Re: Kuraw - Handwritten

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Neat!  I can't say *why,* but I'm reminded of lowercase Greek.  Or is it
>just the omicron/omega-like shapes?  (Caveat: The *only* Greek I know is
>from math/physics, so I'm sure my impressions are quite out-there...)  It
>looks like it's easy to write--it has a sort of natural beauty of "flow."
Hmm, i hadn't thought of that. I guess there is a kind of Greek quality to
a lot of the letters, i think the diacritcs give it that feel also. I
picked shapes for the letters based upon simplicity, yet a little
aesthetic interest, taking inspiration from such scripts as Tamil,
Malayalam, and Burmese. In my original email, i mentioned that some of the
shapes were simplified a bit, and the forms do lend themselves to fairly
fast writing (although "ba" sometimes gives me a little trouble, not used
to an initial "curl" there ;)). It doesnt take too much longer for me to
write it by hand than it does to print in Latin letters (of course i've
had much more practice with the Latin alphabet, naturally :)).

My favorite scripts flow and curl like eddies in water, vines, or soft
grasses :), which is why i love Arabic, and cursive chinese so much.



>Wow!  Handwritten Kuraw has a similar look to Handwritten
>Rokbeigalmki-script!
>The chart that i put at
>http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~bh11744/rokb-cyr.jpg
>has the handwritten style as its example of the native Rokbeigalmki
>alphabet, in the left column of each greater-column.
>Although Rokbeigalmki has much fewer diacritics, since it uses vowel
>letters - diacritics are used to mark construct compounds, names and
>ambiguous accentuations, and double-long vowels.
I went to your page earlier and thought the exact same thing. Some of the
letters have the same shape as some of my letters (the sound represented
by lowecase h with a bar looks like a turned "na" but without the ascender
in Kuraw, and the sound represented by uppercase n looks like a turned
"ka" in kuraw). I quite like the Rokbeigalmki script ;).


One other thing: I guess kuraw COULD be written alphabetically, as there
is that possibility, but you'd be using the vowel killer diacritic a lot,
which would lead to something unappealing to a Saalangal. I'm REALLY happy
with how kuraw looks in "type" and in hand writing, that i really do think
i'll use it for tattoos :).


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