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Re: Arabic style script

From:B Elliott Walker <umwalk05@...>
Date:Sunday, April 23, 2000, 3:39
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this script reminds me a bit of the mandaic abjad, actually. pretty cool stuff, i say. byron
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Well not quite ;). But, the script has a cursive style that looks similar to Arabic or Aramaic (not as curvy as Arabic, and not as angular as Aramaic). It's not an abjad but an actual aphabet there are separate characters for vowels. I did take some of the letter forms from Arabic, but they dont represent the same sounds (well, for a, it looks like Alif, but it has initial and medial forms like lam). Dots distinguish charactes that may come out as another in fast writing, and they also mark characters for sounds not found in my personal language (which is what this was intended for). http://student.monterey.edu/dh/garciabarryjames/world/cursive.gif ________________________________________________ The rattan basket criticizes the palm leaf basket, still both are full of holes.