Re: A new script

Tim May writes:
 > Well, I've been working on and off on a featural alphabet for about as
 > long as I've been on Conlang now (several months) and I've now got it
 > to the stage where I'm fairly happy with most of the basic concepts
 > and letterforms.  I don't have a scanner or a graphics tablet, so I've
 > made images with a vector drawing program.  It's really a compromise
 > between making a script that'll suit my conlang LC-01 well, and making
 > a universal phonetic script.
 >
 > So, the consonants are here:
 > http://mysite.freeserve.com/butsuri/consonants1.png
 >
 > They're labelled, an as such fairly self explanatory.  Not all of
 > these are phonemes in LC-01, by the way.  I'm not sure if a dental
 > lateral approximant is even possible.
 >
 > The vowels and semivowels are here:
 > http://mysite.freeserve.com/butsuri/vowels2.png
 >
 > These aren't labelled, because I'm lazy. Each set of three glyphs

Okay, I've labelled the vocalic characters in LC-01 romanization.
They're now here:

http://mysite.freeserve.com/butsuri/vowels1.png

For the IPA values, see my previous post.

 >Finally, there's a transliteration of a short English phrase here:
 >http://mysite.freeserve.com/butsuri/text1.png
 >
 >so you can see how the vowels relate to the consonants in continuous
 >text.

The real advantage of this script for LC-01 is the way vowels,
consonants and semivowels show up - the morphology of the language is
far from complete, but I'm pretty sure that consonants represent
roots, vowels represent inflections and semivowels _sometimes_ modify
consonants so that they're not part of roots.

 >
 > So, what do people think?
 >

I haven't had any comments on this so far, which I guess serves me
right for posting on Friday night, when the list volume's so low
anyway.

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