Re: Non-linear / full-2d writing systems?

On 5/5/05, Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote: 
> 
> By analogy, it's at least possible to imagine an
> exclusively written language.
> 
Maybe this is too simple a thought, but I'd say both of my conlangs are 
written languages, as I don't speak either, and haven't tried memorizing 
them. Granted, they CAN be spoke, but geneally they aren't.
 I suppose however, that for a language to be visual only, your lexicon 
would have to be ideographic as someone else said. I'm thinking you'd have 
to create symbols for each function word, root, etc. A simple method would 
be to do affixing or maybe create something isolating instead (because 
obviously you couldn't do anything sound based (duh). You could also create 
semantically related words by altering the form of a base word/root.
 Ahh, but would it work? I think so. 


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