Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:26:59 -0700 Stone Gordonssen
<stonegordonssen@...> writes:
> >Just F.Y.I.: The term "ideograph" is currently deprecated. The
> >preferred term today is "logogram."
> Anyhone here ever develop a ideographic/logographic written form for
> his/her conlang?
> I thought of this for my Laafaah, but then rejected it as too
> difficult for the PCs in my RPG campaign.
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I did somewhat.  For an Anthropology course i took we had to create an
ideographic writing system for an assignment.  I thought that it'd be
sort of useless to try and come up with a writing system without a
language to go with it, so i made it an 'alternative' writing system for
Rokbeigalmki.  Since Rokbeigalmki is agglutinative, it ended up being a
'morphemograph' system.
There were certain words that we needed to use to write a passage in the
system, but in order to get a sensical passage i ended up having to
invent a lot more morphemographs than for just the listed words.
The final result is at:
http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~bh11744/theszhes.gif
The long vertical lines with dots are just guide-lines for keeping the
character spacing even.

As i was making it i decided that this system was a short-lived attempt
to create a Rokbeigalmki writing system, which went on conculturally just
before someone came up with the idea to invent an alphabet.  So a few of
the signs were 'borrowed' from this system into the alphabet, sometimes
with some modification.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "...some will fall in love with life / and drink it from a fountain
  that is pouring like an avalanche / coming down the mountain..."
     ~ 'pepper' by butthole surfers