Re: Written Western

From: Julian Lord <jlord_at_free.fr>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:36:46 +0200


Trotsky :

> ...the West has
> one written script that everyone can understand regardless of the
> Western language they happen to speak. The clear implication of this
> (IMO) is a logographic script, but one can certainly interpret at as the
> rather more interesting option of the written and spoken languages not
> actually being the same.

>From Greg's intervention, it actually looks like it's a combination of "ordinary"
script and Runes (aka logograms).

I'd hazard that it's an alphabetic script including the occasional logogram.

So I guess we're talking about a Greek (Koinč), Latin, or Arab base here, with Gloranthan Runes added to the mix.

Julian Lord

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