Re: An arabo-romance conlang?

En réponse à Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>:

>
> Well, "The world's Writing Systems"  says that it developed as a branch
> of
>  Nabatean Aramaic script. The earliest writings are from the 4th
> century
> C.E. Since the script had more consonants than Aramaic, some of the
> letters were used for more than one consonant.  It wasnt until the 7th
> century that diacritical dots were devised to  disambiguate the
> similar
> looking consonants.
>
That gives me an idea for my Arabo-Romance conlang. It will be written with a
script looking like the Arabic script, the letters will have the same basic
shapes, but with different diacritical dots than the Arabic script (or maybe
not that much, let's accept some parallel evolution with our universe :) ). The
same thing will go with the vowel marks. They are likely not to be completely
comparable to the ones the Arabic script currently uses.

Christophe.

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