This is another easily hand-written, phonetically constructed alphabet, like my other Phonological Cyphers. It is not as strictly or as regularly assembled as many of those, but there is still a strong featural relationship between most phonetically-related glyphs. Here there is a more natural grouping of shapes and geometries – as can be found in many natural language scripts – where phonetic features are shared with one other, or a few, rather than with all relevant glyphs.
The origin of the script was a drawing of five glyphs:and there was a kind of challenge to see how a full script could be developed from them; as if they were fragments of a lost script, that inspired an illiterate tribe to develop an alphabet.
Consonants
The main feature of this script is a round bead drawn at the end of some strokes, similar to that found in Thai and Lao writing. The relative bead position indicates, in most cases, the region of articulation. Voiced consonants often have a bar or extra stroke. The semivowels /w/ and /j/ are derived from the vowels /u/ and /i/ (see below). Nasals have a roof and a top-right bead.
Vowels
The vowel space is roughly front-back, unrounded-rounded, with three degrees of closeness. There is an alternative version for the most-open vowels. There is also a nasalisation suffix.
Example
This is the Shakespeare transliteration again, for comparison with other scripts’ examples.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
