone too far now to go back.

Recognizing that the Avihalli script, which I'd just borrowed for Tigerian/Tegirenai, was instantly recognizable as a poor imitation of Tolkien, I attempted a few times over the years to come up with a better one, including a cursive/handwriting version and a version that turned each letter on its side, with all the stems connected and looking a bit like Ogham, using small marks to indicate vowels (still a bit like Tolkien):

Tigerian Cursive

Tigerian Line

None of these were really satisfactory, though, and every now and again I'd revisit the idea of a whole new script. In late 2018, I made the current Tegirenai script, which while still based on the old Avihalli letters has at least a form more removed from the runes of Thorin's map.

Tegirenai letters are on the right, Avihalli letters on the left.

Vowels
A			E			I			O			U			W*			Y
a	a		e	e		i	i		o	o		u	u		w	w		y	y

Consonants
	1		2		3		4		5		6		7
1	B		C		F		G		L		Q*		S
1	b	b	c	c	f	f	g	g	l	l	q	q	s	s
2	D		K^†		H		J		R		V		Z
2	d	d	k	k	h	h	j	j	r	r	v	v	z	z
3	P				T		M				X*
3	p	p			t	t	m	m			x	x
4							N
4							n	n
+H					TH								SH
+H					þ	þ							ç	ç

* Letters not used in Tegirenai but may be used in transliterating foreign words.
^† Letter not used in Tegirenai or Avihalli, but may be used in transliterating foreign words.