Con-Alphabets & Real Languages

Inspired by the different modes of Tengwar, I added a few more
characters to my original con-alphabet for Obrenje to allow more for
more language modes.  It seems to work nicely with English, German and
Latin so far.

http://catharsis.netpeople.ch/langmaking/nba.gif

The traditional way of writing Obrenje is with superscript vowels,
which seemed a bit too constrictive for use with other langs.  Also, I
found the alphabet mode to be visually more attractive than the
superscript mode...

http://catharsis.netpeople.ch/langmaking/nbo.gif

...though it looks somewhat neater in the calligraphy font.  =)

http://catharsis.netpeople.ch/langmaking/nca.gif

You might have noticed that the script has some resemblance to Tengwar,
especially as far as the consonant patterns and the vowel carrier is
concerned.  Rest assured, though, that I devised my script before I
(consciously?) came into contact with Tengwar.  I used to call the vowel
carrier the void consonant then.  =P


Anyway, has anybody else given thought to the representation of foreign
languages in your conscripts?


-- Christian Thalmann

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