Re: my iconic alphabet

Nathan Richardson wrote at 2003-03-28 14:04:03 (-0800)
 > 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
 >
 > If it's not too much trouble, I would greatly
 > appreciate comments or feedback
 > (nathan000000@yahoo.com). Thank you for your time!
 >

Welcome.  Your alphabet is interesting.  I've been working on a
somewhat similar script for a while.  It's in need of some
revision[1], and at present is something of a compromise between an
IPA-style universal phonetic alphabet and a phonemic script for my
developing conlang, but you might find it interesting.  I'm afraid I
don't have any html at present, just some images, but they're fairly
self-explanatory:
http://mysite.freeserve.com/butsuri/vowels1a.png
http://mysite.freeserve.com/butsuri/consonant_grid_1.jpg

One thing I notice is that you don't have enough vowels to represent
my dialect of English phonemically[2].

Have you ever studied the Korean Hangul alphabet?  It has certain
featural (what you call iconic, I think) aspects.


[1] I need to study phonetics in more detail before I go any further
    with this.
[2] Neither does my script, but the vowels there are (so far) only
    intended to represent the phonemes of my conlang (the vowel given
    as a-ring is /Q/ [3] which is the vowel in "hot" in my speech.
[3] See IPA chart with X-SAMPA:
    http://www.i-foo.com/~kturtle/misc/xsamchart.gif