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Hymmnos and Fonic Symbol Fonts

February 6th, 2009

hymnosRole-playing games often make use of symbols or writing in a completely different language, to really bring the story alive. It gives depth and adds more realism to the story envisioned by the creators. These often invite curiosity and interest, especially for one such as myself. These writings  reveal a mysterious aura, and a message unknown to many.

Two such games are Ar Tonelico and Tales of The Abyss. Both games include symbolic fonts that are very much alike.

Finding Truetype Fonts for these symbols is quite rare. So it is somewhat fortunate to obtain these fonts.

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The  Hymmnos Language from Ar Tonelico.

Hymmnos is a language from the time before the two catastrophes that destroyed the world, and is used by Reyvateils to interface with the tower. It is represented in-game by unique glyphs. Though it used to be a universal language, its meaning has been lost through the ages and is now used only for Song Magic.

Although it is a synthetic language constructed solely for the game, it is translatable and not just pure gibberish … The basic Hymmnos grammar consists of “emotion sound(想音)-V-O-C”, and many words are taken from existing languages; mainly English, Japanese, Sanskrit and German.

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The Fonic Language from the Tales of the Abyss.

Tales of the Abyss features Ancient Ispanian, in which, for instance, Yulia’s fonic hymns are written and sung. (Abyss also uses “fonic script” in some places, but that’s apparently just the alphabet that the people of Auldrant use.)
The Fonic Language, which the Fonic Script is the alphabet for, is the modern tongue in Auldrant, and pretty much just English in pretty symbols. However, as Ispania is taken to be another word for Spain, a theory exists that Ancient Ispanian is Spanish, Latin, or some Latin derived language.

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  1. February 28th, 2009 at 01:16 | #1

    wow… this amazing… details… for language… @_@ this.. very to help… me Thanks For Info.. :)

  2. ra
    February 28th, 2009 at 15:56 | #2

    wow so great!!!!

  3. ra
    February 28th, 2009 at 16:03 | #3

    OMG THE FONTS WORKS!!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!

  4. March 24th, 2009 at 00:31 | #4

    Soo unique and nice. The first one got a Crop circle feel O_o, it must be that SIGNS movie

  5. Rt
    April 4th, 2009 at 04:34 | #5

    I love it the work is exceptional and I just know I am going to use it for a fun language with my son once he sees it.
    Thanks. Having trouble downloading but have screen capture so far.

  6. Rt
    April 4th, 2009 at 04:36 | #6

    Ha Ha got it tanks a million

  7. the kabingnator
    October 4th, 2009 at 13:45 | #7

    thankkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

  8. Leone
    November 18th, 2009 at 09:05 | #8

    Amazing… I love it, thanks! Finally I got it!

  9. person
    December 4th, 2009 at 06:31 | #9

    it wont work on my computer T_T its a .RAR file.. :’(

  10. Public Haruhist
    December 8th, 2009 at 10:04 | #10

    Simply Awesome.

  11. lost_harper
    January 14th, 2010 at 12:47 | #11

    awesome!! and thanks for sharing.

    ..now if only I could find a font for the language used in eternia/destiny (i think they’re called melnics, cant remember >.>)

  12. Pinocchio
    January 20th, 2010 at 13:21 | #12

    how to use the font ? can anyone help me out ?
    thx

  13. March 9th, 2010 at 00:30 | #13

    This is great!1 Thanks, Thom

  14. March 9th, 2010 at 01:16 | #14

    This is great work!! Good job for you! Thom

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