Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Conscripts 101

From:John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...>
Date:Saturday, April 7, 2007, 20:46
Chris Peters wrote:
>Am I missing any major classes of writing styles?
[snip]
>What I have in mind [snip] is a Hangul-like alphabetic >cluster system for the main content words, compounded with an ideographic >mark-up system to write grammatical markers like verb tenses and noun cases.
[snip] Does such a beast exist in any natlang? I wouldn't be
>surprised to find it in somebody else's conlang, so I'd like to see examples >of those as well. >_________________________________________________________________
I don't think any natlang script does it, but what you're describing above is getting close to the stage of a morpho-phonemic script, as exemplified by the Ithkuil writing system. If interested, check out Chapter 11 at www.ithkuil.net. Cheers! --John Quijada