Re: Kuraw - Handwritten

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>No, you wouldn't have to.  Once the vowel diacritics become "letters" in
>their own write ;-), the consonant chars. would lose their intrinsic
>vowel.
>This is attested in the history of the Kash script, which started out
>exactly like Kuraw. So from an original state of e.g. "l-o p(a) t-i"
>'lopati' vs. "l-o p(a) t\" 'lopat', you might pass thru a stage
>"l-o-p-a-t-i" vs. "l-o-p-a-t\", but eventually people would figure out
>that
>the killer is no longer necessary.  You might have to introduce w/y
>symbols
>to take care of situations like "kuraw" written k-u-r-(aw) vs. suffixed
>?kurawi, but maybe not.
>
Oooh, you have a point ;). I could see under some future influence
(perhaps an infiltration of a language that uses an alphabet, like
English), the Saalangal eventually getting rid of the vowel diacritics,
and using the glyphs themselves. Kuraw does have w/y glyphs though. To
handle situations like k-u-r-aw, i could see them modifying the "combined"
glyphs for the diphthongs into a single character (these are basically the
diphthong's initial vowel, plus the actual diacritic for the diphthong).

But, for now, i prefer to script to remain as an alphasyllabary. It's
great to ponder such things though ;) (IMHO, there are not enough
con-alphasyllabaries, most seem to be alphabets)

>Kash incidentally still harks back to the old syllabary in abbreviations:
> L
>K Ho e.g. stands for "Landiñ Kaçili Holunda" 'Bank of the Holundan
>People'.
I think i'm going to have to introduce a special glyph diacritic to denote
a group of glyphs are standing as an abbreviation.

>
>
>A while back there was a young guy at my gym who, from a distance and
>without my glasses, seemed to have an interesting band-tattoo on his
>biceps.
>Not your usual barbed wire or tribal.  As I squinted and moved closer, it
>was clearly a script of some sort; it began to look like Devanagari, but
>when I finally got close it was Hebrew, enclosed in some baroque
>squiggles,
>and he said it was the word for "power".  I almost said "Funny, you don't
>look Jewish" but thought better of it.  Given the ethnic background of
>almost everyone in Holland MI., far more likely he could be a Dutch
>Reformed
>seminarian.......
Hehehe, well more power to him I say :). I actually found a picture at
bmezine.com (DONT go there if nudity, or genital piercings shock you, or
youre at work and easily caught :)) of an interesting tattoo (on a very
muscular guy no less). The guy had something written in "agelic hebrew".
Here is the picture (it's on the guy's arm, so it's safe to look at :)):

http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/990215/high/ezra1.jpg



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