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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "dhasenan" <faceloran@j...> wrote: > > glad I am to be seen. > > Allow me to extend a welcome as well- hi and hello there. >-though I've hardly been active here. that's okay; we forgive you. :) > > *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. ahh, okay; thanks! > 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, I was learning a second language not long before joining ConCulture egroup. > so you might want to browse the phonetics section of > ConLangLinks <http://www.ling.su.se/lingonord/conlanglinks/>. thank you for the links; heading there right after I post this. > > 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? probably so...including the habit of writing each letter individually (rather than linking them together), so I'd considered using the Isolated form of the Arabic letters. > If you've gotten it down to fifty or so, you've removed a lot, > apparently. I counted first the vowels and consonants which overlapped between the two languages, then I added the ones that didn't overlap. so, yeah, I guess I did. > > 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, I didn't want to modify it; I just didn't know where it was. > but > other than that, asking is unnecessary. It massages the creator's ego, > though ;) always a good thing.