Re: Script evolution
| From: | Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 9, 2000, 9:13 |
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Barry wrote:
>The second part is, did any of you "evolve" your scripts? Meaning, if you
>derived it from another script, did you write out the glyphs several
>times to get a descendant script? And, if you made your own from scratch,
>dod you make a "proto-script", and then evolve the letter forms from that?
>Or did you guys just keep writing out characters until you found a look
>you liked?
The Boreanesian script evolved directly from Kavi, an ancient script
of Southeast Asians. What I did was to learn what I needed from Kavi
in order to transcribe Boreanesian. Then I wrote it out several times
(over a period of 2 years) with the writing material in mind (palm
leaves or bamboo) to get a descendant script. At present, it looks
like a cross between Javanese, Balinese, Buginese, and Cham. It has a
curvilinear appearance where semicircles dominate.
-kristian- 8)