Re: RFC: A writing system for Eretas

Keith Gaughan sikyal:

> While I've been away, I've put in a fair bit of work on revising one of
> my languages, Eretas. Part of that work was coming up with a writing system
> for it. What I came up with was a featural code that looks as if it borders
> on being an abjad.
>
> I'm kind of interested in what everybody thinks of it primarily from an
> aesthetic point of view. The post[1] contains a fair bit of detail on how
> the writing system itself works, but I've yet to actually write an entry
> that describes it in full.
It's very pretty. It looks very difficult to write, but that can be said
about a lot of writing systems. I would definitely like to see a longer
example.

The ends of the tails were a bit long, was the only thing. Perhaps a
little less steep of a pen angle, next time.

I noticed this in your writings:

"came up with glyphs for the rhotics, liquids, sibilants, nasals, and a
way of explicitly marking syllable-final intervocallic consonants without
resorting to doubling the consonant like I needed to to for the latin
orthography."

Do you mean you have syllabifications like [kat.o]? That's quite
odd--perhaps you can explain it.


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