Re: Optimum number of symbols

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.

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