Re: Colored Scripts

En réponse à Heather Rice <florarroz@...>:

>
> Really, its very VERY impractical.  It takes a lot of
> time just to write one word.  So, today, I invented
> another script.  Maybe I should say stole.  Its really
> the greek alphabet adapted to my own use.  I like the
> greek script.
>
Me too :)) . The writings of Astou (the language of the Dhastem, a people
living more than 2 millenia ago on a continent in the middle of the Atlantic
Ocean) that have survived to this day are written with an adaptation of the
Greek alphabet (or maybe a contemporary borrowing from Phoenician, since it
uses the letters in very different ways, to the point that omega there stands
for a consonant: /Z/ :)) ). Of course, this way of borrowing seems a little
strange, since the Dhastem were THE civilisation at that time (well, on that
parallel Earth at least :))) ), but since little is known about the Dhastem on
their continent (which they called Ulda bi Dhaotid be: the Island of the
Dhaotid, Dhaotid being the name they gave themselves to their civilisation),
and all those writings are found in places which correspond now to Greece and
Cyprus (and a little to former Yugoslavia, Italia and Turkey), a hypothesis has
been given that this script was not used by the Dhastem themselves, but by
other people when in contact with Dhastem. It seems to fit with the fact that
the Dhastem accepted contact with other people only when they spoke Astou to
them.

Of course, what is known about the Dhastem is highly speculative and some
people have even dismissed it as a hoax (despite some, but rare, convincing
third party evidence).

I still have to share with the list the grammatical features of Astou. The
problem is that I'm still looking for a good Roman transliteration (the words
I've given now are not well transliterated. They lack the accent marks for
instance).

Christophe.

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