Re: Shukaraz - new script

On Jul 12, 2004, at 7:59 AM, B. Garcia wrote:
> So, i've got another conscript (or Neography as they're called at
> langmaker.com) ready to show. This one i've worked at getting the
> aesthetics right *for me*. I've called it "Shukaraz" as a tentative
> name (which may stick) because i particularly like the sound
> (/Su'karaz/) and i like how it looks written out in the script (and
> yes, the name is supposed to sound vaguely Semitic).
> The script appears at first glance to be a kind of Aramaic script or
> related to Arabic. However, i did not just pull letters from Aramaic,
> or Arabic, or Mandaic, i simply took inspiration from letter forms in
> all of those scripts (and yes i've taken some of the forms, but others
> are mine). It is not at all an abugida, it is a pure alphabet, and it
> also is written from left to right, rather than right to left.

Help!  It keeps trying to get me to read it right to left!!!! :-P
Just as sneaky as Devanagari... ;-)


-Stephen (Steg)
   "It does not do to dwell on dreams... and forget to live."
      ~ harry potter and the philos- i mean sorcerer's stone