Re: [lojban] Lojban neography

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

The displayed sample lacks /y/.  Since the
prinmciples for vowel construction are not clear,
I have no suggestion how that might go.

--- Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net> wrote:

> coi rodo,
>     A couple of years ago I read of Eric S.
> Raymond's Tengwar orthography for Lojban
>
(http://www.catb.org/~esr/tengwar/lojban-tengwar.html)
> and it got me thinking about Lojban alphabets.
> I had an idea which I've been working on for a
> couple of years, to design an alphabet along
> certain principles:
> 1. Each word would be written without the pen
> leaving the page; no dotting i's or crossing
> t's. A gap in the line would represent the
> period character, which is a pause.
> 2. Unlike cursive, the baseline would be in the
> vertical center instead of at the bottom, so
> that voiced consonants and vowels would tend to
> be descenders, and unvoiced consonants would
> tend to be ascenders.
> 3. Voiced and unvoiced equivalent sounds would
> be upside-down versions of the same character.
> 4. Labial plosives resemble a lip, dental
> plosives resemble a tooth, m and n resemble a
> pair of nostrils, and so on. The resemblance is
> vague and evocative rather than literal of
> course, given the quick simplicity necessary
> for an alphabet.
>     I gave serious thought to the issue of
> making characters to represent very common
> words, the way that we have ampersand, number
> sign, and the "at" sign in English.
> Specifically I would like there to be
> characters for {le}, {lo}, {la}, {mi}, {do},
> {cu}, {nu}. and {gi'e}. These can be added at a
> later date.
>     Of course it's not necessary to make the
> alphabet official in the canon, but it seems
> fun to me to have it available. It would be
> nice to have a page on the wiki for those who
> would enjoy tinkering with such a project. Here
> is a link to the alphabet:
>
http://www.geocities.com/nemorathwald/lojban_alphabet.jpg
>     Please try writing sentences in it and help
> me find places where two characters (that can
> follow each other legally in Lojban) would
> appear misleading together. When it has
> survived such a trial I will submit it to the
> neography section of www.Langmaker.com.
> -epkat
> 
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