Re: New Script
From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
Date: | Saturday, November 17, 2001, 6:42 |
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Beautiful! Coincidentally, the SA is almost the same in Kash (actually
>your
>TA is Kash S).
>What is the purpose of the "full" AY, EY, AW characters (as opposed to the
>subscript signs)? I forget Saalangal phonology-- are initial or isolated
>AY, EY etc. syllables possible?
The full ay, ey, aw, oy characters are for things like initial diphthongs,
such as if we had the word: aymang - ay - mang. Isolated dipthongs are
possible, i cant think of any words that are isolate diphthongs at the
moment (read: i'm revising the language, again :)).
I had over the course of several days refined the diacritics and glyps
down to something simple, yet somewhat complex in form. I like the end
result. If I like it enough...maybe i'll get a tattoo that includes it :)
(which means i'll have to make sure i like all of the glyphs as they are).
They aren't used that often. The glyphs are a saalangal innovation (using
the "initial" vowel in the diphthong, plus the diacritic for the diphthong)
See you, Space Cowboy...