Re: Look what I found!

Roger Mills wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Danny Wier <dawier@...>
>
>
>>The Lord's Prayer in various conlangs, including one of our own --
>>Watakassi:
>>
>>http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/index-uz.html#const
>>

And there is also Verdurian. Mark Rosenfelder used to be on the
list, no?

>Neat stuff!! Did you look at Javanese?  One of the most elegant scripts in
>the world IMHO......and a complete, tho hard to read, explanation of the
>script too.
The Boreanesian script is somewhat an offshoot of Javanese. They
differ as much as say Cyrillic or Greek from Roman. Better yet,
it differs as much as Balinese differs from Javanese. So I bet if
you can read Balinese or Javanese, one would have little difficulty
in reading Boreanesian. Understanding what is read is, of course,
another story.

>_Essang (Talaud)_ had an interesting script, no transcription, apparently R
>to L-- maybe similar to Old Tagalog script.  Barry??
Well, I'm the other Filipino on the list, so I think I can also
answer. It looks very suspicious to me -- perhaps even a mistake.
It bears no resemblance to any Indic script in the Philippines or
nearby Sulawesi. First of all, it appears to be written from R-L,
which none of the local scripts of the area that I'm aware of does.
Secondly, it looks a lot like the Syriac script, an offshoot of
the Aramaic script, which was used on the other side of the globe.
I suppose one explanation could be that the script featured in the
site is merely a variant of the Arabic script since Indonesia is a
predominantly Muslim country. But that itself could be problematic
since the Muloccas is a predominantly Christian area. But then,
again, Syriac was used by Christians. Hmmm... its all very very
confusing...

-kristian- 8)