Featural scripts (was Re: Now trying to decide on a Tech abjad/alphasyllabry....)
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 19:32 |
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Hallo!
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:36:58 -0600,
Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote:
> [...]
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> I have considered and am still considering a featural script along the lines
> of Tolkien's scripts, and also Hangul. I just can't come up with something
> that pleases me! [...]
I understand very well what you mean, as I have been experimenting
with various featural scripts myself. It is not easy to come up
with a featural script that (1) looks pleasing and (2) avoids
having letters that look all to much alike. But the script that
I now have under closer examination for Old Albic pleases me
quite well (unfortunately, I don't have an image file available),
so it stands a good chance of becoming canonized as the Old Albic
script. It is a featural alphabet written from bottom to top.
Obviously, designing a script (featural or otherwise) becomes more
challenging the more phonemes the language has, because you need
more disctinctions with a large phonology (except when the script
is logographic). Old Albic with its 18 consonants and 7 vowels
is certainly less of a challenge than Tech ;-)
Greetings,
Jörg.
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