Re: CHAT: ConScripts

My self was trying to see about a Tengwar for Inuit or like
languages..

Professor Tolkien seemed like he had some more ideas than just
have it and Cirth as the scripts for his mythology.

Origin of Tengwar has been debated a few times, for me, it looks
alot like Sanskrit or a derivative of Sanskrit and like writing
or ..

Professor Tolkien was born in South Africa, so you never know..
With a large Indian (Hindu) and Indian (Muslim), and others, so
you never know.

My own finding Tolkien but also my AmerIndian ancestory and
Sequoyah got me into Paleographics and then Linguistics.. In
part that is, also got in via ancient middle eastern/Asia Minor
and Northern Africa history and culture.

Yes know of "Empire of the Petal Throne"..

Anyone done a book on the various ConScripts over time? To
include Hengu (sp) of Korea?

Mike



----- Original Message -----
From: "Herman Miller" <hmiller@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: ConScripts


> Michael Adams wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut_syllabics
> >
> > Tolkiens Tengwar and Cirth..
> >
> > What other conscripts are there?
> >
> > Klingons don't they have their own conscript?
> >
> > Some now NATScripts started as Conscripts..
> >
> > Someone taking an already existing script and adapting it
for
> > another language.
> >
> > Such as Old Church Slavonic and Cyrillic was based on Greek
but
> > took it further and also more..
> >
> > Mike
>
> Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary is probably one of the most
familiar. Some
> of the symbols look like letters of the Latin alphabet, but
they're used
> for different sounds. Additionally there was a handwritten
version of
> the alphabet that didn't look much like the Latin alphabet at
all, but
> the printed version is the one usually seen.
>
> As far as scripts for conlangs, M.A.R Barker created an
elaborate
> alphabet for his languages (Engsvanyáli, Tsolyáni, and so on),
from the
> "Empire of the Petal Throne" series of games. Each consonant
has
> initial, final, medial, and isolated forms; vowels are marks
placed
> above or below the consonant.
>
> And of course many of us on the list have our own scripts for
our own
> languages. Back when pencil and paper was the main technology
I used to
> create my languages, I had a script for almost every language.
A few of
> the more common ones are illustrated on one of my web pages:
>
> http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/KolagianWriting.html
>
> More recently, I designed Tharkania and Ljoerr-teg, which were
intended
> as more or less "universal" scripts for writing many
languages. Ljoerr
> (also variously romanized as Ljörr, Lhoerr or Lhörr) is a
script based
> on phonetic features, which I devised for writing Jarda.
>
> http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Jarda/Ljoerr.html
>
> At one time I had a sample of writing in Tharkania used for
writing the
> Jaghri language, but I can't find it now. However, I found the
original
> Tharkania font, which had been missing for years.
>
> ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/fonts/THARN___.TTF
>
> Pintek is a braille-like writing system created for the Janarr
raccoon
> people to use for reading in the dark. It was based on the
same set of
> phonetic features used in the Ljoerr script.
>
> And then there's the Vlika script, which has had several
variations over
> the years. Vlika is now the script used for writing the
Virelli language
> and related languages spoken by the Zireen; I'm intending to
use a
> variation of this script for Yasaro, once I figure out the
sound
> changes. But originally it was the script used for writing
Tirelat.
>
> http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Tirelat/script.html