Re: I need an artist ::: and articles

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:35:13 -0500 "David G. Durand" <dgd@...>
writes:
>......
>
>I'd recommend developing your own script, as it's so much fun. You
>could
>start (as many of us did) by making an assignment of your phonology to
>Tolkien's Tengwar -- Computer fonts are readily available, and it was
>designed to be targetable to many phonologies. I don't personally
>agree
>with the opinion that it's not visually distinctive enought to be a
>possible real script. (That's an old Conlang argument/topic).
>
>.......
My first conscript/conlang, ool-Nuziiferoi, which i made with my brother
about 3 and a half years ago, had similar origins.  The phonology was
based loosely on my brother's amateur phonetic code for representing
English with all the diphthongs and stuff plus all the sounds from other
languages we could think of, like /G/ and /x/.  The orthography was based
on Tengwar, though.
We started out with a vertical line (i think it's called a luva in
Tengwar), and then added circles to the ends of it, and then circles to
the circles.  It wasn't always that phonetically accurate, though.  For
instance, the second circle usually represented an H in English.  So for
instance, a S with an extra circle = SH.  We also mixed ourselves up by
putting in unintentional irregularities.  Instead of adding another
circle to K for /x/, we added a line - and G didn't even have a circle,
it was an angle like |/ .  What should have been KH was used for N, and
what should have been GH (if G had been a vertical-flip of K) was really
M.
You can see a short example of it on the Rokbeigalmki homepage, in the
different alphabets section.  it's the first one.
The vowels were pretty much totally random, we just scribbled on a
looseleaf paper until we found something that looked good.  Ever since
then i've thought of the Greek omega as an "umega", because that's what
the /u/ ended up looking like.

The ool-Nuziiferoi eventually became more cursive and mutated, until
Rokbeigalmki started and i adopted the alphabet in its mutated form,
whose primary distinction is the use of hooks instead of full circles in
the consonants.


-Stephen (Steg)

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