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Long Untold Sheikah Alphabet
By Sarinilli
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I made this YEARS ago when I made my other alphabets, and chose to never share it. I kept it to myself, secret, like the tribe it belongs too.
Truth be told I wasn't sure at the time if I may have other intentions for this alphabet, but it's kept it's association all these years.
I'm sharing the scan of my Sheikah alphabet now, for various reasons. Such as the fact that I find it somewhat ironic that the new Hylian in Skyward Sword somewhat resembles Sheikah, in a sense. The more looping letters are similar anyhow.
The overall alphabet has a rather rune inspired theme, and was designed to express what I think the Sheikah alphabet should look like.
Please be aware that this alphabet is free to use for personal use ONLY. The image above may not be uploaded elsewhere but you can link to me here. You are free to print the chart for personal use only in it's current unaltered form. Removing the "made by Sarinilli" at the bottom is not allowed under any circumstance.
• • • "For personal use only" rules • • •
• What is allowed: I mean if you use this on fanart you are more than welcome to upload it. If you want to write notes to friends, notes to yourself, paint words with this alphabet onto things for yourself (like folder, notebooks, shirts, your skin), feel free. For things like gift items, use in games (such as table top rpg's or sharing notes with friends), I only ask that you link them here so they know where you got the alphabet.
Things like permanent tattoo are questionable and if you want to get this on your skin permanently I ask that you please contact me first with your ideas.
• What is not allowed: Using this on anything you intend to sell. This alphabet (although called my Sheikah alphabet) is still a personal work of my own idea.
If you have further questions, comments or don't know what your intended use falls under, feel free to post below or note me and ask. :3
Truth be told I wasn't sure at the time if I may have other intentions for this alphabet, but it's kept it's association all these years.
I'm sharing the scan of my Sheikah alphabet now, for various reasons. Such as the fact that I find it somewhat ironic that the new Hylian in Skyward Sword somewhat resembles Sheikah, in a sense. The more looping letters are similar anyhow.
The overall alphabet has a rather rune inspired theme, and was designed to express what I think the Sheikah alphabet should look like.
Please be aware that this alphabet is free to use for personal use ONLY. The image above may not be uploaded elsewhere but you can link to me here. You are free to print the chart for personal use only in it's current unaltered form. Removing the "made by Sarinilli" at the bottom is not allowed under any circumstance.
• • • "For personal use only" rules • • •
• What is allowed: I mean if you use this on fanart you are more than welcome to upload it. If you want to write notes to friends, notes to yourself, paint words with this alphabet onto things for yourself (like folder, notebooks, shirts, your skin), feel free. For things like gift items, use in games (such as table top rpg's or sharing notes with friends), I only ask that you link them here so they know where you got the alphabet.
Things like permanent tattoo are questionable and if you want to get this on your skin permanently I ask that you please contact me first with your ideas.
• What is not allowed: Using this on anything you intend to sell. This alphabet (although called my Sheikah alphabet) is still a personal work of my own idea.
If you have further questions, comments or don't know what your intended use falls under, feel free to post below or note me and ask. :3
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It's not actually meant to write in English perfectly, no; though you can use it that way. Realistically if you want to spell things out "properly" for perfect English pronunciation you would write "sain" instead of "sign"; though to make matters easier, use the longer i in sign and that will work. :3
Now later down the line when I have more of the language work done, including English in actual Hylian texts will be treated as borrow words and in that case, will have to be spelled out for pronunciation and not actually spelled as the word is written in English.
I hope that helps. :3
Now later down the line when I have more of the language work done, including English in actual Hylian texts will be treated as borrow words and in that case, will have to be spelled out for pronunciation and not actually spelled as the word is written in English.
I hope that helps. :3

Oh! No, I need to fix the image or just oh, make a font. lol
This was drawn up so long ago that I didn't really know how to define the short and long i's so I just drew a line under the long one; they work the same as the i's in my Hylian alphabets do; the one at the top is a short i (like the i in "his", "it", "with" etc; the "long i" is like in "link", "sing", "king" etc. None of my alphabets have capitals, either.
As for how to use the compound letters, that works the same as with my Hylian too; if you want to write out "star" you can use the st letter or spell it all out individually. Unless say, you use "Star" as a name, then you have to stick with the spelling you chose for the name when writing the name out; like how the names Amy, Aimee, Amie etc all sound the same but can be spelled different ways. :3
This was drawn up so long ago that I didn't really know how to define the short and long i's so I just drew a line under the long one; they work the same as the i's in my Hylian alphabets do; the one at the top is a short i (like the i in "his", "it", "with" etc; the "long i" is like in "link", "sing", "king" etc. None of my alphabets have capitals, either.
As for how to use the compound letters, that works the same as with my Hylian too; if you want to write out "star" you can use the st letter or spell it all out individually. Unless say, you use "Star" as a name, then you have to stick with the spelling you chose for the name when writing the name out; like how the names Amy, Aimee, Amie etc all sound the same but can be spelled different ways. :3

>o< Hallu. I'm confuzzled on one thing. the part where it says, "Doubles the character it is placed over." >u< what do you mean by that? I mean, I love Legend of Zelda and every aspect of it. Cx Growing up it was the only thing that taught me in the darkest of times their is a hero in all of us.. So I love to get into every game and break it down to know everything about this amazing game series c: Pwease help me <3
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