Re: introduction...

# Do you mean physically higher, e.g. fellow on the roof is "higher" than
# the fella standing next to the fireplace on the ground floor?  Or status,
# or something else entirely?  What a neat concept, whichever way.  :-)
#

No... in respect to 1st 2nd 3rd person. 2 being higher than 1. 3 being higher
than two.. etc.

# Great website.  :-)  I especially enjoy the script; were there any
# particular influences or inspirations you could share?  I am also curious
# as to the romanization of the vowels: some use the diaresis while others
# take the circumflex; any particular reason?  (I also confess some of  your
# characters are appearing as British pound symbols and copyright
# symbols...I will have to figure out how to get my browser to stop doing
# that.)
#

The script origionally started as an attempt to vaguely represent tounge
position in the mouth for each sound, using only a few straight lines.
Hand written, it was all smushed together so that words formed a contiguous
block. But since i dont know how to actually create fonts, my initial attempt at
representing the true script with a series of images made it look too much
like devanagari. So I made them seperate. Perhaps if I get a scanner, or
time draw a few words in photoshop, i'll put them up on the website
so one can see the evolution of the script.

I use a, o, and u with diaresis to indicate the front counterpart of
the back vowels, and i and e with circumflex to indicate the back counterpart
of front vowels. I would have used diaresis on all, but I just don't like the
way i with diaresis looks. :)  And of course e had to get circumflex too,
for some semblance of continuity.

-tim

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