Fun Fact! Logos' chapter 11 art, E2 art, and S1 ring all spell "Scribo Imperium" or "Scribo Imperiumvoco" multiple consecutive times. That roughly translates to "I write the domain" or "I write and speak the domain" It's a domain expansion. His casting is just "DOMAIN EXPANSION DOMAIN EXPANSION DOMAIN EXPANSION"
Also, we know some extra words (And can probably derive meaning from them) from the IS5 menu UI (Which would give us an approximate or direct translation with the UI they represent), such as Esqa Lonam, Tesauro, Tabulo, or Sarağul. There's also the already known words like Sarkaz, "Those without home", Teekaz, "Those with home", Kazdel, "Homeland", Wis'adel "Wishing for (a) home", and probably names such as Laqeramaline Duq'khanfaliz (Aefanyl's mother) or Duq'arael (The Sanguinarch)
it is imperium voco scribo, "i write, therefore i command". he says it in game he also has a hidden line in his e2 art which probably says (because some of the words are too hidden) cresco iunci ravi supra collem dominae non errabits banshee
@@taka_0012 the doctor had to relearn a lot of things after he woke up he would remember stuff afterdoing it like relearning sarkaz, also im not sure about sarkaz being an first civilization language but the docter would definitely learned sarkaz before losing his memories
@@Pertiopa Doctor woke up the first time, he/she didn't lose his/her memory. Kal'sit says the sarcophagus does not remove memories. If the language of the first civilization was Sarkaz, why would the Doctor have to relearn it, when it's his/her language? That's what I'm asking. And in my opinion, the Sarkaz alphabet is the Talos-2 civilization alphabet. It was said by Doctor him/herself, that Sarkaz took its civilization form from Talos-2. He/she even woke up, and spoke with kal'sit using the unknown language (the language of the first civilization). without having to learn, he/she has activated his language unconsciously.
@taka_0012 the other thing that comes to mind it that the other languages on Terra resemble our real world languages, yet this one doesn't really resemble anything we have in the same way that Ursine is Russian, for example. I've heard that the Sarkaz language might most likely be Yiddish, while the Teekaz language could very well be Hebrew. It also kind of lines up with how the Banshees' arts work. To me, how their arts work brings to mind where the concept of golems originated, and 'words of power' being a key thing to make the golem work in said story.
@@taka_0012 The text written in first civ language isn't what is spoken by the sarkaz or other species on terra. If it were the doctor would have understood them right away. This written language is not remotely common on Terra otherwise we'd see it everywhere. The only location we see it is on the amiya conversion menu meaning it's specific to the civilite eterna, which is a first civ piece of technology. The only other places we might be able to see such a language would be cearula arbor, the stargate, or the celestial fulcrum (aka. The Law). Additionally with regards to logos, the Sarkaz rely on a bloodline of Teekaz that fused with originium, with the CE at its epicenter. These abilities are drawn from and originate from the CE and first civ technology. Also most of what floats around logos basically says "emperium" or some such. Further, as far as we know, Talos 2 does not contain a single Teekaz/Sarkaz civilization and we know Talos 2 was an anchor point for the first civ, being an important and strategic point they had (source: babel/ep14)
One thing I can say They probably did the same on Ex Astris, since that game even has it's main songs have an alien language. Makes you think they really put a lot of thought on world building The song is "Ottobesser"
Good video, but it's about the ALPHABET, not the language. The language itself is based on various real world semitic language like Aramaic, Arabic and Hebrew. (In fact, every language in Arknights is just a variation of real world languages. Teekaz/Sarkaz is noteworthy because it's less directly copied from the source material.) It's honestly a fascinating topic of its own. As for the alphabet, I'd like to point out that the scripts used for those languages (especially Ancient South Arabian and Geʽez) are also weirdly geometric because they're in a transitional state simplified from the original pictograms but not adapted to be quickly written by hand. I'm not convinced that the Sarkaz alphabet is directly based on any of those scripts, but it might be an influence on its graphical design. And one more thing, which another comment already mentioned: The Teekaz/Sarkaz might've adopted their alphabet from the civilization that the Doctor and Kal'tsit belonged to, potentially through the Civilight Eterna (which Amiya's module's story shows stores memories by members of that civilization). You brought up that it's seemingly designed to be displayed, rather than written by hand. I think so too, but displayed by computers rather than originium arts. (If the theory is correct, the alphabet is likely way older than originium itself).
Noteworthy: Sarkaz didn't do Originium Arts, they do Witchcraft, which is not the same (Though Logos is working on a theory to unify Arts and Witchcraft, since he seemed to notice similarities). Also, Sarkaz as a language is based on latin too. There's plenty of Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic, but plenty of Latin stuck in there as well
Hoederer would be proud. Absolutely stellar work! I came into this thinking I'd just watch someone talk about the Sarkaz alphabet, but in addition to that I got a video talking about how real life language, alphabet, and typography work, AND a look into a really cool typeface project for the Sarkaz alphabet! I really hope they release Sarkaz Serif as an actual usable font in the future!
Linguistics my beloved..... And it's from the game I'm currently having some kind of hyperfixation towards the lore too.... Thank you for sharing this!
I’m glad that I was still able to share something insightful even if this subject is outside of my own area of expertise. If you want to others who can talk way more about the linguistic aspect of Sarkaz, I highly suggest joining the Arknights Wiki discord server (and I do believe they’re looking for linguists atm).
13:34 you made me think about one detail in old sarkaz architecture. It's always adding and reshaping. Houses builded one to another, originium crystals in walls not removed but mixed with other things. Even Soul furnance is metal shapes layering each on another like sarkaz keep adding pieces overtime. Even sarkaz themselves are giving their names to each other either by creating one based upon personality or claiming it from passed away people. Maybe sarkaz language looks like shapes because earlier they reshaped different pieces of metal and added it on metal piece bigger, just like with soul furnance.
When you pointed out the small gaps in sarkaz letters that don't make sense for most writing forms, I had another idea for how they might have come about. Sarkaz culture also places tremendous significance on weapons, so my idea is that perhaps this script was originally carved, such as with a knife or sword.
In the world of the First Civilization, thoughts and feelings are transferred instantly. So one can imagine a single line of their "text" must include an underlying mountainous amount of data. AK has left me in shock over and over
I never thought that a video about a gacha game could educate me about the history of fonts and how they are made, this is the same as the lecture material I studied at my uni. anyway impressive video
And this is why you don't push back editing to the last minute and think you can get away exporting a video without QC (；一_一). Thank you for the catch!
@stef2337 I could imagine there is some troll in HG that use their own made up language to say "yo mama's gay" or smth to someone who are willing to translate it XD.
Seaborn don't have language since they don't have their own culture and a need of identifier that connect them with same interest since they more focus on their survival instinct. I think what you referring to is previous civilization language
That was a really nice watch! I've always been interested in the story of Arknights, so learning more about one of its languages, something I didn't think about until now, was really cool.
this video was really really cool and interesting. i love anthropology facts and i learned a lot i didn't know about different scripts and languages from this video! and the explanations about the sarkaz language was really good, it's such a small detail in the grand scheme of arknights lore, so i'm really impressed by just how deep the lore iceberg goes on this topic. arknights worldbuilding and lore is my favorite thing ever ❤
Nice, this is a cool project to follow. For example, I play mtg and there is a dedicated group of fans who actively decipher an invented script language for one of the game's BBEG. *Phyrexian language if anyone is interested.
Even though there were not much of editing, it is still a great video. Somehow this linguistic-bomb in Endfield went completely under the radar for me. Can totally agree on importance of languages, as well as the fact that we almost always take them for granted. But still.. running Babel OST throughout the whole video is just cruel, lol I though I already started to recover from it a bit, but you just pressed the dagger into a yet fresh wounds 😭 Thank you
Another masterpiece! Outstanding summary and explanation of Arknights' world construction. HG has indeed put in an unimaginable effort here, which is not what we usually look for in Gacha Games...... But it is a great undertaking, worth the effort, without a doubt.
I would love to see you take a look at the rune script that was invented for the anime Madoka Magica. It's a script, not a language, but it has at least three different versions, and the fandom spent quite a long time to figure them out.
shouldve covered Honkai Star Rail instead since they have a language for each planet you go to, with intergalactic basic in the herta space station, belobogian on jarilo-VI, xianzhouan (probably the most interesting one, since the language does not contain vowels, example being kafka's name written as"KFK") on the Luofu, and Penaconian on Penacony.
Unfortunately I don’t play HSR nor am I a part of the HSR community so I stuck with what I’m most familiar with. HSR’s languages do sound interesting though!
The theories I have given this are that Sarkaz was based off symbols they saw on the Ancients' technology and warships, or, it was a certain researcher's pet project as we know the *other* languages and races not endemic to Terra all trace back to Priestess.
Hello HalfACupOfRice, do you think you could share with us the "Sarkaz font" used through the video? It's really cool looking and I'd love to be able to use it for some Arknights related stuff I make sometimes
I'll make another video announcing where I sourced Sarkaz script but I'll share you the link directly: github.com/lhclbt/Endfield_Font/blob/main/README_en.md (credit for the typesetting of the script goes to Butan)
I mean, they could use their hands and weapons to write it too(considering the level of hostility and danger in kazdel, to the point we're even children need weapons)maybe knifes/dagger since they're fairly common and easy to make, i can see the 3 dot being you carving in stone/wood with the knife, the "A" is you shaving it, Z just make some triangles and then rip off the bark or just more material etc etc Considering their situation and the world in general, i think they rarely if ever write it, just use magic and see phone/computer text since technology is easy to get in arknights and is fairly common for mercenaries too(and a lot of sarkaz are mercs), if they write it is probably using some wood/stone carving tool and raw strength(once again reminding you that they are really strong, they might as well just puncture a tree/boulder with a knife and make holes in it to write too)
It wouldn't surprise me if the Sarkaz alphabet was inspired by the Combine font from Half Life 2. You can really see the connection with the Sarkaz "C" and "U"
Are you sure its a language, what if its just an alphabet, to my knowledge sarkaz is a species just like human is a species and human has a lot of language. I mean, the symbol 'u' in russian and english is pronounced differently.
The Sarkaz language may exist since the game does distinguish it from english in the dialogue but the Sarkaz script is for the most part a typeface or font for the english alphabet, except for the few outliers which don't make sense as shown in the video
From what I have heard, Sarkaz early on was based primarily on other languages. However as Arknights has continued to evolve, we’ve seen a unique lexicon for the Sarkaz language. What we can say for certain is that our understanding of Sarkaz is evolving as we discover new information about Sarkaz which Hypergryph is continuing to release.
Sarkaz-pre-originium species or Teekaz the native inhabitants of Terra, previously has physical as what they're depicted with various real life demon tales etc.
Imagine if Doctors civ just stopped writing all together but just communicate telepathically most of the time and record and code using giga computers. This ancient language also has the natural command of pure supernatural power not connected with originium
When it comes to languages from a game, Warframe always comes to mind because theres factions and they all use different languages. Idk i just thought it would be a fun fact
I had a feeling i saw those symbols before and looks like it was about Ex Astris, the in game language has similar symbols although its not 1:1 copy, guess the same language creator was hired for both of them.
Very interesting video, gives me a lot of food for thought! Would you mind sharing the regular and serif font tables as .ttf files? The serif version is especially curious, since it reminds me of existing letters that were modified into new shapes. I wonder if the rotation of the letters reveal a different meaning; like instead of going from A to Z in the alphabet, the starting point is determined by the exact rotation. Another very intriguing detail is that some of the numbers carry its meaning by displaying a certain amount of shapes in its own form (examples: 0, 2, 3, 5, 6), while others resemble Arabic numerals (1, 4, 7, 8, 9). Funnily enough, you can alternatively solve the numeral glyphs by giving each triangle a value of 1: While 0 is not having any triangles, 1 is missing exactly one, 2 is missing two, 3 is missing three. 4 seems to change up the pattern, filling up 3 triangles and taking one away (It is fascinating though, that 4 is the same shape as 1 but mirrored and turned to the right by 90 degrees). 5 on the other hand offers two full and two empty triangles, leaving one big rectangle as the fifth element. 6 follows the same trend as 5 with three full and three empty triangles, leaving an untouched block (Alternatively, you can look at it as filling up the two triangles from 5, carving three new ones, with the block leaving the last element to 6). 7 is very tricky, but here I figured out that it follows the opposite rulings of 1-3, 7 is ten with three triangles removed, leaving seven. 8 is the same, ten with 2 triangles removed to form eight. 9 is ten with one removed, standing at nine. (Again sharing its shape with 1 and 4, but this time it is turned by 90 degrees first and then mirrored. It seems that rotation and mirroring changes the value of the glyph in some way, doing it for one numeral would've been a coincidence, two make a pattern.) Even though there seem to be different rules at work between all of them, there are shared traits to all of them it seems. If we translate the rotation and mirroring to letters, I wonder what we could come up with, since it seems that the standard value is 1, first mirroring and then rotating results in 4, first rotating and then mirroring results in 9. Perhaps the letters have to be moved along the alphabet depending on the technique used to change their position? I'm not sure if any of this can be of help, but I like to give my opinion on this all the same!
Fictional language is not as hard as one think. In my mid to highschool, my group of friends created a language. The only hard thing is getting used to them. But it only took 3 weeks until we are fluent and can speak openly while no one oustide the group know about it.
Fantastic video, I loved the way you analyzed the language of Arknights. But may I ask where do you get the font? Been trying to find it for a few hours after I saw this video. Thanks!
This is going to be my only video on a language for a long time lol. Talking about graphic design when it isn't even my area of study is already demanding let alone getting into linguistics as well (｡>﹏
Interesting, so there are cases where simple transliteration works but then in other cases it gives random jumbles of letter. How likely do you think those cases were written for aesthetic purposes? Like those examples you gave in Endfield
That is a question that would probably be more suited to someone actually involved in the deciphering of the Sarkaz language lol. If you had to ask my perspective on it, I would say that it is quite likely the Sarkaz characters were used decoratively rather than have a deeper meaning behind them. But who knows? Perhaps there is some deeper meaning once we understand more about the language.
This is very cool, but i somehow expected it to be more than just "latin letters reskin". That would require so much more effort, though, and wouldn't be worth it.
In the history of fantasy works, there are indeed some fictional characters that are not just about Latin letter skinning, such as the Ar tonelico series' hymmnos' - an absolute genius World Building. However, even it focuses more on grammar and building completely independent logical systems. It is usually difficult to start with letters, mainly because there are only so many syllables that humans can produce. Letters correspond to the sounds of humans themselves, making it difficult to truly create new things. Ancient people had already completed almost all the work.
Oh, it's not just a latin letters reskin, but actually a very intriguing language. I'll list an example poem from IS#5 for you: Manerit ele qirmam Maradit ele agašlehemam. Et in eld urbusil nečateliš. In eld qav’parifanil benulitel. Maraditazam luqidi kerda passam isfaeliš. Qri eld şwiǧemam, šeraqimam koneliš. Qri šeraqimam, kazdelimam koneliš. Passam sarkazo isfit
There's a much more in depth post on the Arknights reddit that covers some of the Sarkaz lexicon: www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1fdvgsw/kazdelian_language_studies_a_dynamic_lexicon_of/ And there are members of the Chinese Arknights community who are seriously crazy in their dedication to uncovering the nuances of the language: nga.178.com/read.php?tid=39921984.
it's obvious Sarkaz borrows a lot from the Hebrew and Aramaic languages. The unknown characters should be cross checked against those languages and see if they turn out to be anything. Start with the š (s-hat) character since it's shown up in multiple places now and see where that takes you.
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Fun Fact! Logos' chapter 11 art, E2 art, and S1 ring all spell "Scribo Imperium" or "Scribo Imperiumvoco" multiple consecutive times.
That roughly translates to "I write the domain" or "I write and speak the domain"
It's a domain expansion. His casting is just "DOMAIN EXPANSION DOMAIN EXPANSION DOMAIN EXPANSION"
Also, we know some extra words (And can probably derive meaning from them) from the IS5 menu UI (Which would give us an approximate or direct translation with the UI they represent), such as Esqa Lonam, Tesauro, Tabulo, or Sarağul. There's also the already known words like Sarkaz, "Those without home", Teekaz, "Those with home", Kazdel, "Homeland", Wis'adel "Wishing for (a) home", and probably names such as Laqeramaline Duq'khanfaliz (Aefanyl's mother) or Duq'arael (The Sanguinarch)
it is imperium voco scribo, "i write, therefore i command". he says it in game
he also has a hidden line in his e2 art which probably says (because some of the words are too hidden) cresco iunci ravi supra collem dominae non errabits banshee
Bcs logos is gojo, wdym? 😅
@@ArachnoParadox what does the hidden one mean?
@@LetMeFLY649 "I grow raptured over the hill of the lady, the banshee does not stray"
some of the letters are completely hidden so might be wrong
> Is this new language or font?
> Its a good language sir.
> Look inside
> Font
Hypergryphics
Lowlighics
HyperGlyphs..
I think the language is not just Sarkaz, but the language of the First Civilization. The Teekaz probably adopted it in order to use Civilight Eterna.
Then why did Doctor have to learn the Sarkaz language, when he/she woke up the first time.
Doctor read the notes to learn it.
@@taka_0012 the doctor had to relearn a lot of things after he woke up he would remember stuff afterdoing it like relearning sarkaz, also im not sure about sarkaz being an first civilization language but the docter would definitely learned sarkaz before losing his memories
@@Pertiopa Doctor woke up the first time, he/she didn't lose his/her memory.
Kal'sit says the sarcophagus does not remove memories.
If the language of the first civilization was Sarkaz, why would the Doctor have to relearn it, when it's his/her language?
That's what I'm asking.
And in my opinion, the Sarkaz alphabet is the Talos-2 civilization alphabet.
It was said by Doctor him/herself, that Sarkaz took its civilization form from Talos-2.
He/she even woke up, and spoke with kal'sit using the unknown language (the language of the first civilization).
without having to learn, he/she has activated his language unconsciously.
@taka_0012 the other thing that comes to mind it that the other languages on Terra resemble our real world languages, yet this one doesn't really resemble anything we have in the same way that Ursine is Russian, for example.
I've heard that the Sarkaz language might most likely be Yiddish, while the Teekaz language could very well be Hebrew. It also kind of lines up with how the Banshees' arts work. To me, how their arts work brings to mind where the concept of golems originated, and 'words of power' being a key thing to make the golem work in said story.
@@taka_0012 The text written in first civ language isn't what is spoken by the sarkaz or other species on terra. If it were the doctor would have understood them right away. This written language is not remotely common on Terra otherwise we'd see it everywhere. The only location we see it is on the amiya conversion menu meaning it's specific to the civilite eterna, which is a first civ piece of technology. The only other places we might be able to see such a language would be cearula arbor, the stargate, or the celestial fulcrum (aka. The Law). Additionally with regards to logos, the Sarkaz rely on a bloodline of Teekaz that fused with originium, with the CE at its epicenter. These abilities are drawn from and originate from the CE and first civ technology. Also most of what floats around logos basically says "emperium" or some such. Further, as far as we know, Talos 2 does not contain a single Teekaz/Sarkaz civilization and we know Talos 2 was an anchor point for the first civ, being an important and strategic point they had (source: babel/ep14)
One thing I can say
They probably did the same on Ex Astris, since that game even has it's main songs have an alien language. Makes you think they really put a lot of thought on world building
The song is "Ottobesser"
god i wish they gave us the whole language
They actually did, Allindish (Ex Astris's planet) writing is based off of Akkadian script
Making a new Sarkaz font really elevated this video.
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Good video, but it's about the ALPHABET, not the language. The language itself is based on various real world semitic language like Aramaic, Arabic and Hebrew. (In fact, every language in Arknights is just a variation of real world languages. Teekaz/Sarkaz is noteworthy because it's less directly copied from the source material.) It's honestly a fascinating topic of its own.
As for the alphabet, I'd like to point out that the scripts used for those languages (especially Ancient South Arabian and Geʽez) are also weirdly geometric because they're in a transitional state simplified from the original pictograms but not adapted to be quickly written by hand. I'm not convinced that the Sarkaz alphabet is directly based on any of those scripts, but it might be an influence on its graphical design.
And one more thing, which another comment already mentioned: The Teekaz/Sarkaz might've adopted their alphabet from the civilization that the Doctor and Kal'tsit belonged to, potentially through the Civilight Eterna (which Amiya's module's story shows stores memories by members of that civilization). You brought up that it's seemingly designed to be displayed, rather than written by hand. I think so too, but displayed by computers rather than originium arts. (If the theory is correct, the alphabet is likely way older than originium itself).
Noteworthy: Sarkaz didn't do Originium Arts, they do Witchcraft, which is not the same (Though Logos is working on a theory to unify Arts and Witchcraft, since he seemed to notice similarities). Also, Sarkaz as a language is based on latin too. There's plenty of Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic, but plenty of Latin stuck in there as well
@@16Vessel Are there any Latin parts not tied to the Sankta?
@@TheOnlyMrFake Logos' written incantarions are in Latin, and the IS5 menu has words derived from Latin, specifically Misionam for the "Missions" tab
Hoederer would be proud. Absolutely stellar work! I came into this thinking I'd just watch someone talk about the Sarkaz alphabet, but in addition to that I got a video talking about how real life language, alphabet, and typography work, AND a look into a really cool typeface project for the Sarkaz alphabet! I really hope they release Sarkaz Serif as an actual usable font in the future!
Linguistics my beloved..... And it's from the game I'm currently having some kind of hyperfixation towards the lore too.... Thank you for sharing this!
I’m glad that I was still able to share something insightful even if this subject is outside of my own area of expertise.
If you want to others who can talk way more about the linguistic aspect of Sarkaz, I highly suggest joining the Arknights Wiki discord server (and I do believe they’re looking for linguists atm).
13:34 you made me think about one detail in old sarkaz architecture. It's always adding and reshaping. Houses builded one to another, originium crystals in walls not removed but mixed with other things. Even Soul furnance is metal shapes layering each on another like sarkaz keep adding pieces overtime. Even sarkaz themselves are giving their names to each other either by creating one based upon personality or claiming it from passed away people. Maybe sarkaz language looks like shapes because earlier they reshaped different pieces of metal and added it on metal piece bigger, just like with soul furnance.
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100000000 years of Sarkaz lore and a whole ass language. Thank you HG
When you pointed out the small gaps in sarkaz letters that don't make sense for most writing forms, I had another idea for how they might have come about. Sarkaz culture also places tremendous significance on weapons, so my idea is that perhaps this script was originally carved, such as with a knife or sword.
Interesting theory!
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In the world of the First Civilization, thoughts and feelings are transferred instantly. So one can imagine a single line of their "text" must include an underlying mountainous amount of data. AK has left me in shock over and over
I never thought that a video about a gacha game could educate me about the history of fonts and how they are made, this is the same as the lecture material I studied at my uni. anyway impressive video
Thank you! I’m glad that you found the video interesting.
Man, this really reminds me of Typography History & Design class back in college. Great stuff!
Don't know what to write here, just happy to see a new piece of a great Arknights content. Well done!
Sheesh bro, I honestly never expected Arknights' lore would grow to be this expansive, it's very cool and heartwarming to see
AK lore so complicated you can make a field of study for it
whole course work for it and free S+
13:45 Just noticed you wrote M twice when you meant D, great video though love your stuff on Arknights
And this is why you don't push back editing to the last minute and think you can get away exporting a video without QC (；一_一).
Thank you for the catch!
"For the sake of worldbuilding, we created a new language, or modified the already existing one."
-HG, probably
People 1000 years later: These ancient scribbles in game looks interesting
@stef2337 I could imagine there is some troll in HG that use their own made up language to say "yo mama's gay" or smth to someone who are willing to translate it XD.
tbf, there are many many example of that in other series too
Super interesting
the exact kind of niche information i need to fill more of my brain with
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Sea born language when
Seaborn don't have language since they don't have their own culture and a need of identifier that connect them with same interest since they more focus on their survival instinct. I think what you referring to is previous civilization language
That don't count, that's just funky English
You mean Aegirian alphabet?
Nothing to say but applaud you for such an informative video.
Bravo indeed.
This was absolutely intriguing. Good stuff. I learned a LOT about the visualization of languages. I didn't expect it to be around Arknights.
That was a really nice watch! I've always been interested in the story of Arknights, so learning more about one of its languages, something I didn't think about until now, was really cool.
Holy shit seeing another Arknights analysis video from ya! I'm so in and no regrets enjoying it. do keep it up!
this isn't a language, this is just an encryption
not even encryption, just a font.
@GEB_Rosee_PPS exactly
21:09 HOLY SHIT! THIS LOOKS F AMAZING!
Such an interesting video, damn I was never as interested in Arknights lore and world building but this video made me want to learn it whole now
INSANE worldbuilding. Also great video.
this video was really really cool and interesting. i love anthropology facts and i learned a lot i didn't know about different scripts and languages from this video! and the explanations about the sarkaz language was really good, it's such a small detail in the grand scheme of arknights lore, so i'm really impressed by just how deep the lore iceberg goes on this topic. arknights worldbuilding and lore is my favorite thing ever ❤
Nice, this is a cool project to follow.
For example, I play mtg and there is a dedicated group of fans who actively decipher an invented script language for one of the game's BBEG.
*Phyrexian language if anyone is interested.
Even though there were not much of editing, it is still a great video.
Somehow this linguistic-bomb in Endfield went completely under the radar for me. Can totally agree on importance of languages, as well as the fact that we almost always take them for granted.
But still.. running Babel OST throughout the whole video is just cruel, lol
I though I already started to recover from it a bit, but you just pressed the dagger into a yet fresh wounds 😭
Thank you
Sorry about the Babel music PTSD trigger (ᵕ-ᴗ-)
"a silly little anime game about collecting waifus cant be that deep"
meanwhile the silly little anime game about collecting waifus:
Another masterpiece! Outstanding summary and explanation of Arknights' world construction.
HG has indeed put in an unimaginable effort here, which is not what we usually look for in Gacha Games......
But it is a great undertaking, worth the effort, without a doubt.
This is exactly why I love world building!! So much depth in seemingly meaningless decisions, whether intentional or not, always catches my interest!
I did not expect to learn about the various ways language is depicted/written/printed/made but i dont mind. Very educational. Well done.
This was probably a pretty big time investment, and it's a great and fascinating video.
It's Tunic all over again 😀
I'm a communication major, and this is very useful and inspiring for me to research more
Creating an actual font for it is amazing, id love to have access to a translator of sorts for sarkaz
I would love to see you take a look at the rune script that was invented for the anime Madoka Magica. It's a script, not a language, but it has at least three different versions, and the fandom spent quite a long time to figure them out.
The most apt ost chosen for this video.
shouldve covered Honkai Star Rail instead since they have a language for each planet you go to, with intergalactic basic in the herta space station, belobogian on jarilo-VI, xianzhouan (probably the most interesting one, since the language does not contain vowels, example being kafka's name written as"KFK") on the Luofu, and Penaconian on Penacony.
Unfortunately I don’t play HSR nor am I a part of the HSR community so I stuck with what I’m most familiar with. HSR’s languages do sound interesting though!
Amazing! That was awesome video! Thanks for your and all these people work!
The theories I have given this are that Sarkaz was based off symbols they saw on the Ancients' technology and warships, or, it was a certain researcher's pet project as we know the *other* languages and races not endemic to Terra all trace back to Priestess.
Hello HalfACupOfRice, do you think you could share with us the "Sarkaz font" used through the video? It's really cool looking and I'd love to be able to use it for some Arknights related stuff I make sometimes
I'll make another video announcing where I sourced Sarkaz script but I'll share you the link directly: github.com/lhclbt/Endfield_Font/blob/main/README_en.md
(credit for the typesetting of the script goes to Butan)
I mean, they could use their hands and weapons to write it too(considering the level of hostility and danger in kazdel, to the point we're even children need weapons)maybe knifes/dagger since they're fairly common and easy to make, i can see the 3 dot being you carving in stone/wood with the knife, the "A" is you shaving it, Z just make some triangles and then rip off the bark or just more material etc etc
Considering their situation and the world in general, i think they rarely if ever write it, just use magic and see phone/computer text since technology is easy to get in arknights and is fairly common for mercenaries too(and a lot of sarkaz are mercs), if they write it is probably using some wood/stone carving tool and raw strength(once again reminding you that they are really strong, they might as well just puncture a tree/boulder with a knife and make holes in it to write too)
Wow, that serif version looks INCREDIBLE
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It wouldn't surprise me if the Sarkaz alphabet was inspired by the Combine font from Half Life 2. You can really see the connection with the Sarkaz "C" and "U"
another quality content, thanks for the video!
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THIS VIDEO ESSAY… IS A BANGER…
The fictual newspaper is insane
Are you sure its a language, what if its just an alphabet, to my knowledge sarkaz is a species just like human is a species and human has a lot of language. I mean, the symbol 'u' in russian and english is pronounced differently.
That's an interesting point
Qe malihate qlim Sarkazo.
Yeah, it's a language, but it's only properly elaborated on once IS#5 comes out.
The Sarkaz language may exist since the game does distinguish it from english in the dialogue but the Sarkaz script is for the most part a typeface or font for the english alphabet, except for the few outliers which don't make sense as shown in the video
From what I have heard, Sarkaz early on was based primarily on other languages. However as Arknights has continued to evolve, we’ve seen a unique lexicon for the Sarkaz language.
What we can say for certain is that our understanding of Sarkaz is evolving as we discover new information about Sarkaz which Hypergryph is continuing to release.
Sarkaz-pre-originium species or Teekaz the native inhabitants of Terra, previously has physical as what they're depicted with various real life demon tales etc.
I'm sorry, I heard the Babel ost and couldn't see the video because tears clouded my vision.
Imagine if Doctors civ just stopped writing all together but just communicate telepathically most of the time and record and code using giga computers. This ancient language also has the natural command of pure supernatural power not connected with originium
Shoutout to ArTonelico fans out there.
When it comes to languages from a game, Warframe always comes to mind because theres factions and they all use different languages. Idk i just thought it would be a fun fact
Great video as usual.
I hope you also look into how text written inside HG other game "ex astris" which looks really similar to the "sarkaz text"to me
This is the main reason i play arknight, have a big lore like a rpg game.
Hypergryph is lucky have super creative team haha
I had a feeling i saw those symbols before and looks like it was about Ex Astris, the in game language has similar symbols although its not 1:1 copy, guess the same language creator was hired for both of them.
Arknights is absolute peak in the lore/world building department 🙏
ohhh niceeee another arknights analysis vid to watch
GG really good video my man keep going
22:07 did he just read latin 💀
He just spoke Lateran, lol
Its Hyperglyph after all 😂
Let giveth birth of language of ours
Very interesting video, gives me a lot of food for thought! Would you mind sharing the regular and serif font tables as .ttf files?
The serif version is especially curious, since it reminds me of existing letters that were modified into new shapes. I wonder if the rotation of the letters reveal a different meaning; like instead of going from A to Z in the alphabet, the starting point is determined by the exact rotation. Another very intriguing detail is that some of the numbers carry its meaning by displaying a certain amount of shapes in its own form (examples: 0, 2, 3, 5, 6), while others resemble Arabic numerals (1, 4, 7, 8, 9).
Funnily enough, you can alternatively solve the numeral glyphs by giving each triangle a value of 1: While 0 is not having any triangles, 1 is missing exactly one, 2 is missing two, 3 is missing three. 4 seems to change up the pattern, filling up 3 triangles and taking one away (It is fascinating though, that 4 is the same shape as 1 but mirrored and turned to the right by 90 degrees). 5 on the other hand offers two full and two empty triangles, leaving one big rectangle as the fifth element. 6 follows the same trend as 5 with three full and three empty triangles, leaving an untouched block (Alternatively, you can look at it as filling up the two triangles from 5, carving three new ones, with the block leaving the last element to 6). 7 is very tricky, but here I figured out that it follows the opposite rulings of 1-3, 7 is ten with three triangles removed, leaving seven. 8 is the same, ten with 2 triangles removed to form eight. 9 is ten with one removed, standing at nine. (Again sharing its shape with 1 and 4, but this time it is turned by 90 degrees first and then mirrored. It seems that rotation and mirroring changes the value of the glyph in some way, doing it for one numeral would've been a coincidence, two make a pattern.)
Even though there seem to be different rules at work between all of them, there are shared traits to all of them it seems.
If we translate the rotation and mirroring to letters, I wonder what we could come up with, since it seems that the standard value is 1, first mirroring and then rotating results in 4, first rotating and then mirroring results in 9. Perhaps the letters have to be moved along the alphabet depending on the technique used to change their position?
I'm not sure if any of this can be of help, but I like to give my opinion on this all the same!
Warframe with 3 entire lenguajes in the corner: hey
If Tau already have one, then they have 4 lmao
Man I love arknights 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Fictional language is not as hard as one think.
In my mid to highschool, my group of friends created a language.
The only hard thing is getting used to them. But it only took 3 weeks until we are fluent and can speak openly while no one oustide the group know about it.
22:36 so the sarkaz reads engish newspaper in sarkaz fonts
Flowery intro made me think this was going to be an actual constructed language instead of just an alphabet. Good bait.
wooooow you just became alan turning
I just wanna know what (Sarkaz expletive) actually is so we can know what W kept saying in ch.14 lol
We also have the Hymmnos from Ar Tonelico series
Fantastic video, I loved the way you analyzed the language of Arknights. But may I ask where do you get the font? Been trying to find it for a few hours after I saw this video. Thanks!
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small minor mistake 13:45 "D" is labeled as "M"
Great video
I will be honest with you. I am making a story right now That is a add-on to arknights and I'm making my own language for it.
Yet what I need right now is I need someone to actually help me with this language.
Seaborn and sami languages next (or maybe more like alphabet than languages)
This is going to be my only video on a language for a long time lol.
Talking about graphic design when it isn't even my area of study is already demanding let alone getting into linguistics as well (｡>﹏
Interesting, so there are cases where simple transliteration works but then in other cases it gives random jumbles of letter. How likely do you think those cases were written for aesthetic purposes? Like those examples you gave in Endfield
That is a question that would probably be more suited to someone actually involved in the deciphering of the Sarkaz language lol.
If you had to ask my perspective on it, I would say that it is quite likely the Sarkaz characters were used decoratively rather than have a deeper meaning behind them. But who knows? Perhaps there is some deeper meaning once we understand more about the language.
(Lungmen profanity)
Fun fact: Latin can be written from right to left (and most character is flipped)
This is very cool, but i somehow expected it to be more than just "latin letters reskin".
That would require so much more effort, though, and wouldn't be worth it.
In the history of fantasy works, there are indeed some fictional characters that are not just about Latin letter skinning, such as the Ar tonelico series' hymmnos' - an absolute genius World Building.
However, even it focuses more on grammar and building completely independent logical systems. It is usually difficult to start with letters, mainly because there are only so many syllables that humans can produce.
Letters correspond to the sounds of humans themselves, making it difficult to truly create new things.
Ancient people had already completed almost all the work.
@@YoiYoisasa yes, i agree. I honestly not sure why i expected anything else, given that simple premise.
Oh, it's not just a latin letters reskin, but actually a very intriguing language. I'll list an example poem from IS#5 for you:
Manerit ele qirmam
Maradit ele agašlehemam.
Et in eld urbusil nečateliš.
In eld qav’parifanil benulitel.
Maraditazam luqidi kerda passam isfaeliš.
Qri eld şwiǧemam, šeraqimam koneliš.
Qri šeraqimam, kazdelimam koneliš.
Passam sarkazo isfit
@@lens_the_martyr oh! See, this, this is what makes me smile, this is satisfactory. IS5 is going to be so cool, i can already feel it.
There's a much more in depth post on the Arknights reddit that covers some of the Sarkaz lexicon: www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1fdvgsw/kazdelian_language_studies_a_dynamic_lexicon_of/
And there are members of the Chinese Arknights community who are seriously crazy in their dedication to uncovering the nuances of the language: nga.178.com/read.php?tid=39921984.
Watching this video reminded me that Star Wars also has their own written language: Aurabesh, which look quite similar to serif Sarkaz
it's obvious Sarkaz borrows a lot from the Hebrew and Aramaic languages. The unknown characters should be cross checked against those languages and see if they turn out to be anything. Start with the š (s-hat) character since it's shown up in multiple places now and see where that takes you.
Chems? Is that you ?
Bro 😭 I first got exposed to Sarkaz due to the Amiya Medic transformation 😭 I’M ONLY AT CHAPTER 5 😭😭😭
You know, the alphabet that looks like the letter in the Endfield trailer.
That alphabet is from Talos 2 civilization.
endfield is future arknights, they brought it there
@@ArachnoParadox but we know the past civilization did build on talos 2 before
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