Tunic Decoding

About the script: Each word is connected with a single horizontal line (like Bengali script). Near the end of the manual, it hints that stroke groups could be combined in a single character. A set of outside and internal edges can be combined, as shown in page 54 (and elsewhere). Each character is formed from a vowel and/or consonant pair, similar to Korean script, to form a phoneme.

Character Construction

Take a vowel sound, take a consonant sound, and glue 'em together. Add a circle at the bottom to flip the sound of the consonant and vowel (otherwise consonant comes first).

Vowel Sounds

ah aw ih e ? ə
ee oo er ? ar or
ay ai ? ? o ?

Consonant Sounds

m n ng p b t
d k g j ? f
v θ ð s z sh
? ? r y w l

Consonant/Vowel Flip Marker

Words

Stamina (or maybe "SP")

On the stamina page, these symbols are repeated multiple times, implicitly around places that mean "low stamina", "full stamina", and the symbol by itself on some parts of the page.

v-ihg-er

Cards

Page 51, page 20. Similar first sound to "key", combined with "ar".

k-ardz

Cardinal directions, page 34

Also in one of the holy cross challenges on a signpost. I'm not sure if these are full words, or abbreviations.

West / Left

w-e

East / Right

ee-s

South / Down

s-?

North / Up

n-or

Common repeats

I'm thinking this is the word "the". It's used in front of proper nouns like "West Garden", "Dark Tomb", "Door in the Mountains", "Fairies", "Holy Cross", "Cathedral"

ð-ə

Some more very common words:

This one in particular occurs before words "check-point", "civilization", "cathedral", "rudeling". And at the beginning of sentences / phrases. It's likely "a"

ə

are

Occurs in "cards" as well as by itself. On page 21 it appears before "the", so "are" makes sens.

ar

Wishing well, page 20

The first character is the same as "West". Last top right char is the same beginning as "stamina" and end of "cards". Might be "wish".

w-elz

Buttons / pressing something like that, on pages 13 and 14. A big hint is that it's used beside both the "A" and "LT" buttons.

b-ət-ihn

Key

After "a" on pages 17 and 10, when talking about keys. We know the "k" sound from "cards" and "ee" from East.

k-ee

On pages 17 and 10, when talking about keys. At the beginning of phrases.

y-oo

Page 41 title, also used on page 42 for at alternate phrase for "ghost"

Word 1:

f-ar

Word 2:

sh-or

On page 41 it's after "the":

The f-ar sh-or

On page 42 it's after something else. In total, it's another word for "ghost"

ih-n f-ar sh-or

On page 10, beside the old house checkbox and key:

Probably "you will need a key"

y-oo w-ihl n-eed ə k-ee

On page 10, beside the dark tomb checkbox and lantern icon:

d-ark ! n-eed ə l-ait

On page 10, speech bubble referring to the overworld map page:

l-awst ? s-ee p. 28

Page 11

A phrase pointing to the yellow teleporter square:

str-aynj g-ayt t-oo ð-ə f-ar sh-or

Page 12

The controls page, the title is:

k-əntr-olz

On pages 14 and 29, when talking about blocking. Could be "block" or "shield". But it's after "a" on page 29, so "a shield" fits better than "a block". It's also the word beside the shield icon on page 12.

sh-eeld

Pointing to the movement joystick:

m-oov

Health potion icon:

p-osh-ən

Sword / item slot icons:

y-ooz ai-te-m

Pointing to left trigger (lock button):

On page 13, it talks about LT as the "focus" button

f-ok-əs

Page 54

"For additional support & secrets"

1.

f-aind s-əm r-? g-old-ihn st-aw?-ooz

2.

tr-əv-ers ð-ə gl-o t-oo v-ihz-iht 12 str-aynj b-eeih-ngz

3.

" ə-n s-ihng " t-oo ð-em ð-ə gr-ayt-ihst s-awng , ð-ə s-awng ə-v ð-ə g-old-ihn p-ahθ , ah-z s-een fr-əm w-ihθ-ihn