scripts

From: David Cake <davidc_at_cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 18:27:16 -0800


to add to Peters quite correct synopsis
>The Dara Happan script is alphabetic.
	and fully documented in the Fortunate Succession.
	I recently fiddled with a Font creation program with a view to
creating a proper font for all this, but it may be a while yet.

>The Pelandan script
>is ideogrammic although it shares similarities with the Dara
>Happan script.

>AFAIK the Western Script is alphabetic.

        Though Western script is supposed to be the written version of several languages that are mutually unintelligible in the spoken form, but not in the written. This (and that the runes are allegedly originally western) has led some people to speculate that it is ideogrammatic, like Chinese (which is the only example I can think of of a mutually intelligible written form between mutually unintelligible spoken languages). Any thoughts, anyone?

        Cheers

                David


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