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Re: Constructed vertical writing systems?

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 2:58
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:58:55 +0800, tk1@DESPAMMED.COM wrote:

>Good day all, > >I am new here, so apologies if I am asking in the wrong forum. > >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.