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Alphabetic spookiness

From:Dan Jones <yl-ruil@...>
Date:Thursday, October 12, 2000, 15:45
I think yesterday I mentioned that I had developed an alphabet for Kansú
(called the kabrán, ultimately from kabr- "to write"). I basically took the
Aramaic alphabet and changed it around, assigning values to letters as I
wanted. Now it has occured to me that the Carastan script (which I developed
about two years ago from little pictograms) is obviously derived from the
Kansetic one.

For instance, Aramaic y becomes Kansú g, and as some may know it looks like
a barred Z. Carastan g is represented by three horizontal lines, i.e. Kansú
g but without the diagonal stroke. My head is playing games with me, I'm
sure of it.

Dan

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