Re: New Script

On Friday, November 16, 2001, at 07:19 , Barry Garcia wrote:

> Well, not quite. I decided to do a new version of the Saalangal script,
> one that was a little "fancier" than the old one. I've made up a story
> that will work in my world, because i can like....do that and stuff :).
>
Neatness.  :-)
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> The script looks close to a Southern Indian script, but the letter forms
> aren't derived from them. There is argument though, as the glyph for /a/
> looks much like the glyph for the same in Kannada and Telugu, but that may
> be coincidental. It's also possible that "ta" may be derived, because it
> resembles the Indian Pallava prototype, sans top bar. It does however
> follow the diacritic pattern of an indic script (such as a doubling of the
> diacritic for /e/ to make the diacritic for the diphthong /aj/).
>
> 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.)

Will you have any writing samples for this script?

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