>Barry 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 image link below shows the script. In the script you'll see in
>> columns each of the letter forms: unconnected, initial, medial, final.
>>
>
http://home.csumb.edu/g/garciabarry/world/language/scripts/shukaraz.jpg
>
>Very nice; very Arabic looking. Seeing the written form "shukaraz" it
>certainly looks as if it should be read right to left!! I wonder how that
>would (could?) actually be read in Arabic or whatever.???
Agreed. It's read from left to right?! I first looked over the word from
right to left. But then, when you look closer at the single letters -- yes,
it must be written from left to right. Very nice looking.
-- Carsten