Re: New Script for Ok (Edh coo zoo oc)

Christophe Grandsire sikyal:

> En réponse à Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>:
>
> >
> >         Ah, then you have not seen Oriya's script, which has been
> > described (quite
> > accurately, IMO) as a "parade of bald heads."
> >         http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oriya.htm
> >         :Peter
> >
>
> Or Burmese (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/burmese.htm), which is in my
> opinion the champion of circleness ;))) (and you should look closely at how
> they write some vowels - it's an abugida -, especially the o-macron. To write
> it on a consonant, you have to add a sign before the consonant, a sign after
> the consonant and a diacritic over the consonant!).
Circles indeed.  Wow--I just bookmarked this site, so that I can use it to
stare at all of those glorious scripts and come up with ideas for my own.
Absolutely amazing.

But what's so odd about writing a vowel before, above, and after the
consonant?  It seems like half of the vowels in Thai are written that way.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/

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