Capitalizations (Was: Re: Capitals in Greek (was: Re: Workshops Review #4))

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:45:38PM -0500, Robert Hailman wrote:
[snip]
> ObConlang: I've been tossing around ideas for a script for Ajuk, and am
> looking for alternative ideas for systems of capitalization from those
> used in the Roman alphabet, and alphabets with no capitals.
[snip]

Ebisedian's writing system, sanoki', is semi-syllabic: consonants are
written with "full glyphs", and vowels following a consonant are written
as diacritics on the consonant; standalone vowels have a full-glyph
version. All full glyphs have 4 forms: a regular, non-prominent form, a
somewhat prominent end-of-word form, a prominent end-of-sentence form, and
a very embellished end-of-paragraph form. The writing has no spaces; words
are liberally broken across lines (since the glyph form of the final
syllable makes it clear where a word ends).

In other words, instead of capitalizing the initial letters in a sentence,
like English, sanoki' "capitalizes" the *end* of something: a word, a
sentence, or a paragraph. (Incidentally, this means there are 4 levels of
"capitalizations" as opposed to only two; although the embellished glyphs
are mainly just ligatures of the regular glyphs with end-of-word/sentence/
paragraph "squiggles".)


T

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