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Re: [lostlangs] Re: Hairo Script Brainstorming

From:Barry Garcia <madyaas@...>
Date:Sunday, July 4, 2004, 11:33
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 10:44:23 -0000, Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:

> > Ah, good points, everyone. Hairo was mainly found carved in > stone, where grain doesn't matter, embossed in metal, and > later written with brush and pen. I also envisaged a style > of writing in wood where one would drive a metal edge into > the material with a hammer. I wonder whether that wouldn't > split the wood too much, though. >
Depends on the type of wood and how hard you drive the wedge in ;). Stone is easier to carve curved lines, but i believe the burmese script descends from a square form of the script, which later evolved into the regularly circular script. The one example of copperplate writing from the Philippines, the Laguna copperplate inscription (which is apparently not a forgery, last i read), was written by hammering small indentations into the copper using an iron stylus and hammer. Each letter is a series of indentations. I can only imagine how long that took, since the script is pretty long (and in kawi script).