Re: Finally delurking, and some info on Ciktal

En réponse à Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>:

[snip explanation of the Uatakassi syllabary]

He he, it's nearly as complicated as Tj'a-ts'a~n writing, which uses the
ideograms it has sometimes for their meaning, sometimes for their sound
(especially to write affixes). But since the affixes don't follow the
morphology of the roots and also undergo consonnant and vowel harmony, the
result is never very good. Moreover, there are the ones who insist on writing
according to the pronunciation (or at least to approach it as much as possible)
and the ones who say that since the pronunciation of affixes is perfectly known
when the root is known, affixes only need one sign, which is then more
ideographic than phonetic. Anyway, none of them can come up with an unambiguous
orthography. This is worse than Sumerian!

>
> > By the way, thanks to taliesin and Nik Taylor for informing me that
> the
> > Conlanger Code is in version 1.1.
>
> That wasn't me, I don't use the code.  :-)
>
It was me :) .

Christophe.

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