Re: Another idea for a script for Ayeri

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:56:34 +0200, Carsten Becker
<naranoieati@...> wrote:

>Hey!
>
>I've come up with another script for my conlang Ayeri
>recently. I couldn't stand the Javanese-like script anymore
>because everything looked far too similar and was
>unnececerilly complicated in some ways. The latest idea is
>a script that can be quite easily carved into stone or
>wood, that's why it has some kind of runic character. I was
>basically "inspired" by (read "I stole shapes from") Latin,
>Cyrillic, Tamil, Tengwar(?). Because I still have no
>scanner, I made a TTF font (not online yet) and wrote a PDF
>document (with OOO under Linux :-)) ) of the description:
>www.beckerscarsten.de/conlang/ayeri/ayerialphabet.pdf
><http://www.beckerscarsten.de/conlang/ayeri/ayerialphabet.pdf>
Nice script! Looks as if it could be evolved into a cursive version (in some
centuries).

I don't think that the forms you show is very suited to be carved on wood
due to the many right angles and the narrow parallels. I imagine that they
use another variant for wood carving.

g_0ry@_ˆs:
j. 'mach' wust

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