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Re: Optimum number of symbols

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 12:05
En réponse à Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>:

> Any point in asking if there are any conlangers who have built scripts > similar to the Indian systems? Monophonemic syllabary, representing > [character] + /a/, with subscripted or superscripted marking for the > other > vowels, and including a postscripted letter to indicate /aa/? >
Similar yes, identical no :)) . My Notya uses an alphasyllabary, but it needs vowel marks even for /a/ :)) . And Itakian has a very strange system where vowels and diphtongues/digraphs are written as full letters, which presuppose also the onset /?/, which is changed into other consonant onsets by the use of diacritics over those letters (or under, or around, given the nature of those diacritics :)) ). So basically the native Itakian script does the opposite job of the Indian systems :)) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.