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Hey all!

 

So, after lego revealed the mask of creation and the "Mask Pillars", one of my immediate thoughts (Being a linguist) is "What does that writing say?  Is that matoran?"

 

Anyway, at the time, there wasn't much content revealed so I wasn't able to formulate any theories on it.  But now that the sets and more photos have been released, I've been able to go over what we have and come up with some theories/ideas.

 

First off, here: http://i.imgur.com/WOLeVdN.png is an image created by someone on the BZP Facebook page, which I then expanded upon.

 

 

 

This is the progress I've made on this so far:

 

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/10608193_10205641432139749_5542409021014727866_o.jpg

 

So far, I have cataloged 24 letters.  The two remaining letters I've yet to find.

 

I personally think that the 5 straight line characters (The ' | || 二 and 三)  are the 5 vowels.  And the very wide M and W looking characters are M and W (Which would make sense, lol).  

 

Anyway, this topic is mainly for research and theories about this new bionicle writing system.   I myself cannot read the original matoran by memory, but those of you who can might be able to draw similarities between this font and the original. 

 

Alright, now that my progress is out of the way, let the translation begin!

 

-TheAkihabara

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This is really cool, like I never noticed these before.

 

One thing I can say is that these don't look too much like the original Matoran alphabet to me, but some kind of do. So from what I see, this is something completely new. Like "Creation" would be:  :c:  :r:  :a:  :t:  :i:  :m_o:  :n:  in Old Matoran. Or this could be a primitive version of matoran...

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This is really cool, like I never noticed these before.

 

One thing I can say is that these don't look too much like the original Matoran alphabet to me, but some kind of do. So from what I see, this is something completely new. Like "Creation" would be:  :c:  :r:  :a:  :t:  :i:  :m_o:  :n:  in Old Matoran. Or this could be a primitive version of matoran...

You forgot the E in Creation. :P  :e:

Great.  We have to decode it all...

 

There isn't even a key this time.  I liked the last version better.

Bionicle 2015 hasn't even had its sets officially released. You can't possibly expect there to be a decoder anywhere yet. :P Wait until the website gets updated when the sets come out, and then we'll see...

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Hey all!

 

So, after lego revealed the mask of creation and the "Mask Pillars", one of my immediate thoughts (Being a linguist) is "What does that writing say?  Is that matoran?"

 

Anyway, at the time, there wasn't much content revealed so I wasn't able to formulate any theories on it.  But now that the sets and more photos have been released, I've been able to go over what we have and come up with some theories/ideas.

 

First off, here: http://i.imgur.com/WOLeVdN.png is an image created by someone on the BZP Facebook page, which I then expanded upon.

 

 

 

This is the progress I've made on this so far:

 

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/10608193_10205641432139749_5542409021014727866_o.jpg

 

So far, I have cataloged 24 letters.  The two remaining letters I've yet to find.

 

I personally think that the 5 straight line characters (The ' | || 二 and 三)  are the 5 vowels.  And the very wide M and W looking characters are M and W (Which would make sense, lol).  

 

Anyway, this topic is mainly for research and theories about this new bionicle writing system.   I myself cannot read the original matoran by memory, but those of you who can might be able to draw similarities between this font and the original. 

 

Alright, now that my progress is out of the way, let the translation begin!

 

-TheAkihabara

Well done! But did it occur to you that it might not actually be a language and it's just a bunch of repeated symbols in a random order? (That would be disappointing, but it's posssible.)

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Isn't this basically the same thing as the discussion going in in this pre-existing topic

 

Oh, never knew that existed.  Ah well.  

 

 

 

Hey all!

 

So, after lego revealed the mask of creation and the "Mask Pillars", one of my immediate thoughts (Being a linguist) is "What does that writing say?  Is that matoran?"

 

Anyway, at the time, there wasn't much content revealed so I wasn't able to formulate any theories on it.  But now that the sets and more photos have been released, I've been able to go over what we have and come up with some theories/ideas.

 

First off, here: http://i.imgur.com/WOLeVdN.png is an image created by someone on the BZP Facebook page, which I then expanded upon.

 

 

 

This is the progress I've made on this so far:

 

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/10608193_10205641432139749_5542409021014727866_o.jpg

 

So far, I have cataloged 24 letters.  The two remaining letters I've yet to find.

 

I personally think that the 5 straight line characters (The ' | || 二 and 三)  are the 5 vowels.  And the very wide M and W looking characters are M and W (Which would make sense, lol).  

 

Anyway, this topic is mainly for research and theories about this new bionicle writing system.   I myself cannot read the original matoran by memory, but those of you who can might be able to draw similarities between this font and the original. 

 

Alright, now that my progress is out of the way, let the translation begin!

 

-TheAkihabara

Well done! But did it occur to you that it might not actually be a language and it's just a bunch of repeated symbols in a random order? (That would be disappointing, but it's posssible.)

 

 

Thanks!   It did occur to me, yes.  But lego has been known for developing written languages and such in the past for their stuff.   So it wouldn't be far fetched to assume that this is also a complete system.

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Isn't this basically the same thing as the discussion going in in this pre-existing topic

 

Oh, never knew that existed.  Ah well.  

 

 

 

Hey all!

 

So, after lego revealed the mask of creation and the "Mask Pillars", one of my immediate thoughts (Being a linguist) is "What does that writing say?  Is that matoran?"

 

Anyway, at the time, there wasn't much content revealed so I wasn't able to formulate any theories on it.  But now that the sets and more photos have been released, I've been able to go over what we have and come up with some theories/ideas.

 

First off, here: http://i.imgur.com/WOLeVdN.png is an image created by someone on the BZP Facebook page, which I then expanded upon.

 

 

 

This is the progress I've made on this so far:

 

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/10608193_10205641432139749_5542409021014727866_o.jpg

 

So far, I have cataloged 24 letters.  The two remaining letters I've yet to find.

 

I personally think that the 5 straight line characters (The ' | || 二 and 三)  are the 5 vowels.  And the very wide M and W looking characters are M and W (Which would make sense, lol).  

 

Anyway, this topic is mainly for research and theories about this new bionicle writing system.   I myself cannot read the original matoran by memory, but those of you who can might be able to draw similarities between this font and the original. 

 

Alright, now that my progress is out of the way, let the translation begin!

 

-TheAkihabara

Well done! But did it occur to you that it might not actually be a language and it's just a bunch of repeated symbols in a random order? (That would be disappointing, but it's posssible.)

 

 

Thanks!   It did occur to me, yes.  But lego has been known for developing written languages and such in the past for their stuff.   So it wouldn't be far fetched to assume that this is also a complete system.

 

So, I'm a bit confused. Do you think the symbols on the MoCr spell out CREATION? Because that doesn't seem to align with your vowels theory. Do you have any idea what any of the symbols are for sure?

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BBC#69 Entry: Roodaka - Master of Manipulation


BFTGM entries: Zigben · Ventox · Deflecto


 


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Isn't this basically the same thing as the discussion going in in this pre-existing topic

 

Oh, never knew that existed.  Ah well.  

 

 

 

Hey all!

 

So, after lego revealed the mask of creation and the "Mask Pillars", one of my immediate thoughts (Being a linguist) is "What does that writing say?  Is that matoran?"

 

Anyway, at the time, there wasn't much content revealed so I wasn't able to formulate any theories on it.  But now that the sets and more photos have been released, I've been able to go over what we have and come up with some theories/ideas.

 

First off, here: http://i.imgur.com/WOLeVdN.png is an image created by someone on the BZP Facebook page, which I then expanded upon.

 

 

 

This is the progress I've made on this so far:

 

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/10608193_10205641432139749_5542409021014727866_o.jpg

 

So far, I have cataloged 24 letters.  The two remaining letters I've yet to find.

 

I personally think that the 5 straight line characters (The ' | || 二 and 三)  are the 5 vowels.  And the very wide M and W looking characters are M and W (Which would make sense, lol).  

 

Anyway, this topic is mainly for research and theories about this new bionicle writing system.   I myself cannot read the original matoran by memory, but those of you who can might be able to draw similarities between this font and the original. 

 

Alright, now that my progress is out of the way, let the translation begin!

 

-TheAkihabara

Well done! But did it occur to you that it might not actually be a language and it's just a bunch of repeated symbols in a random order? (That would be disappointing, but it's posssible.)

 

 

Thanks!   It did occur to me, yes.  But lego has been known for developing written languages and such in the past for their stuff.   So it wouldn't be far fetched to assume that this is also a complete system.

 

So, I'm a bit confused. Do you think the symbols on the MoCr spell out CREATION? Because that doesn't seem to align with your vowels theory. Do you have any idea what any of the symbols are for sure?

 

 

Oh, sorry, the vowel theory came after I wrote the "creation" underneath the writing.   Most of the image is just me recording and expanding upon the original posters image.  

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