Re: Preview of a New Non-Linear, Morpho-Phonemic Writing System

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, 23:48 CEST, John Quijada wrote:

 > At any rate, I've been looking for a way to "raise the
 > level" of the morpho-phonemic principle behind the
 > existing Ithkuil script so that it operates beyond a
 > single linear, sequential dimension, but is rather more of
 > a morphological "map" of a sentence. As a result, I have
 > come up with a radically new script which operates on
 > three different levels: actual characters which in turn
 > are presented within overlapping "cartouches" whose
 > shapes convey grammatical information,

So I am not the only one who thought about making a script
that represents all the morphological endings and stuff as
singel signs rather than written out as sounds.

 > while both characters and cartouches would in turn be
 > made up of any combination of three colors reducible to
 > white, black and gray (to accommodate color-blind readers,
 > monochrome display, engravings, etc.).

I'm diagnosed to be red blind to some degree for one. Very
nice of you. ;-)

 > The colors also convey grammatical information. The total
 > system would be even more morpho-phonemic than the current
 > Ithkuil script. In fact, it would carry very little purely
 > phonemic information at all, being almost entirely a
 > visual representation of the morphological analysis of
 > each sentence, i.e., essentially an intralinear analysis.

But the actual word stems are still formed phonetically, I
assume? I couldn't imagine how you could write them apart
from hieroglyphs.

 > In the examples below, each of the four groupings would
 > represent an entire sentence, so that the picture as whole
 > represents a "paragraph." Each cartouche and it's enclosed
 > symbols, more or less corresponds to a single word in the
 > spoken language, although, being primarily morphological
 > representations rather than phonological, the
 > correspondence is definitely not one-to-one.

Sounds like fun :-)

 > http://home.inreach.com/sl2120/New%20Script%20Experiment%203.GIF
 > http://home.inreach.com/sl2120/New%20Script%20Experiment%204.JPG
 > http://home.inreach.com/sl2120/New_Script_Explanation.JPG

I'm curious for the pictures, since I haven't got internet
access from my own machine.

Yours,
Carsten

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