Re: Constructed vertical writing systems?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 2:58 |
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:58:55 +0800, tk1@DESPAMMED.COM wrote:
>Good day all,
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>I am new here, so apologies if I am asking in the wrong forum.
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>I am interested in vertical writing systems. So far the only such writing
>systems I know of are classical Chinese (and derivates e.g. Khitan), Manchu,
>Tolkien's Sarati, and Aniese (by iisem). Are there any other vertical
>writing systems around? If so, where can I find information on them?
I did a few vertical scripts many years ago: Kazat Akkorou, Yortry, and
Sarkai. Kazat Akkorou is a somewhat Mongolian-looking script, and the
Yortry script is a variation of it. Crude mouse-drawn examples of the Kazat
Akkorou and Sarkai scripts are on my Kolagian Writing page at
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/KolagianWriting.html . I really ought to
scan in some hand-drawn Kazat Akkorou some time; it doesn't look quite as
bad as that. There's even a bit of a language to go with it, but not a very
developed language even by my standards of the time.