Re: SCript
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 30, 2002, 20:33 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> Yes, it is; and what might be interesting would be to develop a writing
> system where the tri-consonantal combo is written as one symbol, thus each
> word would have just two symbols: one denoting the vowel pattern + one
> denoting the triconsonantal combo. I wonder what one would call such a
> script? :)
The consonants are vaguely like hieroglyphics. In a case of a
Semetic-style language, I think you'd have to call it a variant of a
logographic system, since each consonantal combo would represent a
word-stem. The vowel pattern symbol would be a kind of abstract
(ideo?)gram.
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