Re: CHAT: 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

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