>On Friday, November 16, 2001, at 07:19 , Barry Garcia wrote:
>
>>The syllable forms are simple, but still cursive, and the diacritics are
>>fairly "artistic". The name of the script in Saalangal is "kuraw" which
>>means "sounds". The script is here:
>>
>>
http://student.csumb.edu/dh/garciabarryjames/world/images/kuraw.jpg
>It's quite lovely. Was it meant to be written on palm leaves? :-)
>(Kratzner claims that *some* script, I can't remember which, is quite
>curved because straight strokes would split the palm leaves on which it
>was written--which I think *sounds* true, and even if it isn't true for
>that particular script, is an interesting thing to think about. I've
>tried "writing" on wide blades of grass and remember the problem with
>straight strokes there.)