> 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...