Re: Visual. Inuit and other things.

Abrigon Gusiq wrote:
> Some form of visual language for translation would be grand, something
> similiar to how Chinese works. Two or more) languages that technically are
> not related can be called Chinese.
China has five types of languages and each of them has dialects, but
almost 1/4 population of entire people on the planet can read the same
paper. Japanese language is totally different from Chinese, but since
the ancestors borrowed Kanji characters, Japanese have learned a lot
from Chinese writings.

I learned Tai-Chi and Sword Tai-Chi from a 84 year old Kantonese teacher
who spoke only Kantonese, and found out how Kanji worked well for the
communication between us.

Also I got shocked when I could understand the meaning of some 1500 year
old Chinese calligraphy in spite of my ignorance of spoken Chinese. That
gave me the inspiration of the Earth Language(EL).

But I don't want to call EL Chinese, even if it's a visual based
language. Because many of Chinese characters were made by their ancient
cultures.
 eg:  The Kanji of 'Character' was made combination of House and Child.
They had a ritual when a baby was born, writing its name and reported to
the house temple of their ancestors. That was the beginning of
'Character', they says.  The structure combined traditional images is
not good for a worldwide understandable visual basis.

 The EL bases are for common elements of human recognition in the earth
emvironment. Kanji are formed combining parts from about 250, but
impossible for type-combining. So the system needs thousands of fonts.
EL uses only 89 including numeral, brackets, etc., and compound them
mechanically. Also each bacis coresponds with the hand-sign and the one
syllable name. So sign-comunications are available while speaking each
native language. If necessary, vocal communication is not impossible
also. The EL possibility is much larger than Kanji has.

If someone could help to check the EL system from other angles, I would
be happy. I already found many problems, and keeping repairing it now.
 Thanks, Yoshiko

 (kamos@sfo.com)
The Earth Language Homepage:
http://www.sfo.com/~ucathinker/earth/english/ehome.htm