At 8:51 PM -0700 19/6/11, David Dunham wrote:
> > The Malkioni are said to have a uniform script that everybody can use
>> even if they don't speak the same language (comparisons with Latin or
>> Arabic have been made). I
>
>FWIW, that always makes me think of Chinese -- supposedly when
>people who speak mutually unintelligible dialects meet, they draw
>ideograms in their palms with their fingers.
>
>But this could speak to runes, and their inherent magic.
I think Chinese Kanji is a reasonably good analogy with
Western script, especially given the runic associations would imply
that Western script generally has a character corresponding to a
concept, rather than a character roughly corresponding to a phoneme
like Latin scripts.
Cheers
David