Shreyas Sampat wrote:
First impression: beautiful!
> The chart's a little dense because there are a lot of characters; the
> black letterforms are independent glyphs, the red forms are diacritics,
> and legends are blue. The short vowel matras come in sets of three, as
> they carry consonany harmony (palatal, retroflex, and alveolar
> consonants harmonise); they are shown aligned with the POA they mark
> harmony for. The long vowel matras don't *show* harmony, but they don't
> necessarily disrupt it!
This is very interesting, though I don't really see how this harmony works.
Which features harmonize, and how?
> The six forms in the lower right mean the following:
> s_< : This consonant is preceded by a homorganic fricative of same voicing.
> _: : Geminate consonant.
> _y : CV > CjV
> V(underline): Repeat preceding vowel mark.
> s_: This consonant is preceded by /s/ or /z/, depending on voicing.
> n_: This consonant is preceded by a homorganic nasal.
Interesting.
> These six diacritics are "formal style" and they aren't always used in
> casual writing.
>
> I feel accomplished. Now, to transliterate some texts...
It is very well done. I am looking forward to seeing text samples.
Greetings,
Jörg.