Syllabaries [was Re: t-shirt]
From: | Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, September 27, 2000, 23:15 |
Eviendadil has a pseudo-syllabic alphabet. Each syllable is one
character, but the characters are constructed out of symbols for
sounds.
I have something like 700 possible syllables, each of which is made
of an optional intitial consonant, a vowel and an optional final
consonant.
Saran edorir,
Matthew Kehrt
Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> Neat! :-) Then I had to be stupid and have it a syllabically written
> alphabet, like Korean--but I can't think of any other alphabets that do
> something like that (I'm sure one must be out there) and the conculture
> has certain very distant bases in Korean history, so I thought, why not?
>
> YHL
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