Know of any other writing form that would make a good
replacement for Englishs latin characters?
And not the IPA (international phonetic alphabet), its just not
workable as is.. to many little details that determine sound..
or
Am I writing the I with a dot on top, or a mark?
Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Newton" <philip.newton@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:39 AM
Subject: Re: Adapting non-Latin scripts
> On 5/24/06, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Michael Adams <abrigon@...>
> > >
> > >Is the Latin characters really that good for English?
>
> Nah, not that great. One problem is that English has far more
phonemic
> vowels than Latin, for starters. (It could be worse -- try
fitting
> Arabic to English, for example, with only three vowel signs.)
>
> > >I know for my conlang, it does not fit well, or can be
> > >okay, but since my conlang is mostly things like
> > >consonant-vowel combos, then would the latin be better
> > >or .. soemthing like Sanskrit or what wring form?
> >
> > Mostly CV syllables seems an ideal job for something like
Devanagari (the Sanskrit script), or any of the other Indic
scripts.
>
> Or an abugida along the lines of Ethiopian? That encodes CV in
one
> sign, but doesn't use the "no diacritic = inherent vowel"
principle of
> Devanagari. Or UCAS, as Paul mentioned.
>
> > I suspect if you had overwhelmingly CV syllables, you might
prefer a straight syllabary like Japanese or UCAS.
>
> I'd call UCAS an abugida rather than a "straight syllabary" --
the
> forms for syllables with a common consonant but different
vowels are
> obviously related.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>