Re: my iconic alphabet

Welcome to the list Nathan. Have you ever seen the Canadian Syllabry, which
is used to write native languages like Cree, Blackfoot, Inuktitut, Slavey,
and Dakelh (Carrier)? The last one of these is my favorite. It uses slight
modifications of characters to distinguish voiceless from voiced or plain
from aspirated from ejective (like your dot marks voicelessness). Each shape
represents a consonant; the direction it is pointed in represents the
associated vowel.

Also, Hangul, the alphabet-syllabry used to write Korean phonetically, is
based on fundamental shapes in the same fashion.

Go here: http://www.omniglot.com/.

~Danny~ (meow)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Richardson" <nathan000000@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:04 PM
Subject: my iconic alphabet


> Howdy all. I just registered for this egroup. Looks
> like it will be fun.
>
> While I find artificial languages a fascinating and
> engaging hobby, I am even more interested in
> artificial writing systems, constructed scripts. I
> wanted to tell you about my recent creation, which I
> call an iconic alphabet. I tried to make an alphabet
> in which similar sounds have similar shapes. I have
> posted a section about it on my nascent website. You
> can just look at the final alphabet, or read the whole
> explanation (it's about 6 minutes of reading).
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/folk/nathan000000/alphabet.html