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Re: Shukaraz - new script

From:Carsten Becker @ school <post@...>
Date:Monday, July 12, 2004, 16:13
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:13:13 -0400, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:

>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