Re: Con-Alphabets & Real Languages

>From: Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
>Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:44:46 +0100
>
>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?
>
Yep.  That's why I included a "void consonant" in the Graavgaaln script,
too.  Graavgaaln vowels are written either super- or subscript and follow
the consonant over or under which they appear.  No Graavgaaln words have
vowels in initial position or dipthongs, so writting words fom langs that DO
have those features necesitated the vowel carrier.  With that Graavgaaln
script can handle just about anything it needs to.  My other langs have such
odd phonologies that they can't borrow most words from human langs
conviniently anyway.  If the only consonants you have are liquids and
semi-vowels how do you deal with human langs?  You don't.  You just learn
their weird alphabets along with their unpronounceable gibberish.

Adam

>
>-- Christian Thalmann

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