Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?

On Tue, 25 May 2004 19:55:59 -0400, Javier BF <uaxuctum@...> wrote:

> [Danny Wier]
>
>> > 1) If your conlangs are written in two-case
>> > alphabets/abjads/syllabries, what are the rules?
>
> It just occurred to me: Could a case be made for a higher-
> than-two-case system, say, a three-case system with uppercase,
> lowercase and 'middlecase'?  Come to think of it, in a way
> that's what we actually have already... counting small caps!
> Any idea for a four-case system?
I have an "intermediate" stage in Thagojian, whereby "important" nouns
(usually historical personal and place names) are written in the
cuneiform-derived logo-syllabary (including the use of the character
derived from dingir (which just happens to look like a crucifix) before
holy names), whereas the rest of a text would be written in the alphabetic
script. The alphabetic script is uncial, though, so I don't know exactly
where it stands in your number-of-cases classification. Maybe this is more
readily compared to the situation in Japanese than it is to questions of
case?

I don't have an example text immediately to hand, but in later texts (even
into the fully-alphabetic stage), YHWH is written "DINGIRÿhwh".




Paul

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