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Re: Ebisédian writing system completed!

From:Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
Date:Sunday, March 7, 2004, 2:31
Nice! I remember seeing this long ago; have you posted this before?

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From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 8:07 PM
Subject: Ebisédian writing system completed!


> Hi all... > > I finally got off my lazy butt and redesigned the glyphs of sanokí, the > Ebisédian writing system. This time, instead of pulling glyphs out of thin > air (which didn't get very far, as my previous attempts at sanokí shows), > I decided to examine what the origins of sanokí might have been. So I sat > down and drew pictograms of objects and concepts (or the depictions > thereof) familiar to the Ebisédi, and imagined the development of these > pictograms into letterforms. Then I had the Ebisédi scribes go through the > list of phonemes in Ebisédian and pick symbols which are mnemonic for that > phoneme. For example, _jui'_ means "sphere" or "circle"; so the medial > form of _j_ is a circle. Similarly, the whirlpool glyph for _v_ comes from > _vyy'i_, a whirlpool-like phenomenon in Ferochromon. The sentence-final > form of _T_ comes from _Ta'va_, "to erupt". And so on. (I'll leave it as > an exercise for the reader to figure out the rest of the mnemonics. :-P) > > These glyphs were then massaged appropriately to fit into the system of > writing which I've already had in mind, and the result is the complete > sanokí writing system, which can be seen here: > > http://conlang.eusebeia.dyndns.org/ferochromon/ebisedian/sanoki.html > > A full text written in sanokí is also demonstrated on this page. > > Comments? Criticisms? Fan-mail? ;-) > > > T > > -- > And life still goes on...

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