Re: many and varied questions

Michael Poxon wrote:

>Dear Etak,
>My conlang also has a syllabary. I have never felt the need to distinguish
>any sort of "case" (in the sense of upper case - lower case). As far as I
>know, it's only a few languages based on the Greek alphabet (Roman,
>Cyrillic) that have this distiction. Basically, nobody really needs capital
>letters!
>
>
Talking about capital letters, my wierdlang, Kalon, has a huge number of
different kinds of letters.

The first letter of the first word
The rest of the first word
The last letter of the last word
The rest of the last word
A different kind of letter for common nouns of each gender
and a different set for proper nouns
adjectives take the same writing system as the correspoding noun, except
in dictionaries, where they have another type altogether
verbs, too, have their own writing system
and adverbs
if the writer wishes to emphasise a particular point, he may do so by
putting it in the emphatic writing system
Neologisms also have their own system

It has about twelve or so consonants, and five vowels(plus a zero, it's
an abugida), so around 289 symbols for seventeen sounds(That's a lie.
There are in fact many more than that, perhaps approaching a hundred,
but officially, according to Kalonian scholars, there are seventeen.
That's their story and they're sticking to it.)