Oryziform

Oryziform is a working title for the logographic script used in inscriptions and on clay tablets to write Ngauro, and later, Ndak Ta. The name means rice-shaped in Latin and refers to the stylus marks of which characters were composed, as they were shaped much like rice grains. It will serve until an in-world name that isn't unspeakably ugly can be determined.

Proto-Oryziform

The earliest form of writing to develop in the Aiwa valley was neither a complete writing system nor did it take the characteristic rice-shaped forms of Oryziform. Rather, it was an ideography - a script in which characters directly represented ideas, rather than words. As such, it cannot be considered a complete writing system capable of fully representing a language. It was also typically scratched into clay with a knife (and perhaps into bark as well), rather than pressed in with a stylus. The full logography of Oryziform took several centuries to develop from this early script.