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Re: One Ring to rule them all ...

From:Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
Date:Monday, August 22, 2005, 20:31
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:26:12 -0400, Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> wrote:

>Sure does! I wonder, Carsten, did you design this script a priori, or >did you derive it from some ancestor?
Both. The major influences came (I think) from Balinese [1], Javanese [2], Tibetan [3] and maybe also bits from Ahom [3] and Thai [4]. As for the last one, this is what my parents said when they first saw my doodlings laying around. I very much like those writing systems for their elegance. Carsten [1] http://www.omniglot.com/writing/balinese.htm [2] http://www.omniglot.com/writing/javanese.htm [3] http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tibetan.htm [4] http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ahom.htm [5] http://www.omniglot.com/writing/thai.htm