Re: Deseret alphabet

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:53:16 +1000, Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
wrote:

>Raen-Fransua Colsunu ?raet:
>
>> My interest is now on the Deseret alphabet and how I could adapt it to write
>> a conlang.
>
>If you aren't going to use an established orthography (like Roman,
>Greek, Cyrillic, Georgian, Chinese, Japanese, Tolkien's), I'd suggest
>creating your own. Ones like Roman and Cyrillic, which have already been
>adapted to plenty of languages, are probably your best bet.
>
>Deseret probably wouldn't look the same if anyone really changed to use
>it---pairs of letters like long ah and long o are just *dying* to be
>confused. (Not to mention that it's just plain ugly :P )
>
>On the subject of this, has anyone made a conlang that uses Kanji?
Kirezagi. http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/kirezagi.html

One way you can tell that it's using Kanji as opposed to Hanzi is that I
use the character U+9ED2 instead of U+9ED1 for "black". But since I wrote
the web page, I've learned that the Tanja people who speak Kirezagi
originally came from remote areas of China, so it'd make more sense to use
the Chinese encoding of the characters.

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