[lostlangs] Re: Hairo Script Brainstorming

Christian Thalmann wrote:
> OK, I've started assigning letters to phonemes now.  It's
> vaguely featural and reminds me too much of Tengwar.  Seems
> like Tolkien wasn't too original after all, ripping off his
> Elven alphabets from ancient inscriptions found in Central
> Europe...  ;-)
>
>     http://www.cinga.ch/reference/alphabet.jpg
While I like the look, I didn't think, as a rule, Runes were allowed to
have both vertical and horizontal lines. Something about engraving into
wood, I understand.

For instance, note the absence of horizontal lines in Hungarian Runes:
<http://www.omniglot.com/writing/hungarian_runes.htm>, Orkhon/Turkic
Runes: <http://www.omniglot.com/writing/orkhon.htm>, and Germanic runes:
<http://www.omniglot.com/writing/runic.htm>.

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