Despite the that the HWCS is basically dead, I have continued working on Imperial Giantish, the language of (ironically enough) the Giant Empire. This was partly because Giant culture is so fascinating, and partly because all the work I had already done on the language wasn't adaptable to my own fantasy worlds. Since, I imagine, the HWCS will probably never become a published novel, I plan on using Imperial Giantish for fun.

This script is a featural system. It is a truly phonetic script (like Korean Han'gul), reflecting the actual phonemes of Imperial Giantish. It is traditionally written in lines (columns) running top to bottom, columns preceding from left to right.

This is cumbersome in terms of handwriting, but it remains conventional form for several reasons: Giants do not write (especially hand-write) for recreation purposes, the upper classes do not hand-write at all, and the lower classes are expected to do whatever the higher classes tell them to do.

In fact, violating language standards is a considered a sign of under-advanced behavior, and can result in criminal punishment or even being demoted to robot (a kind of slave, considered only sub-human). The worst offenders will be banished, labelled as non-men, and possibly turned into Drun.



If you're curious about how to pronounce Giantish, you'll have to be patient. That information will be posted elsewhere and elsewhen.