Re: Ayeri: Menan Coyalayamoena ena McGuffey

On Thursday 07 April 2005 21:11 CEST, Roger Mills wrote:

 > (Most of our conlangs, Ayeri included I think, also boast
 > orthographies with near one-to-one correspondence.
 > Maggel excluded...)

Well, at least the romanisation of it. The writing system I
recently came up with for example usually does not indicate
|a|'s respectively the lack of them. And the letter for -Vi
or -Vy is always written to the *left* of a consonant, not
to the right, although the system is other wise strictly
left-to-right[1]. That certainly mixes up beginners very
much. First, you have to know where there is an <a> and
where not, so you need to learn the look of words and then,
you also need to understand the context to interpret them
right. A primer would of course have either all a's
indicated or use the virama very much until a certain
level.

The writing system is not completely phonetic because they'd
write for example _Añ sil·vyin ayon:ris·_ instead of "Ang
silvayin ayonáris". Leave out the raised dots for adults.

Carsten

[1] This raises a question: The Proto-Semitics, were they
mostly left-handed, or why are semitic languages written
from right to left? It would be more natural for a
left-handed person. I guess left-to-right became the
standard direction in Europe because most people are right
handed and writing is easier for them that way.

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