Re: Con-Alphabets & Real Languages

--- In conlang@y..., Anton Sherwood <bronto@P...> wrote:

> ... I cannot easily believe that your `f' and `v' would remain
> distinguishable in a hasty hand, or in scratching on wood.
In hand writing, the <v> would probably acquire a curl like the
calligraphic version, or a third stroke like the Latin <z>.


> ... Ligatures for /pm/ etc, but not for /mp/ ?  Curious.
That's because /mp/ spans two syllables, but /?m/ doesn't.  In the
vowel-on-consonant mode, the syllable structure of an Obrenje word is
immediately clear, thanks to all stops being recognizable by their
descenders.  Writing /mp/ in a single consonant would make a word like
/sam.pa/ appear to have an open first syllable /sa.mpa/, which is not
the case.  A word like /sa.pma/ does have an open first syllable
though, according to Obrenje syllabification rules.


> ... Did you use Fontographer or some such?
Exactly.


-- Christian Thalmann