Re: Graeca sine flexione

Henrik Theiling wrote:

> What's funny is that it seems in the era of Unicode and nice fonts
> that have uniform faces for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, conlangers
> start to use mixed orthographies.  I like this a lot, especially since
> I am using DejaVu which is one of those nice-looking fonts with a
> uniform face.  In fact, one of my conlang ruins (S11) uses a mixed
> orthography, too, with some Armenian letters even
> (http://www.kunstsprachen.de/s11/s_02.html#01).
My attention was brought yesterday to do the natlang Wakhi, which
according to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakhi_language> has joined in
the fun too. It's basically Latin, but uses delta, theta, a gamma-oid
letter (its capital is a larger version of the lowercase greek gamma,
rather than being an upside-down L), and the cyrillic letter used for
hard i in Russian. There's also a rotated e which might be used for /&/
like in Cyrillic, or might be /@/, but it doesn't really say...

--
Tristan.

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