This is a development of the SIGIL script (the 27th version) which shows some changes from the previous version. Articulations now sit above, to keep the inter-line channel less cluttered, and the text body is more compact.
Consonants
Consonants are still built simply by adding articulation modifiers to base locational glyphs. The bases have changed to accommodate the modifiers, which now sit above instead of below. The Q position is also now available.
The articulations attach in a very regular way, something like assembling from a ‘kitset’. The voiced plosive may attach directly to a following vowel-bowl.
The stop series of articulations attach to a reversed base, as before. The voiced stop may attach directly to a previous vowel-bowl. Again, the long-fricative tail may wrap around a stop to form an affricate ligature.
Vowels
Vowel points are much the same as before.
Vowel points sit upon voicing bowls. A closed bowl is for rounding. An unpointed bowl has default open-back vowels. For showing tone a raising tail is attached, to indicate that bowl has a high tone. The bowls in black (unpointed) are for devoiced /i/ and /u/ respectively.
Other symbols
Numerals 0-15 and punctuation (spacer, colon, comma, period, capitalizer) remain the same as before, with the same rationale.
Sample text
This is the Shakespeare transliteration again, for comparison with other versions of SIGIL.
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
