Calligraphy

[Miatato]

Well, I was toying with an alphabetic writing system I thought I'd scan and upload... It has absolutely no merit whatsoever, but I thought it would be amusing, as every character is composed of a stick man in a particular position for that sound. It has a voicing mark, so p and b would look alike, except for a tiny speech bubble that appears over the head of the 'b' stick man.

Yeah. I need more sleep.

[Matthew Turnbull]

yeah, it'll still be better than copy pasting from GIMP! :p

[alavda-isere]

[Matthew Turnbull]

[kadani]

[alexfink]

[alexfink]

[Matthew Turnbull]

I wanted all of the ten vowel graphemes to be unique, I realize that perhaps this wasn't too clear because I chose the versions with dots because I was working with GIMP and not a font so it was comparatively laborious to produce the forms.

I paired m and ng because they sound so similar and I figured that it would be sorta naturalistic, but n and l I paired on the loose basis that they're both alveolar (or dental, no one really hashed that out yet). Anyhow paring n and l cuts down on one form for the writing system, thereby representing 23 phonemes with only 19 letters, instead of 20. No particular reason except to make the system easier for the font and easier to learn by one letter.

I have no reason to disagree with not pairing n with l, but I personally would argue for the m ng pairing, because of how similar they sound to me. Unpairing them would result in 21 letters, for 23 phonemes, so still more than 100% compact so I could deal.

[kadani]

I am indifferent in the question whether they should be paired, but if not, give them 2 distinctive shapes.

[Miatato]

I am reworking my stick men a little bit, but I should post those in the next couple of days. I really like what's been posted so far. It's all so nice and so professional looking... and I actually suck at this kind of design, so I am pretty grateful.