The NEW Kayasahtan Characters
From: | J. Burke <rtoennis@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 6:55 |
When I posted my syllabary a few days back, I accidentally linked to an old
version of the characters. This was the original message, which describes how the
writing system works:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0903d&L=conlang&T=0&F=&S=&P=14891
Below are links to the new, current version of the syllabary:
http://www.geocities.com/rtoennis/Cursive_In_Series.png
http://www.geocities.com/rtoennis/Cursive_Rotations.png
In the current version, the symbols make more visual sense, I think, and they're
more stylistically consistent; the symbols for similar sounds look more alike,
without being too similar and without the whole system being featural per se.
Series I and II, the stops/affricate and the nasals, are open curves; Series III,
the fricatives, have single loops; and Series IV, the liquid and semivowels, have
two loops. Which orientations represent which vowels have also changed; the
default (+a) direction is now northward, as opposed to westward. There's a
cultural reason for that particular change, but it'd take a while to explain.