Re: New Orthography & Phonology Online

Theodore wrote:

>While I'm mulling over the next phase of work on Abibin, and the
>comments I got, I've put a little more effort into Agryziexabeiuie.
>It's at the URL below, if you're interested...
>
>http://netjunk.com/users/conlang/conlang2.htm
Hey, I love what you done with the script! It also reminded me a little of
Avestan and Malayalam.

Another thing -- you have a labiodental nasal as a phoneme (or do you?).
Great idea; I haven't seen it in any natlang or conlang, and it may not even
appear in my conlang, and it has a ton of consonants.  (I'll work it in
somehow; it'll be transliterated as underlined m, or mm or mh, depending on
the latinization scheme.  It's written natively as the m-series fidel in
Ge'ez, with a small horizontal bar connecting the two loops at the bottom
(they're of course naturally connected at the top.  This same tick mark
indicates alveolarism in r, l and n, and might have other uses as well.)

Come to think of it, I'm again considering a completely original alphabet
either in lieu of or in addition to the traditional Ge'ez syllabry, since I
don't know how to mark things like long/nasal/laryngealized vowels and
consonant mutation.  But the Ge'ez script is working out rather well, better
than what I was able to come up with using Arabic or Roman, and especially a
modified Coptic script, which got really messy (I tried to add Hebrew
characters and a bunch of diacritics).

If I do invent a Tech script, I want capitals and lower-case, and it'll be
ultimately based on Greek-Coptic, with possible Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian
and Armenian influence.

Danny

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