Re: Keyboard Remapping in Win 3.1 & 95

Rob writes:
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Van: Roland Hoensch <hoensch@...>
Aan: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Onderwerp: Keyboard Remapping in Win 3.1 & 95
Datum: woensdag 6 oktober 1999 8:31

> Has anyone tried to invent a script anything like Hangul?  Coincidentally
it happens to be an invented script.  Invented by some > Korean King who
wanted people to be able to read and write more easily.

I am very much intrigued by Maya hieroglyphs. They have about the same
thing: symbols (for syllables) are placed together to form a block. I
wanted to make something like that: words existing of one form that has
encoded all sounds of that word, but I never succeeded. Gladilatian has
something like that (I have no URL) : one form per syllable.
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Mayan is surely more like Egyptian (or maybe old Chinese), if anything else.

One thing I note about syllabaries is that the possible syllable structure is
generally very simple, usually somthing like CV, C(y)V or C(w)V.  The number
(and nature) of C's is also pretty "manageable", (less than a dozen, often stops
and one or two nasals).  Mayan looks to have a large number of disyllabic signs,
and a far larger number of phonemes than Korean, Japanese, Cretan and so forth.
Mayan also looks to use a lot of rebus signs and other visual and auditory
punning, as well as ideographic determinatives.  Also, IIRC, Mayan uses
dirrerent glyphs to differentiate some homophones.

Hence, to my mind, it seems more like a particularly imaginative "variant" of
the Egyptian system.



Just my 0.02,


Paul








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