Aiha
of Ursula Le Guin

Mattias Persson & Ian James
© May 2018

script name

This charming script is described in an appendix to Ursula Le Guin’s scifi/ethnographic novel Always Coming Home of 1985. It was used for the language of the Kesh, a race of humans living on Earth in the distant future.

A script for the Kesh language

This chart of letters is adapted from Mattias Persson’s, which was in turn adapted from a chart by AnonMoos. The /z/ suffix is used morphemically.

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Photo by Dana Gluckstein
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