Advice for Omyatloko
Advice for Omyatloko
I would like some advice, please. I have 351 glyphs but I know some them will rarely be used, and I realize I lack glyphs for words that are more common. So, I've been mapping my glyphs to the Kyōiku kanji in an effort to get basic, common words but I think I may be missing the mark.
Should I look for a list of common Hanzi/Kanji/Kanja or use some other guidepost? I had thought of using common Mayan glyphs or Egyptian hieroglyphs, but the resources are usually not very good. My goal is to have about 500 glyphs for fairly common words.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Should I look for a list of common Hanzi/Kanji/Kanja or use some other guidepost? I had thought of using common Mayan glyphs or Egyptian hieroglyphs, but the resources are usually not very good. My goal is to have about 500 glyphs for fairly common words.
Any and all help is appreciated.
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Re: Advice for Omyatloko
I'd say somewhere between Linear B (which has around 100 ideographs) and maybe third-grade Kyoiku Kanji (440) might be okay. It depends really on exactly on how exactly those glyphs are used. In Linear B, for example, they're used almost exclusively as ideograms or determinatives, while in Japanese they're used as... everything I think it might come down to a) whether the writing system is borrowed vs. native and b) whether the system tries to be phonetic or not (which then depends on the phonology of the language).masako wrote: ↑13 Oct 2018 04:58 I would like some advice, please. I have 351 glyphs but I know some them will rarely be used, and I realize I lack glyphs for words that are more common. So, I've been mapping my glyphs to the Kyōiku kanji in an effort to get basic, common words but I think I may be missing the mark.
Should I look for a list of common Hanzi/Kanji/Kanja or use some other guidepost? I had thought of using common Mayan glyphs or Egyptian hieroglyphs, but the resources are usually not very good. My goal is to have about 500 glyphs for fairly common words.
Any and all help is appreciated.
You can tell the same lie a thousand times,
But it never gets any more true,
So close your eyes once more and once more believe
That they all still believe in you.
Just one time.
But it never gets any more true,
So close your eyes once more and once more believe
That they all still believe in you.
Just one time.
Re: Advice for Omyatloko
It's inspired, but not borrowed.
Well, it's a mixed system; "The glyphs are logosyllabic, combining about 500 logograms (which represent whole words) and 220 syllabograms (which represent syllables). "
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Re: Advice for Omyatloko
What about using some glyphs both as a logogram and as a phonetic glyph for the initial syllable of the most basic word for the concept represented by the logogram?
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Re: Advice for Omyatloko
Your idea is a good one, however, I already have an entire (featural) syllabary. That means I'm not looking for syllables, but logograms, and I'd like to avoid ambiguity as much as possible between the two types of glyphs.
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in natlanguages, alphabets have tens signs, syllabaries hundred, logographies thousands...
How do you hack those limits to get your number of signs...
Featural in what sense...masako wrote:I already have an entire (featural) syllabary.
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This isn't entirely true. Sumerian Cuneiform only had 1,00-1,500 total graphemes. Akkadian used fewer, Assyrian fewer still. Hittite Cuneiform used only some 600 graphemes.
Re: Advice for Omyatloko
this does not contradict the average:
Around the twenties: alphabet
around the hundred: syllabary
around a thousand: logography...
Around the twenties: alphabet
around the hundred: syllabary
around a thousand: logography...
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It does contradict what you originally said which was that logographic require thousands of symbols. I don’t know about you, but I’d consider 600 pretty far from 1000 and much closer to masako’s goal of 500 glyphs.
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500 it's a bit limited for a purely logographic system ...
except to hack the system a bit ...
except to hack the system a bit ...
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I had seen it, but I can not see the articulation between the 500 purely logographic words and the rest of the lexicon ...
Is there any superposition, duplicates, or something ... (ditto for the featural stuff)
Is there any superposition, duplicates, or something ... (ditto for the featural stuff)
Re: Advice for Omyatloko
I'm not sure what exactly you're talking about.
There are glyphs for whole words/ideas/concepts, and there is a featural syllabary (i.e. vowel markers are designed to convey articulation of vowels, as well as palatalization or labialization, consonantal pre-nasalization and diphthongs are also indicated).
Check this:
I finished developing glyphs for family terminology and a novel way to render various relatives.
Using these glyphs:
These can be found on this page
You generate these terms:
Note the use of -ha (augmentative) and -hi (diminutive) to denote relative age. The "handwritten" versions of each example are syllables, not logographic.
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What i've understood: logograms are made by deformations of syllabic signs, and each compound of logograms makes meaning of a new word whose sound is a compound by reduction of the names of the compounded logograms...
In fact pronunciation is the basis of the writing, even logographic, by progressive deformations...
The featural thing come from hangul imports...
The whole stuf could be seen like a kind of amazing hangul mash-up...
In fact pronunciation is the basis of the writing, even logographic, by progressive deformations...
The featural thing come from hangul imports...
The whole stuf could be seen like a kind of amazing hangul mash-up...
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Re: Advice for Omyatloko
I'm not able to parse your thought-stream. Please take my appreciation for your attempt at participation and have a nice day.
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How is the handwritten style related to the block style? I can see some similarities, but the glyphs don't seem to correspond...
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Re: Advice for Omyatloko
In the examples above, the handwritten are the syllables and the grey glyphs are logograms.
https://i.imgur.com/hiVkIRK.png Hopefully this clears up some confusion.
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Re: Advice for Omyatloko
Ah, I see. Thank you!masako wrote: ↑20 Oct 2018 14:29 https://i.imgur.com/hiVkIRK.png Hopefully this clears up some confusion.
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Conlangs: Ronc Tyu | Buruya Nzaysa | Doayâu | Tmaśareʔ
Conlangs: Ronc Tyu | Buruya Nzaysa | Doayâu | Tmaśareʔ