The new year is almost here. I am excited to keep growing the learning materials here on this site and eventually also making some lesson videos. I want 2025 to be the Year of Hisyëö.
üsën nëös onö bı cokyen hoi öfo. noyo lı hizon oxon xe wuitsi xe liun mötowo kon bëüdo hoi boxö öfo ün bı zelen bı ütok sobıs non kon bëüdo. noyo fölun üsën 2025 xe lı üsën yë hiskünco Hisyëö.
We did a lot in 2024 and I'd like to take a minute to reflect on some of the accomplishments:
- Added many pages in the reference guide. The site is now at a point where everything should have at least some coverage somewhere. You could fully learn the language now by using this site.
- Added tons of added details to the lessons which help give many common sentences and important topics when navigating the world with this language as your primary communicative toolbox.
- Finished all of the Shannon Test Sentences and The North Wind and The Sun fable.
- Translated over 50% of the children's story A Poor Count's Christmas.
- Maintained flashcards on Memrise and now Deckademy with all the many updates to the phonology and lexicon along the way.
- Finished the language in the sense that the grammar is now set in stone and the lexicon is robust enough to handle the translating I've done so far.
- Completed an abugida and implemented a font that properly kerns the various abugida characters
- Designed a featural syllabary that has symbols for all possible Hisyëö phonemes and am about 30% complete on implementing all the SVGs in FontForge
That's quite a bit of work and it's just the first real year of Hisyëö development. For 2025, we plan to do so much more:
- Finish translating A Poor Count's Christmas
- Finish the syllabary and add it to the site
- Finish the remaining written lessons
- Write and record the first set of video story lessons.
- Translate another work of literature.
- Write a series of blog posts about printmaking of the syllabary.
I hope you stick around, check out the content and learn this language in the new year.
Wishing you all the best ahead,
Team Hisyëö