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Re: A taste of Meyadhew

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Thursday, March 27, 2003, 17:30
From: "Mau Rauszer" <maurauser@...>

> Adam Walker <carrajena@...> 2003.03.27. 06:03:51 -8h-kor írta: > > > Very Arabic. But some of your strokes look like they were drawn > > left-to-right rather than right-to-left. Maybe it's just my
imagination.
> > Like all Arabic-based scripts it is absolutely beautiful and absolutely > > incomprehensible.
> Yeah. It is a sorta mix of arabic letterforms with Tengwar diacritics and > vowel indicating rules.
That's pretty clever! I think Muslim Techians will use Arabic-Tengwar. But written right-to-left, and the letter forms represent almost the same sounds as Arabic, except "emphatic" consonants are now ejective.