Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?
| From: | Carsten Becker <post@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 19:06 |
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Hello!
From: "Paul Bennett" <paul-bennett@NC.RR.COM
<mailto:paul-bennett@...>>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:29 AM
Subject: Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small
letters?
> On Tue, 25 May 2004 19:55:59 -0400, Javier BF <uaxuctum@YAHOO.ES
<mailto: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 just wanted to add that Javanese script (see omniglot.com) also
behaves similar: There are the Aksara consonants (the normal ones), the
Pasangan consonants for C+C clusters, the Aksara murda consonants for
the initials of names and the subscript Aksara murda consonants for C+C
name initials. And there's the punctuation (looks really complicated...)
and of course there are the vowels.
-- Carsten
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