Re: Featural Alphabets (was Re: Boustrophedon and Chinese (was Re: A single font can

Hey.

For featural alphabets predating the list, look at Tolkien's Tengwar
found in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings. It is not completely
feature-based, but enough is that I would give him pride of place
among featural conscripts.

Dirk

On 10/14/05, tomhchappell <tomhchappell@...> wrote:
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@W...>
> > wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Old Albic, in its own featural alphabet, is written bottom-to-top,
> > starting on the left side.
> > [snip]
>
> 1. Is Old Albic's featural alphabet available on-line?  Where?
>
> 2. "Featural Alphabets" really intrigue me.  Alexander Melville
> Bell's "Visible Speech" system is the closest thing to a "Featural
> Alphabet" I've ever seen.
> King Sejong's Hangeul system for Korean is supposed to be a
> featurography, but I don't think it really is.
> Something that had each "characteristic feature" denoted by a
> particular one of Gary's tinkertoys would be more of a "featural
> alphabet".
> Is anyone onlist aware of any "featural alphabets" predating the
> existence of the ConLang list?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Tom H.C. in MI
>
>

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