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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "rodlox" <Babnol@h...> wrote: > --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@u...> wrote: > > Babnol Rodlox scripsit: > > > > > Hello; I'm new here. > > > > Glad to see you here, Rodlox! > > glad I am to be seen. Allow me to extend a welcome as well--though I've hardly been active here. > > Please, don't explain sounds with English (and other > > natlangs) examples. It's very ambiguous. > > sorry; I was using a website that taught Serbian, and an English- > Arabic dictionary. > > > Use IPA or any its > > ASCIIfication. > > *blank look* um, I'm new to this whole thing. could you say that > in English? IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet. It's a reliable way of writing pronunciations, not dependent on any particular language and therefore not susceptible to its changes. Check out <http://cassowary.free.fr/Linguistics/cxschart.png>. If you're not familiar with the IPA, you probably haven't learned much about phonetics, so you might want to browse the phonetics section of ConLangLinks <http://www.ling.su.se/lingonord/conlanglinks/>. > > > I'm already planning [slight] modification to the Arabic > > letters in > > > Dar-al-Mar as it is. > > > > If they're Muslims (and indeed they are), they would NEVER > > dare to disfigure sacred letters used in the Qur'an. > > what I thought was that they'd have Quranic Arabic script, and > they'd also have this concultural script. Would the script show influences from the Greco-Roman script family? If you've gotten it down to fifty or so, you've removed a lot, apparently. > yeah, I was considering - even before I started Dar-al-Mar - asking > you if I could look at Rumiya. No need to ask, I'm pretty sure. Conlangers are liberal with their creations, generally; if it's online and unmarked, there's a good chance it's copylefted. Best to ask if you want to modify it, but other than that, asking is unnecessary. It massages the creator's ego, though ;)