Re: PIKTO (was: A Font for Pictographs)

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Shannon
> And one last thing before I go to bed: The embryonic
> beginnings of a pictographic conlang, PIKTO, using my new font:
>
> <http://fiziwig.com/glyph/picto01.html>
>
> This would be a good candidate for a collaborative conlang
> project, since the grammar is very simple and pidgin-like, so
> contributors would only have to use the pictographic font to
> draw new glyphs and submit them to the site. There would be
> no debates about phonology since the language isn't meant to
> be spoken.
I was thinking this would make a good logograpic writing system that
could be used in the same manner as Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja for writing
different languages.

Another would be to make the symbols, then assign each component a
phoneme that could be used to speak the language (I saw a language
like this once that made little pictures from it's alphabet but
don't remember the name).