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UDHR in Avonese

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This is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights written in a constructed language of mine called Avonese, which I began making almost four years ago when I was sitting on the balcony of the internet-free apartment of my grandparents in Budapest, Hungary. In my third and final year of high school, I made it into my project, which sped up development a lot, resulting in me being able to write this.

The reason I used the UDHR is because it's used as an example by a language site that I visit once a week called omniglot.com.

Romanized, it would look like this:

"Muŋfifydy łom o sạjš äv vrom ȟmannmoń, şạfifem łom äv allvurinım łom. Mạđkạ äv ṙạvṙ özdam äv eǧdørømạss-eǧdipridạss şutajim eǧdmorzınistor sạnminił."

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UPDATE:

Even as I was creating this, I had an idea for it to be used by elves in some sort of fantasy setting. When me and my friend finally came up with the idea for Hrek, I thought that would be a perfect place for it to be. In Hrek, Avonese is an elven language spoken on by the inhabitants of an island called Avonia ("Avonaj" in the language) and is a member of the Nasarunese family of elven languages. It is popularly known for being the "ugliest elven language", having developed numerous phonemes that are unusual to most other elven languages, and also for having developed a vertical and more stylized writing system, in contrast the the horizontal and more flowing script of its parent language: Akdabali. It split from Akdabali after the crew of the slave ship Noþurín became shipwrecked on Avonia and established a new society there.
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Ofbooksandballpoints's avatar
I feel this would lend itsself well to tapestries.