Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ    Attic   

Re: A script puzzle

From:Peter Collier <petecollier@...>
Date:Thursday, December 4, 2008, 21:19
Maybe Urdu, or Persian then?

--------------------------------------------------
From: "Alex Fink" <000024@...>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:11 PM
To: <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Re: A script puzzle

> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:05:57 +0100, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> > wrote: > >>Hallo! >> >>On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:15:17 -0500, Alex Fink wrote: > [...] >>> http://000024.org/conlang/scriptpuzzle.pdf > [...] >>It reminds me a bit of Maimieux's Pasigraphie, (which doesn't >>use digits, but a small set of basic symbols that look more >>like digits than letters, with diacritics), from the overall >>visual appearance, but that isn't quite the thing, I guess. > > I can't google up much good information about Maimieux's pasigraphie. > What's it like? > >>> Hints (perhaps): I didn't feel like making this read RtL as arguably it >>> should have, and I've also omitted a bunch of superscript circles to >>> reduce >>> clutter. [...] >> >>Hmmmm - lots of diacritics including lots of superscript circles, >>and written right to left? That sounds a lot like Arabic, but >>your script doesn't resemble that much. > > Not Arabic, no, but you're within striking distance: the script in > question, > and those features in particular, were definitely formed under Arabic > influence. > > Alex