Re: 107 glyphs!

Scan that paper in so we can see!

Barry Garcia wrote:

>I was doing the calligraphic style of kuraw tonight by hand and wow, i
>counted 111 known glyphs of the script, both simple and complex conjunct
>characters. My hand hurts, it's such a task to do the calligraphic
>variant, i can see why the Saalangal only use it for very special
>purposes! It's very pretty though. Imagine being a child and expected to
>know all 107 glyphs, plus the vowel and diphthong diacritics, and the
>accent and vowel killer (Virama), that's about 117 different marks to
>know, AND you have to know them in the three major forms, each one being a
>bit different from each other.
>
>It's really easy to do the calligraphic base characters, but the conjuncts
>get to be more involved and complex. Some look like they're made from two
>different glyphs, although most look the same as they should if you just
>joined two glyphs together. My favorites that are tricky and don't really
>tell you the two base glyphs from looking at them are tsa, tya,tma, and
>tla.
>
>I have it in mind to do a bunch of paintings of single calligraphic
>characters and embellish them like illuminated manuscript capitals.