Re: Kamakawi Orthography

On Mar 20, 2008, at 5:59 AM, David J. Peterson wrote:
> I've just completed the first step of a very large project.
>
> For who knows how many years now, I've been creating an
> orthography for Kamakawi.  It was inspired by Egyptian
> hieroglyphs, and I wanted the system to be similar.  The
> resultant system is as follows:
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Very impressive!

> Though I haven't counted all the glyphs yet (once I finish the
> Unicode listing I'll have a full count), there are easily more than
> 600.  According to Trent Pehrson's definition, the system is a
> complex writing system:
>
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20070707102252/http://
> idrani.perastar.com/idrani/ISMS_orthography.htm#complex>
>
> (Thank goodness for archive.org!  Anyone know what happened
> to Trent or his site?)

It appears it's still around, although the specific URL for the
script page (and maybe others) has changed. It's <http://
idrani.perastar.com/ISMS_orthography.htm>.

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